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GAIL Export to Merge Letters, Envelopes or Labels

Do you need to export an excel file to use in Word for Merging letters, envelopes, label, etc.? A sample event invitation will be used for this purpose. Continue reading […]

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Mar
31

Marketing Efforts Using the “Basic Export” Definition

The “Basic Export” that you have likely used in the past to attach to your Marketing Efforts/Packages has recently become corrupted and will not allow you to export your marketing […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . Direct Marketing Efforts . Query
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Mar
14

Majors Now Appear on the Main Body of a Constituent’s Education Tab

Previously, if you wanted to see someone’s “major”, you would have to drill into the education record and look under “Department”.  With the latest enhancement to GAIL, this has now […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . General & Updates
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Mar
03

GAIL Constituent Search – Name/Lookup ID

A new search tool has very recently been added to the GAIL Constituent Search box.  This new item is “Name/Lookup ID” and it became the first search box in the […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . General & Updates
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Jan
27

Changing Primary Address Information

If you are reviewing a Constituent’s record in GAIL and are certain that their Primary Address, or Primary Phone, or Primary Email address are not correct then you’ll want to […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . General & Updates
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Jan
27

Query Results With More Than 500 Records

This is for all the Query users out there – if you are running a query that yields more than 500 records, you’ll notice you are not able to view […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . Query
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Jan
14

Who and what data information is maintained in GAIL?

GAIL is a robust database system that houses nearly 600,000 constituent records (people and organizations). These constituents are continuously updated and new ones are added as they become available to […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . General & Updates
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Jan
14

What is the definition of Annual Giving?

Annual giving includes current academic gifts within a fiscal year cycle that are repeatable in nature (i.e., feasibly renewed and/or increased from year to year) and are not payments made […]

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Jan
10

Event Registrations – Non-attending Sponsors and Hosts

It’s not uncommon for a person to pay a registration fee on behalf of someone else, but how do you handle that when you’re manually adding registrations in GAIL? Follow […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . Events Management
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Jan
03

Constituent Custom Search Tool

By popular demand – a new Search tool has been added to GAIL – this tool will be useful for anyone wishing to filter search results by College/School, Degree, Degree Area, or […]

By Danielle Free | Blog . General & Updates
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