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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: [TMG] Re: TMG-L: Fw: EMail Address
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:42:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00db01bfcb5c$1af72ee0$65032526@0016374473>


arlene wrote:
>This comes from another list I am on and aroused my curiosity..
>
>For those of you who have been around a "long" time ---
>Do you find any value in this kind of tag/information
>Arlene
>----- Original Message -----
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:51 PM
>Subject: Re: EMail Address
>
>> I have custom facts called "EMAIL" and "URL" for entering email addresses
>> and web sites for people in my database. When I generate outline
>descendant
>> charts for my web site, I include these two facts in the list of facts to
>> display on the report. I think moving the specialized fields into facts
>> fields is actually better than having it hard coded, because with an
>>EMAIL fact you can list ALL of the email addresses of a person,
>>whereas a built-in EMAIL field would only allow you enter 1 email
>>address (or attempt to squeeze a 2nd into the remaining space in the
>>field or screw up some other field by entering information that doesn't
>>belong there).

This depends on how you might intend to use the information. If it is used
as information about a person then a Custom Tag called EMAIL or URL could
be created to gather that type of data. You could create the tag in either
the Address or Other Tag Group depending on how you want the tag treated in
reports. Using the Other Tag Group, you would probably enter the data in
the Memo field.

If the information is part of a Source or helps identifies the originator
of some information, then you would want to include it in the Source
Definition for the appropriate Source.

Hope this helps -

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Lee Hoffman/KY
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