Does anyone know how to save a package? There is no save method in CPackage. I thought maybe I needed to save the appeal, but that is not working either.

On a side note, has anyone out there written any code that moves gifts from one constituent to another? It seems like the only way to do this is to create a new gift and copy all of the information one by one (RE won't let me just change the constituent of the Gift).

Consequently, I am working on saving the package because I actually had to make inactive packages active while working on the new gift since RE won't let me assign a gift to an inactive package!

If anyone has done this type of work, I would very much like to know what you have experienced. I am doing some post-conversion work that is requiring alot of shifting around of gifts.

Thanks,
Joe

I haven't tried saving a package...yet. Your problem is quite specific, have you tried BB VBA support? They are quite good. BTW, a good trick for changing constituents on a gift is with the merge constituent feature. The only downfall is that you can only transfer ALL the gifts from one constituent to an other. [b]William da Silva[/b] President, eSimpleIT Technology and organisation simplified [Email Removed]

Thanks, William, I think my problem was that i was not loading the package and/or appeal correctly (I am still very new to this). I needed to use the .LoadByField method. Then, saving the appeal correctly saves the packages. Yes, VBA support was very helpful. They gave me a working code snipit that showed me what I was doing wrong. I would have done this using the merge constituent feature, but I need to do it for hundereds of records based on a couple of queries, and RE doesn't yet have a mass-merging utility... so, I have to do it programmatically. Merging two concurrent databases into one during a conversion is NO fun! Now I am having a hard time saving the gift! I am trying to set the constituent id of the new gift to the correct constituent (I have the cRecord of the correct constituent). Apparently, the field (GIFT_fld_Constit_ID) refers to the system ID of the constituent, which is nowhere to be found in cRecord (only the Constituent ID is available). Aaarg! Thanks for your help. I plan on being pretty active in this forum because we are customizing so much. Hopefully it will pick up in here. Joe Sullivan Data Systems Administrator Great Commission Ministries

I believe the filed you are looking for is oConstit.Fields(RECORDS_fld_ID). If not, it's oConstit.Fields(RECORDS_fld_CONSTITUENT_ID). I am assigning Events to Constituents and I'm using the ID field. Eric Aldrich

I recently asked VBA support about functions for copying a gift. The support person said he wasn't aware of anything that does that. I've considered writing my own function for doing so, but "copying all of the information" is not trivial if one is also going to copy payments to pledges. I did write a function that copies any address. I use this to keep track of former addresses. (My function does any address. The RE pull down menu only copies preferred address.) - Tom [Email Removed])

Hi Joe, Did you ever get something to move individual gifts from one constituent to the other. I suddenly find myself in this pickle! Thanks, [b]William da Silva[/b] President, eSimpleIT Technology and organisation simplified [Email Removed]

Hmmmm ....

 Me too