Add Constituents: Getting Individuals And Organizations In The Door
In the Community discussion threads, Stephanie Crawley mentioned her "very most favoritest thing about RE NXT" is adding a constituent. On that note, let's look at how you add new individuals and organizations in the web view!
As Stephanie mentions, you can add constituents in the database view, in a robust, "multiple-tab-have-to-remember-all-the-different-places-I-need-to-remember-to-fill-in-way." On the flip side, when you add a constituent in the web view, it's streamlined to just the few elements required to save your relationship with them.
To add a constituent, from Home, select Add constituent, choose whether to add an individual or an organization, and then save their key details:
As Stephanie mentions, you can add constituents in the database view, in a robust, "multiple-tab-have-to-remember-all-the-different-places-I-need-to-remember-to-fill-in-way." On the flip side, when you add a constituent in the web view, it's streamlined to just the few elements required to save your relationship with them.To add a constituent, from Home, select Add constituent, choose whether to add an individual or an organization, and then save their key details:
- Name (at a minimum). For an individual, this can include their title, suffix, and middle name.
- For an individual, demographics such as gender and date of birth
- Contact information, including their mailing address, phone number, email address, and online presence
- Constituent codes, to indicate their affiliations with your organization
- For an individual, the primary addressee and salutation to use in their communications
- The fundraisers assigned to help cultivate your relationship with them
- Any notes, actions, and — with Prospect Research Management — opportunities to track interactions and efforts to cultivate the relationship
- A profile picture, to help personalize the relationship and ease identification for in-person interactions
- A summary note, for a quick, at-a-glance synopsis of important information about them and your relationship
- Their communication preferences or rules of contact, such as to not call after 8:00 p.m.
- Any aliases and other name formats for communications
- Attachments — such as photographs or online content — to help track and archive your relationship
- Their relationships with others, such as friends, family, and employers
- With Prospect Research Management, their prospect status and classification, as well as any financial information
- Custom fields for other, specialized information your organization tracks about constituents
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Comments
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This is great Steve. I realise there are issues with implementing the RE > Config >Fields > required settings across NXT, because you don't have all fields exposed yet, but surely it would be good to work on an interim measure. You are creating a massive headache for DBAs! We have to create queries to monitor data entry to ensure data integrity, when there is a perfectly good system put in place by Blackbaud to do just that!0
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Ditto what Mergen Peries said! It comes across as such a low priority for Blackbaud. It's never mentioned on any of the roadmaps.0
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