The Financial Edge Patch 10 and The Raiser's Edge version 7.95

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If your Raiser’s Edge database is integrated with The Financial Edge, and your database is not hosted by Blackbaud, we strongly encourage you to review the following information with all parties involved in your update process before updating to RE version 7.95 or FE version 7.87, patch 10.

Note: If your database is hosted by Blackbaud, the following steps are not required.


If you are only posting from Raiser's Edge to Financial Edge, it is still RECOMMENDED that you updated both versions.  The posting from Raiser's Edge to Financial Edge is not disabled though, so posting is possible on previous versions of Raiser's edge.  Due to the changes in Raiser's Edge 7.95, Financial Edge will only be testing new versions and patches against this version.  If any issues are found when posting, you will be required to update to Raiser's Edge 7.95 at that point to resolve the issues.

In order to continue using Integration with EE/BBSIS version 7.87, patch 10, your RE database will need to be updated to version 7.95. RE 7.95 also requires FE verion 7.87, patch 9 or higher for Integration. In other words, if you update one database, you must also update the other.

RE 7.95 contains major changes to the database structure for contact information on constituent records. There are a few tasks we recommend completing in order to prepare for the update in regard to Integration, Pivot reports, phone types, custom reports and other features of RE. The RE preparation checklist, along with webinars and other FAQs are located on our 7.95 Release page.

Along with the preparation checklist, we strongly encourage you to review our New Features Guide and resources on our 7.95 release page. We do have bi-weekly webinars scheduled that we recommend users attend to learn about the update and how to prepare. A recording of this webinar is also available here.


The structural changes in RE 7.95 also impact The Education Edge/Student Billing when the databases are integrated. Please note the following:
  • EE/FE/BBSIS 7.87, patch 10 requires RE 7.95 for Integration. RE 7.95 requires EE/FE/BBSIS 7.87, patch 9 or higher
  • Contact sharing will be removed from the EE/FE/BBSIS database when integrated with RE
  • Contacts marked Inactive in RE during the update to 7.95 will be removed from EE during synchronization
If you use Education Edge, Student Billing, or Blackbaud Student Information System data for this update, it is imperative that you review and follow the steps in How to prepare for the update from Raiser’s Edge version 7.93 to 7.95 when integrated with Education Edge.
News ARCHIVED | Financial Edge® Tips and Tricks 12/21/2015 3:42pm EST

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