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Adriel Hampton responded to Customizable fields 2013-05-15 14:27:07 -0700

Customizable fields

I would be helpful to have a few fields that nation-admins could customize. There are some specific actions/roles I'd like users to be able to opt-in to (like yard signs, hosting a coffee, offering to publicly support a campaign) on a single form.

Right now, I don't see how I could do that without embedding a Google form and then periodically importing records with the fields as tags. I lose a lot of other functionality though if I have to do that.

Official response from Adriel Hampton

Custom fields are live as part of our Enterprise edition. Here's how they work. If you need to turn them on, contact your organizer or just drop us an email.


Austin Linford tagged Scott Garrison's Batch de-duping with Important 2011-07-17 22:24:52 -0700

Batch de-duping

Big fan of the transparent data-driven de-duping ("Is this a duplicate? The ID of the person to merge into" field on each record).

Since the merge process starts by relating record IDs, it seems possible to leverage that into batch deduping by loading a two column file containing "current record ID of a duplicate" and "the ID of the person to merge into".

I can see where you might prefer in the long-run to develop internal tools for matching and batch de-duping. But the capability to export, then use external matching tools, and then load in the results would be great to have in the meantime.


Ron Robinson tagged Scott Garrison's Better Call Sheets with Useful 2011-05-23 00:28:10 -0700

Better Call Sheets

For the old-school clients, who call from paper call sheets: I need one-page-per-prospect call sheets.