MailFmt configuration setting

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:

Mail Name Primary
Mail Name Joint
Mail Salutation Primary
Mail Salutation Joint.

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 I Surname	Mr and Mrs I Surname	Mr Surname	Mr and Mrs Surname
2	Mr I Surname	Mr & Mrs I Surname	Mr Surname	Mr & Mrs Surname
3	Mr I Surname	Mr I and Mrs I Surname	Mr Surname	Mr and Mrs Surname
4	Mr I Surname	Mr I & Mrs I Surname	Mr Surname	Mr & Mrs Surname
5	Mr I B H Surname	Mr and Mrs Initials Surname	Mr Surname	Mr and Mrs Surname
6	Mr I B H Surname	Mr & Mrs Initials Surname	Mr Surname	Mr & Mrs Surname
7	Mr I B H Surname	Mr Initials and Mrs Initials Surname	Mr Surname	Mr and Mrs Surname
8	Mr I B H Surname	Mr Initials & Mrs Initials 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.

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.