I realize I work where I do by choice, but sometimes you get something in the old inbox that touches some deep-down hunter-gather part of you that realizes that you essentially are paid to move pixels and other meaningless crap around-here's a prime example, this actually made my jaded ass laugh out loud-I'm going to try and withhold some names to make it a little bit less fireable to post this, but I'm not too worried about it:
Here's one we'll have a hard time remembering but I hope we do.
I've discovered that write offs need to have the same attributes as the gift if we want them to count properly in gift summary reports when we are pulling pledges based on a gift attribute.
For example, we have many pledges with the Oregon Opportunity Gift attribute. Some of these have been completely or partially written off. When I run an export that asks for a constituent giving summary based on a query of all gifts with the Oregon Opportunity gift attribute the summary counts the whole pledge in the total even though all or part of it was written off. The reason is that the associated write off does not have the attribute and so is not included as a gift in the query. When I add the attribute to the write off the summary calculates properly by adding in the pledge but then subtracting the write off.
Long story short: please add the same set of attributes to write offs that exist on the pledge you are writing off.
[Name Withheld] or [Name Withheld] - if you can find a way to query on Oregon Opportunity coded gifts that have write offs without the attribute it would be much appreciated. I found and dealt with several on some of our Board members records but haven't gone looking for others. I've also filed a case with [Software Company] but their response was that they could not duplicate the issue (even though it was listed as a known issue). I'll continue to work with them.
We can discuss further if you have any questions or need more info.
[Name Withheld]
Hahhahahaha! Totally awesome. I feel like I work in one of those old-timey delis where all the sandwich orders are in code-you know like a Roast Beef on Rye is "Brown Dirt, keep it mooin'" or whatever.
Mankind evolved his way out of the primordial ooze, managed to make it through thousands of years of dumb-ass crap like slavery, colonization, religious wars, two world wars, a 40-year period with imminent nuclear Armageddon, the greenhouse effect, and now we're going to get to get done in by birds? I love birds! I don't think I can bring myself to hate birds. Maybe if it was "raccoon influenza" I'd be a little more enraged, all I can think about now is "well, we did slaughter all the passenger pigeons, after all..." Also, the Dodo, same deal.
