Member Information and Communication Enhancements

  • Corrected issue with processing address records associated to the entire family that were encountered when a member has an attached address, but no preferred address. 
  • Modified programs to ensure that the system is always validating an organizational member as an organization by looking for a value of ‘O' rather than the previous version 5 value of a ‘C'.
  • Modified all reports to ensure that address and phone information are retrieved from the new version 6 address and phone files.
  • Enhanced the member search panels to allow for searches on hyphenated names such as a last name of White-Fields.
  • Enhanced the initial member search panel to display the working database environment
  • Corrected the address entry/update panel for a member to correctly retrieve the city and state information when a zip code is entered and address certification is turned off.
  • Developed program to set the birth date of all members to a value of 1/1/0001 where the member's birth date is current set to a date earlier than 1/1/1890.  The member add and update process were modified in a previous version to prevent birth dates prior to 1/1/1890 from being specified, but the existing bad dates had never been corrected.  These invalid birth dates would cause other processes that perform age calculations to fail such as the building of program statistics datamart.
  • Complete rewrite of the label printing process
    • Totally new system that replaces the existing System 36 process.
    • Two step process. Create mail list work file, then print.
    • Templates are used from the Query Locator.
    • System table file controls file and library naming conventions.
    • Automatically checks/eliminates “Hidden” and “Deceased” records.
    • Check “OK to Solicit” flag.
    • New “Work with Mailing List Files” built into application.
    • Allows a user to select, delete, display or email the mail list work file.