The Names table and the Names Add/Edit screens are the Grand Central Station for the Association Manager (AM) system, containing all the primary information about non-members, prospective members, applicants, current members, suspended members, terminated members, resigned members, and deceased members. Almost all other functions in the system radiate out from this central core.
Like most Add/Edit screens in the system, the Names Add/Edit screens are comprised of multiple pages. These pages are commonly referred to as “tabs” because of their similarity in appearance to file folder tabs.
The screens described in this document are used to add and edit all the records that are stored either directly in the Names table or in one of a few closely-related child tables.
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Definition: A record in a “child” table
contains additional data for a specific record in the “parent” table, and is
linked via an ID# or similar code. When relatively few records in the parent use
this additional information, it is more efficient to store it in a child table
rather than have the fields in the parent table.