Change Prefix and Suffix fields to a dropdown

Brandon Stein
Brandon Stein
Tenth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
in Core

I just finished cleaning up the Titles and Suffixes of all users in our database. It's amazing the data people will put in these free text fields. Please vote for this idea on the ideabank to make Prefix and Suffix a dropdown list to control what can be added in these fields.

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  • Jess Moxsky
    Jess Moxsky
    Kudos 5 Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper Participant

    This is an excellent idea! In Raiser's Edge, prefix and suffix can be configured as table values and selected from a dropdown specifically to avoid this kind of thing. I do want to note that Prefix is a field that will sync from K12 to RE with ConnectRE and will overwrite what is in Raiser's Edge, so this idea seems imperative for organizations using this integration especially.

    I'm constantly surprised/confused by the way data seems to be internally structured in the K12 system but hopefully ideas like this can continue to improve things!

  • Lauren Henderson
    Lauren Henderson Community All-Star
    Kudos 5 Fourth Anniversary 2026 Spring PUB Education Management Solutions for K-12 Schools bbcon 2025 Attendee Badge

    YES! Coming from RE to core, I appreciate how lovely RE is in the way it manages data and specific fields. I understand that core was built completely differently and blackbaud is working hard to get the systems to connect better. I will vote for this idea again if I haven't already! We have ConnectRE so anything that helps to standardize data is my friend.

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