Email & Phone Lists
Here's another one of those great questions, this time from Nancy in Van Buren:
"I did a report to get a list of 4-H members e-mail addresses. I have five members who are showing up twice. I clicked on Category—Members, Report Type—Complete, Report Style—E-mail List, and Record Status—New and Return.
Why do I get these five members on there twice? The only thing I’ve noticed is their parents are divorced so there are two households."
I couldn't have answered this question nearly as quickly if Nancy hadn't asked it in such a great way--all the information I needed about the report, as well (and this is the key) as the information about what the "problems" had in common.
The answer is that this is a "feature". Since these kids have two households, both households are going to be listed on the report, so that both emails can show up. This is different than the phone list, which only lists the "first" parent phone number for each youth. "First" in this case means the parent record with the lowest ID number. So there you have it--it's not a bug, it's a feature. By the way, that's the Golden Rule of Programmers...