Author Topic: How create a contact record for the living dead (Read 537 times)

SarahG (FountainTribe) · October 31, 2013, 09:53:09 am

I am trying to create a contact record, but in the "demographics" section I can only record someone as "deceased" or not. How can I expand the options to mark someone as a member of of the living dead? Is there an admin option like there is for gender options? Or is there a hook I can implement?

xavier · October 31, 2013, 09:57:57 am

I'm not sure I want to ask it, but why would you want to do that?

More importantly, how far away from me do you constituents "live"?

Coleman Watts · October 31, 2013, 10:10:52 am

Currently there is no UI for this - I think there was a concern about creating "zombie" processes on the server.
Perhaps a contact sub-type plus custom field tab would do it for you. So in your custom fields you could collect information such as:

Date deceased
Date reanimated
Eats flesh (y/n)

Also in case your campaign "goes viral" you could use relationship types to track things like

Bit <-> Bitten By
Hunter of <-> Hunted by

I think you'll find CiviCRM to be a robust and flexible solution for all your undead relationship management needs.

SarahG (FountainTribe) · October 31, 2013, 10:35:00 am

I like the suggestion about using a contact sub-type and custom fields to track the living dead, undead, etc. Question: deceased contacts currently are automatically excluded from mailing labels and mass emails. How would this work for the living dead, undead, etc?

BTW: Happy Halloween!

-Sarah Gladstone

tonymazz · November 01, 2013, 08:02:47 am

I'd be interested in doing some work on this as I'm currently working on deploying civi for a few political campaigns. I feel we're behind the ball on this, as they're able to get the dead to actually turn out and vote

hook_civicrm_BRAAIINNZ()

Coleman Watts · November 01, 2013, 10:27:20 am

In my experience the open and click-through rate for mass emails to the undead is quite poor, although with direct mail you can expect to have a fairly solid bite-through rate. I think SMS is really the way to go - every undead person I know is pretty obsessed with their cell phone. Also check out the new chained SMS feature - works well even for the chained-up living dead.

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