#12 Event Table

[David Morris]

I just wanted to get on here a proposed idea I
submitted on the developer list for an Event Table like
the current Property table.

Here is a copy of part of what I sent there...

I am a Pastor of a United Methodist Church and the
General church just instituted some new standards for
membership record-keeping. Part of that is the tracking
of different dates: Birth, marriage, baptism,
profession of faith, Transfer to another church,
removal of membership, death, etc. They also want to
track other important events in a person's life for
passing on of information to other pastors who serve a
church.
And it seems to me that instead of simply adding more
fields to the person's record, to have a separate table
for all event types (like osc now has for property
types with the addition of a date field)

Another use for it that I am interested in is the
addition of a visitation/contact module. This would
track when I have made visits to people and would also
keep track of when I need to visit/contact someone
again. By having an event table, I can track when I
visited who and what came of it, as well as see who I
need to see in a week.