Create a global change to change designations on recurring gifts
Often we need to take a group of designations that have 3 or 4 levels in the designatation hierarchy and modify them. So e.g.
OM NL/NL_abc/NL_support/xxxx
OMNL/NL_abc/NL_support/yyyy
OMNL/NL_abc/NL_support/zzz etc
needs to have all recurring gifts updated to show
OMNL/NL_mno/NL_support/xxxx
OMNL/NL_mno/NL_support/yyyy
OMNL/NL_mno/NL_support/zzzz etc.
If you use a generated Revenue Update Batch to update the designation on a Pledge, this does automatically also update the Pledge payments, but if you update the designation on a Recurring Gift, this does not automatically update the Recurring Gift payments. This demonstrates a regrettable inconsistency in data maintenance and there are no warnings about this in the relevant documentation.