June 10, 2011
In today’s modern age, many people have multiple email addresses. They may have a work email, a home email, a personal email, etc. I think I may have at least 1/2 a dozen. In Clarify (and Dovetail), there’s one field for specifying an email address. Back in 1990, it was uncommon that people had multiple email addresses, so a single field was sufficient. But what do we do when a contact has multiple email addresses? Where do we store that info? I’ve seen systems where multiple custom fields are created, such as: table_contact.x_home_email table_contact.x_work_email table_contact.x_alternate_email table_contact.x_alternate_email2 etc. Yuck. I’ve also seen systems where multiple email addresses are crammed into the one existing email field. Yuck again. How about… I think what would be useful is a table that allowed for many email…
Multiple email addresses for a contact or employee
June 10, 2011
In today’s modern age, many people have multiple email addresses. They may have a work email, a home email, a personal email, etc. I think I may have at least 1/2 a dozen. In Clarify (and Dovetail), there’s one field for specifying an email address. Back in 1990, it was uncommon that people had multiple email addresses, so a single field was sufficient. But what do we do when a contact has multiple email addresses? Where do we store that info? I’ve seen systems where multiple custom fields are created, such as: table_contact.x_home_email table_contact.x_work_email table_contact.x_alternate_email table_contact.x_alternate_email2 etc. Yuck. I’ve also seen systems where multiple email addresses are crammed into the one existing email field. Yuck again. How about… I think what would be useful is a table that allowed for many email…