At 3:23 PM +0000 12/7/00, Nellie Pennington wrote:
>Ideally, I'd like a way to keep track of the dates a student attended, and
>to keep track of current students & parents as well as alumni students and
>their parents. It's not clear to me what the best way is.
>
>Here are a few options I've thought of:
>
>1) Keep track of a person's current status by using Issue2. This seems
>good because people often have multiple roles: parent, board member,
>teacher, etc. Then we could use the memo field to note dates.
>
>2) Keep track of years of attendance, etc. by setting up issues or
>affiliations for each year, e.g., "S1999" for student in 1999. The list
>could be kept to "current" affiliations, but the old affiliations would
>still be stored and presumably could be searched.
>
>3) Set up custom fields for enrollment dates/years.
>
Seems to me any of these options would work. They all do pretty much
the same thing, so I don't see a preference. You could easily create
a new field with a value list, and place it on a layout to get just
what you want. Maybe someone who has a similar situation will jump in
here with a preference based on experience.
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
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