Hello all,
We are trying to determine if this is possible. We have a household record in which both members of the household are deceased. We've updated the individual records according to consortium standards and created non-primary affiliations to the household.
Now we would like to Change Constituent Type on the household record to make it an Estate. For us, Estate is in the Organization cust_group. While it is possible to change and individual to a customer_type in the Organization group, Households don't appear to have this option. Is this a bug or a feature? And does anyone know of a workaround?
Thanks!
- Levi
In order to change a household record into an estate record, you’d first have to change it into an individual record by using the Household Operations menu (under the Constituents dropdown). This is the case for changing households into any other record types as well. Once it’s an individual record, you can change the constituent type to estate (or any other record type except household).
I’d recommend creating a new Estate record unless it’s essential for you to be able to see what the giving history of the couple was along with any estate funds in the same report, because by creating the estate you would move all of the information about the couple into the new record and would have to affiliate them to the estate with a new affiliation type, therefore possibly confusing someone trying to determine the relationship.
Hope this helps!
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Laine Kyllonen
Database Application Specialist
Science Museum of Minnesota
(651) 221-2515
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We no longer change the record to Estate as we did prior to v.11. Instead we now create an affiliation/association to an Estate record.
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Thank you both! Both options make good sense. Looks like we'll have to have a few conversations about how we want to handle this going forward. But these suggestions are excellent!
I am curious how you handle the issue of an open pledge or order on the record. We have this happen from time to time and we are looking for best practices to adopt for this. Has anyone come across that?
Thanks,
Marie