Keys
Key | Value |
|---|---|
1 | Community |
2 | MailFmt |
Description
The MailFmt setting is used to determine the default formats of the mailing names used at your organisation:
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In addition, you can override the mailing name formats of an individual student from the Personal tab of Current Student Maintenance. See Current Student Maintenance - Personal tab in the Current students manual.
This setting is decided during the implementation of Synergetic at your organisation.
In the following example, the mail formats are displayed for Mr John Bill Harry Shue and his spouse Mrs Gene Mary Shue.
Setting | Mail Name Primary | Mail Name Joint | Mail Salutation Primary | Mail Salutation Joint | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mr J ShueI Surname | Mr and Mrs J ShueI Surname | Mr ShueSurname | Mr and Mrs ShueSurname | ||
2 | Mr J ShueI Surname | Mr & Mrs J ShueMr ShueI Surname | Mr Surname | Mr & Mrs ShueSurname | ||
3 | Mr J ShueI Surname | Mr J I and Mrs G ShueMr ShueI Surname | Mr Surname | Mr and Mrs ShueSurname | ||
4 | Mr J ShueI Surname | Mr J I & Mrs G ShueMr ShueI Surname | Mr Surname | Mr & Mrs ShueSurname | ||
5 | Mr J I B H ShueSurname | Mr and Mrs J B H ShueMr ShueInitials Surname | Mr Surname | Mr and Mrs ShueMrs Surname | ||
6 | Mr J Mr I B H ShueSurname | Mr & Mrs J B H ShueMr ShueInitials Surname | Mr Surname | Mr & Mrs ShueMrs Surname | ||
7 | Mr J Mr I B H ShueSurname | Mr J B H Initials and Mrs G J M ShueMr ShueInitials Surname | Mr Surname | Mr and Mrs ShueMrs Surname | ||
8 | Mr J Mr I B H ShueSurname | Mr J B H Initials & Mrs G J M Shue | Mr Shue | Mr & Mrs ShueInitials Surname | Mr Surname | Mr & Mrs Surname |
Note: Intials for settings 5 through 8 include the first name of Given 1 and the first and second names of Given 2. For example, if Given 1 is Kathryn Anne and Given 2 is Michelle Robyn the initials are K M R.
Default value
The default value is 3.Anchor
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Setting a different value
If you override the setting, all subsequent new or changed records use the new formats. Contact Synergetic Management Systems if you need to change all records(including pre-existing records) to the new formats and we will forward the request to our database team.
Update the Value field on the Configuration File Maintenance window. See Maintaining configuration files.