Update Phone Types
Other people have kind of alluded to this but I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. Under Core/Contact Card/Phone, all your phone types are extremely outdated. Who faxes anymore, especially to a home? Summer home & Winter home- really? Who uses the term wireless? Isn't the common term cell phone? Please consider changing the types to Primary Cell #, Secondary Cell #, Student's Cell #, Primary Emergency Contact #, Secondary Emergency Contact # and maybe a Work #. Right now, I use wireless for everything because people only ever give their cell phone numbers to us. Thanks.
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Rebecca Beachy Miller
- Apr 11 2025
Related ideas
I agree! And if we could also have the ability to modify & add phone types ourselves. There are similar ideas:
Changing Phone Type Name: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12CO-I-165
Changing Phone Type Names: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12CO-I-106
Add "Wireless 2" as an additional phone type: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12CO-I-2616
Home fax? This alone tells you the last time any developer looked at this.
These are very outdated! We should have the ability to change and update to fit our needs.
I agree! I would prefer simply Primary, Secondary, etc. By specifying Home, Wireless, Business/College, we have parents entering their cellphone numbers on their child's record as the "home" phone which is causing confusion and duplication. We don't care what device they're using, so the type is irrelevant. We just need to know what number to call first (primary), next (secondary) or last (tertiary).
Definitely need ability to add and edit both Address Type and Phone Type.