Welcome to The Raiser's Edge 7.93. Before you begin to use the program, please take a moment to review the following notes, which highlight some of the new features and enhancements. It is important to share this information with all The Raiser's Edge users in your organization. A shortcut to the Release Notes for The Raiser's Edge has been added to your desktop, so you can access these notes at any time.

 

Be sure to check out The Raiser's Edge 7.93 walkthrough for more information and about new features!

Administration

  • The Duplicate Constituent Management Tool allows you to review and manage all of your potential duplicate records in one central location.

  • The Duplicate Constituent Management Tool first searches your database, and then provides a list of all potential duplicate records. You can then go through the list to remove duplicates.

  • To remove duplicates, you can merge and delete records, or mark records as Not a duplicate so they are never matched again as a potential duplicate.

Batch

  • To help manage and organize the batches you create, you can create categories in which to group them, such as by user or by the batch's intended use. You can drag and drop batches from the batch list into the appropriate category.

Constituents

  • When you add a new address to a constituent record, a prompt now appears to allow you to copy phone and email information from the existing preferred address to the new address.

  • You can now enter fuzzy dates into date of birth fields.

Export

  • You can now rename export headings to make the columns in the export easier to discern, and more contextually accurate. For example, if you are exporting multiple Gift Amount fields, but each has different criteria, you can create descriptive column headers to make them easily discernible in the output.

Mail

  • To help personalize letters, the Last Name, First Gift Date, First Gift Amount, and Last Gift Date fields have been added to Donor Acknowledgement Letters and Quick Letters.

Query

  • In the results of a query list, you can now view primary addressee and constituent ID information. These columns are also sortable.

Security

  • The Edit Constituent ID security setting is now available. If you select the Edit Constituent ID checkbox in Security, edit rights will be enabled for the Constituent ID field for a given user. If the checkbox is not selected, the user can view Constituent IDs, but will not be able to edit them.

  • In Security, you can now select whether or not the Web Services module is available to users. By default, Web Services is available to non-Supervisors.

SQL Server Compatibility

  • The Raiser's Edge 7.92 is now compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2012.