Add "Caretaker" Relationship and "Responsible Driver" checkbox

As a day & boarding school, there are many parents who have caretakers and other individuals responsible for picking up their child(ren) from school.

As such it would be a great feature to add the ability to mark individuals related to a student as a "Responsible Driver" or "Responsible Caretaker", so if and when someone comes to pickup a child this could be verified.

Currently all relationships are familial in nature, and while "Ward" could be used for this purpose I think a broader "Caretaker" or other relationship would be warranted here.  We would then need a way to mark the individual as a "Responsible Driver" much like the "Responsible Signer" checkbox.

To go a step further then, it would great if we could have a School Form which allowed parents to supply this information to us ahead of time and which would connect back to their Contact Card relationships.

Not sure if an additional role would be warranted then to allow our security team and other pertinent individuals to access just this particular information so they would not need full back-end access to families' contact cards.

  • Alex Orlebeke
  • Aug 17 2018
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  • Alex Orlebeke commented
    October 16, 2018 16:48

    After a recent Blackbaud Support call I discovered that there is in fact a "Caretaker" relationship that wasn't enabled.  That being said, we use this relationship for other purposes in the system.

    Given this, we just need the ability to add our own additional relationship types.