New greeting and addressee fields

[dharmatech]

The new greeting and addressee fields are working great so far. I just found one issue.  When I create new contacts, the default greetings and addressee are set appropriately.

But I just exported all contacts from the sandbox and most of them don't have greetings/addressee filled out. Is this because this sample data set was already there and you upgraded sandbox to 3.0? I guess I'm concerned there may be an upgrade issue here where it only sets the default if you create a new one or edit an existing record.

Do you see what I'm asking?

Thanks
Tony

[dharmatech]

I think this wiki page answers my question. http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMUPCOMING/Update+Greetings+and+Address+Data+for+Contacts

Can someone in the know confirm that?

My question was basically how to assign default greeting/addressee values to contacts after an upgrade and it looks like there is a script to do this which is great.

Thanks
Tony

[Yashodha Chaku]

Tony :

You would want to run the script for updating greeting and addressee fields.
For details, refer http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4852

-Yashodha

[dharmatech]

Great. Thanks for clarifying Yashoda.

Tony