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Re: Can't find reason for 400 error in SKY API call
@Matt Watson
generally, you get 400 for issue with the JSON body, that's something you want to check, for example, in your run, log the JSON you were passing to the API and then see if there's any issue with it by using JSON validating tool
Re: Letters in my config tab
Miki, it looks like many of your letters are (or should be) also Inactive? We, also, have a “monstrous” list of Letters, but only about 12 of them are Active. Anymore, I like to keep the letter names generic so you can use them year after year: so instead of “2020 Spring Appeal”, we just name it “Spring Appeal” and update the content every year. That way we don't have a growing list – because once a letter type lives on a gift record, you can never delete it unless you also delete the letter code from the gift record.
It would be nice of letter codes had a “Cleanup” function like Tables do, so that you can just combine multiple letter types into one archival code.
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How do I transfer a custom field from the main page to the 'Custom Fields' section under Education?
Re: Soft Credits for Multiple Champions – How Do You Handle It?
In case anyone finds this in the future, I followed Option 4 on this guide:
Re: Merging Tributes and Viewing Tribute Gifts in Raiser's Edge NXT Webview
@Julie Fournier - @Elizabeth Johnson posted a great response to the release announcement on the “What's New” blog post from last week. That may answer some of your questions.
Re: Query for odd or even graduation/class of year
@Karen Diener Good question. I don't know.
One of 3 very different criteria listed on request form for a mailing solicitation to go in August. Seems very odd to me. Now that I've figured out a fairly painless way to pull odd years I haven't asked. As I tend to question a lot of their things I'm really trying to only question when I makes a difference to the actual data I pull. LOL
Re: Query for odd or even graduation/class of year
@Dan Snyder If I were to go the excel route that's what I was thinking of - like that fill the series/pattern.
I'm going with @Sara Barnaby suggestion - was 5 quick criteria. Thanks for that - don't know that I've used ‘like’ in that way. Great idea.
Re: Query for odd or even graduation/class of year
@Elizabeth Johnson and @JoAnn Strommen This is what I would likely do and even if you don't have them in Excel there is a trick I like to use for this. If you type the first 3 odd class years (ex. 1951, 1953, 1955) in their own cell (oldest to newest), select those three fields, then in the bottom right corner of the bottom most cell once your cursor turns to a + symbol, click and hold and pull that list down and it will fill them in as odd numbers since that is the pattern you gave Excel to follow. Then all you have to do is pull down until you get to 2023 or 2025.
Re: Has anyone made a connection with Rasier's Edge NXT API using Copy Activity in Data Flow In fabrics?
@Spring Velazquez Yes, please do! liz_dixon-eversole@milton.edu