[Ldsoss] Re: how MLS doesn't work well for you, and how you wish it worked

[Steve Cottrell]

I'm no developer, just an interested user. (The request for MLS feedback got
me to dust down the keyboard.)

Here's my MLS wish list. Some of these I keep thinking will be fixed in the
release, but as they haven't yet and I'm now in a third year of using this
software which despite its few shortcomings has been ultimately very useful.


   - A couple of releases back I noticed that the Membership.csv export
   now has a mismatch between the data and the header. The third header field
   is "Preferred Name", but the data goes straight from "Full Name" to "MRN"
   - If there could be an additional field in the Membership.csv export I
   liked to see "Sealed Date" we have baptism, confirmation, endowed and sealed
   date is in the PalmIndividual.csv - at the moment I extract it using a
   vlookup on the MRN
   - Why can't each record have it's own email address. The way things
   work change it for one individual and the whole household gets the same
   change!
   - Same query for phone number. Many people have their own mobile
   phones. I could understand if phone 1 was a household phone, but why not let
   phone 2 be specific to the individual
   - Be able to assign Geo Codes based on rules which query the Postal
   Code field.

Thanks

....Steve

On 24/11/06, Ben Galbraith <junk at galbraiths.org> wrote:
>
>
> And please, keep the feedback coming in terms of how MLS doesn't work
> well for you, and how you wish it worked. The MLS team is constantly
> listening to these issues and addressing them as best they can.
>
> Best,
>
> Ben
>
>
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