List of System-Defined Fields

This field is used on journal contacts to indicate how a particular contact with an account was accomplished. Common contact methods include fax, email, phone call, and letter, though this field is also often used to indicate contacts related to volunteering and events.

This field is used on the Personas screen to indicate the country where an address is located.

eTapestry contains a list of over 230 countries, territories, and colonies in this field, but by default most of them are disabled. You can enable them as necessary.

Note: You cannot disable your organization's default country.

This field is used to indicate the credit/debit card type on transactions where the gift type has been set to credit/debit card.

This field is used to track the source of data that is not entered into eTapestry manually. This includes data that comes in via eCommerce pages, donor login sites, the API, and via imports. It can be found on the Defined Fields page and on transactions, notes, and contacts in the System Defined-Fields category.

Values are added to this field automatically when accounts or transactions are created/modified through one of the methods listed above. You do not need to edit or update this field as a user.

When certain features in the database are used, eTapestry automatically creates a note on the organization account to record the details. This occurs when you generate communication, complete imports or mass updates, and make changes to organization preferences or security. This field records the type of change made.

You do not need to edit or update this field as a user.

This field defines the persona types available for data entry. The options are listed at the top of the Personas page.

By default, eTapestry includes the persona types Personal and Business, but you can add more persona types as needed in order to record more types of address data, such as Joint or Seasonal.

This field defines which phone type fields appear for data entry on the Persona screen and which of the phone types are used as default. eTapestry includes the types Voice, Mobile, Pager and Fax, with Voice as default.

You can edit or add to these phone type codes or add more phone type codes as needed.

This field defines which real estate types are available on the transaction screen when the gift type is set to real estate. Common real estate types include condominium, land, house, and commercial property.

This field is used when you set up advanced security to define which items in the database are viewable to users.