No constituent "profession" selection in Raiser's Edge NXT?

Maggie Lamb
Maggie Lamb
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We have always tracked alumnae by professional categories, such as engineering and medicine, in our database. However, NXT does not provide a way to assign a profession category within organization relationships, and that functionality is important to our work. Oddly enough, we can still query on it from the professions added in database view.

When will this be addressed?

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  • Joe Moretti
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    Not only is there no profession category, there is no industry category as well. In fact, This is the problem with RE NXT, many things in Database View have not carried over to RE NXT.. You are also correct that many orgs track the profession category and some track the industry.

  • JoAnn Strommen
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    I agree these are needed fields. I'm asked to pull alum that work in a specific industry. Have one such request on my desk right now.

    Like @Joe Moretti and others, I don't understand why some data points were carried over and others have not been and need to be added now. Going back and forth between web view and db view is frustrating. And leaves those who only work in NXT in the dark as they do not have the info.

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