Gift Gab: Suffixticated Gifts
Suffixes are often treated as afterthoughts, but occasionally a suffix can provide very important distinctions. For instance, there's a difference between Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra, as Jason Seaver discovered in The Breakfast Club (no, not that Breakfast Club).
Cal Ripken, Sr. was a great baseball man, but Cal Ripken, Jr. was a Hall of Famer; Richard I is in all the Robin Hood movies, Richard II was give the short end of the Henriad; James Bond is a pop culture icon, James Bond, Jr. is a pop culture footnote.
In other words, suffixes matter.
When you are looking at the Gifts tab on a Constituent record, a gift suffix can help you distinguish between hard credit and soft credit gifts with a glance. To add a suffix for soft credit gifts, follow these steps:
- Select Tools, User Options from the menu bar.
- Select the Color tab and highlight Legends.
- Click View Gift Legend.
- Highlight Soft on the left and make the appropriate selections, mark Suffix checkboxes and enter -sc.
- Click OK.
Now, whenever a soft credit gift is entered, the suffix -sc will appear after the gift type. For example, a Cash gift that has been soft credited to a constituent will read "Cash-sc", distinguishing it from hard credit Cash gifts.
For more information, check out Knowledgebase solution BB520488.
The answer to the Brain Buster in this month's edition of The User's Edge is that Gaston's substitute teacher was also the football coach.
If a team was on its own 48 yard line and gained 5 yards, they would be on the opposing team’s 47 yard line.
If they gained an additional 3 yards, they’d be on the 44 yard line.
If they then lost 7 yards, they’d be back on their own 49 yard line.
If they lost an additional 6 yards, they’d be on the 43 yard line.
If they then had a big 15 yard gain, that would get them to the opposing team’s 42 yard line.
So:
48 + 5 = 47
47 + 3 = 44
44 - 7 = 49
49 - 6 = 43
43 + 15 = 42