VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

Mark Bad Phone Numbers and E-mail Addresses

VSys gives you a quick tool for marking individual phone numbers and e-mail addresses as bad. This doesn't mark the person as "Do not call" or "Do not e-mail", it's meant to mark the phone number or e-mail address so you don't try to re-contact the person again with this information. By marking it bad instead of just deleting it you don't re-add the same bad phone number or e-mail address over and over again. (VSys will never use a phone number or e-mail address marked as "Bad".)

Steps in this task

Open the Mark bad phone numbers/e-mail addresses tool.
Type in the bad phone number or e-mail address.
Click the Find button.
VSys will bring up a list of all people who have that phone number or e-mail address and check all of them.
To mark the phone number as bad for all of the checked people, click the Mark bad button.

Bad phone/e-mail entry tool screen

You can also right-click on a person for more tools you can use on that person.

Edit	Brings up this person in the Profile editor.
Update addresses and phones	Opens the simplified Profile editor (name and addresses only).
Open read-only	Brings up this person in the Profile editor in read-only mode.
Comments and images for this person	Lets you associate pictures and comments with this person.
See tracked changes	Shows all changes made to this person. Only visible if tracing is enabled.
Send this person an e-mail	If this person has a valid e-mail address, brings him up in your e-mail application.
Copy name and address to the clipboard	Copies this person's name and address to the clipboard for you to paste into another program.

If you accidentally mark a phone number or e-mail address as bad, the only way to un-do that is to open each person individually, go to their Addresses panel, and fix each phone number/e-mail address by right-clicking on it.

If you enter a partial phone number or e-mail address in this tool, VSys will tell you who it belongs to but not automatically mark them as bad. This is to prevent you, for example, from marking everyone in the (518) area code with a bad phone number.