Educational institutions are added as partial organization records which causes problems in other areas of the application such as relationships

Currently, when you create a new educational institution an incomplete organization record is also created. This is confusing to users as these partial org records are appearing in various search options (such as on the add relationship screen). These partial orgs are only searchable via some of the search screens but not all which is also confusing to users. (Not visible from the main organization search for example) This should be reviewed and possibly changed to either not be searchable anywhere in the application or to create complete organization records.

  • Cassidy Eaton
  • Nov 11 2015
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
Organization Name (Please enter full organization name) University of Michigan
Reported Version 4.0
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  • Martin Porcas commented
    April 27, 2023 07:50

    Nearly eight years later and this issue still exists. According to Product Development, being able to link records via relationships to records that you cannot access in any other way is "Working as Designed". Please PD, can you tell us the reasons for this ability, as, surely, it should not be possible?

  • Guest commented
    October 24, 2019 22:53

    This appears to be the same issue as another idea, Remove Educational Institutions from Relationship Search,  https://bbcrm.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CRM-I-2807.

  • Cassidy Eaton commented
    November 11, 2015 18:01

    This has security implications as well. Those that do not have access to delete educational institutions are able to do so if they locate and find the partial organization record as they do have access to delete organizations. No warning is given to let the user know that they are also deleting an educational institution.

  • Cassidy Eaton commented
    November 11, 2015 18:01

    You can also search/select these partial organization records when adding event registrations.

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