Hi All,
We are getting ready to do some name captures (with contact information) and are trying to decide if it's better to apply a Constituency to them or an Attribute. Any advice? We most likely will be using list manager to pull the info but want to make sure we know all the pros/cons before we decide. Here is what we have:
Constituencies:
Pros:
Con
Attributes:
Cons
I concur with some of the others above: Constituencies are more of a label, a flag to get our attention about something, not really a place to store data. Attributes are better suited to that.
Re: no end dates. It is certainly possible to create a date-type attribute and to use that as an end date for something. We have had several of these over the years.
Are you wanting to store the origin, category, create date, or something like that, of these name-captured constituents? I'd suggest creating them with a unique original source (i.e. row in TR_ORIGINAL_SOURCE). We've used that in the past for large imports, which makes them very easy to find them later.