Author Topic: Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address (Read 639 times)

SemperFi · August 02, 2014, 04:51:41 am

Hello,

Case : The postal services are sending us back mailings due to uncorrect addresses or people moved away without telling us the new address. Consequently data is incorrect in Civi.

Need : Right now I can't find a way to record in CiviCRM an information saying "This address is incorrect" in the contacts' addresses block.

Suggestion : Do you think it could be possible to add a "Status" field for each declared address to manage this data.
Values could be for example "Not known at this address"; "Address OK"(by default)... and manage as customized list of options.

Thanks

Eileen · August 03, 2014, 08:48:33 pm

You can add custom fields to addresses - we've done this to record address status in the past

petednz · August 03, 2014, 10:33:38 pm

or you can add new Location types for 'gone no address'

so you know that that particular address was their GNA

and add their new one if/when you get it

SemperFi · August 05, 2014, 09:07:41 am

Thanks for your response. I'd rather use a custom field, it suits perfectly the need, except that if we extract the data from the db, addresses and status will be in 2 different tables, and it will require a quick vlookup - but's ok !!
Thanks this is great.

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Author Topic: Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address (Read 639 times)

SemperFi

Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address

Eileen

Re: Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address

petednz

Re: Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address

SemperFi

Re: Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address