BBNC - Deceased Spouses

Tom Klingman

A BBNC member can change their own status to deceased on their profile page (if that field is included), but they can't change their spouse's.


At least as far as I can tell.


And there is no way to display a spouse's deceased status on a BBNC page using the spouse deceased field.


We'd like to publish pages that contain a member's name and their spouse as in:


John Smith, '97 (Mary Smith)

123 Main St., Ithaca, NY  14850

jsmith@gmail.com


Mary is deceased, but you wouldn't know! (We, of course, are not going to remove Mary from the constituent's record!)


John may get an email or note from a fellow member who innocently asks: "How is Mary?"


The hack we are thinking of using is to direct BBNC members to prefix their spouse's first name with an "*" to indicate if deceased - as in:


(*Mary Smith)


If your organization faces a similar problem, how are you handling?


Is there another forum in which BBNC feature requests can be posted?


Thanks, 


Tom