Create relationship for deceased parent-child that does not have the Parent role

We are having issues with our Education Management system syncing to other systems. The other systems continue to show deceased parents because those records still have the Parent role. We are seeing this in particular with our sync to Magnus, which lists any person with the Parent role as an emergency contact for the student, even if they are deceased.


We want to be able to keep the deceased parent as a relationship on the student's record, but we don't want them to have the Parent role, for a variety of reasons--to remove parental access, to remove them from the parent directory, to remove them from forms, etc. Perhaps if deceased parent records had a different role, that would solve some of the other issues with them showing up on various reports or rosters where we don't want them to show up?


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Make the "Do not contact" meaningful, remove these people from lists


  • Jeanne Townsend
  • Feb 26 2021
K-12 Core / User Management
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  • Mary Zieten commented
    14 Mar 18:53

    All of this! We had a parent contact us today because they are still getting emails from the teacher/coach when they use the button in classes to contact the parents of a group. My preference is not to have to strip all of the data from a record in order to mark them deceased, and that's essentially what I have to do in order for them not to show up in that list anymore.

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