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Is it possible to add a new Person Attribute in the Bio Bar section?

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In our society, a woman usually adopts the full name of her husband upon marriage.  So, I want to add a new Person Attribute / data field called "Maiden Name".

I managed to add a Person Attribute "Maiden Name" under the catergory "Membership" and it shows up under the Membership block of the "Extended Atributes" tab.

Is it possible to instead have this field show up in the screen when we do "Edit Individual"?

Another Person Attribute that I would like to add in the Bio bar section is a new field to store the name in Chinese characters (currently stored in Nickname field)

  • Photo of Nick Airdo

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    It's not quite possible to do it that way, but Rock does now support Maiden name (previous last name) support.  When editing an individual you will find it under the advanced section (as mentioned here http://www.rockrms.com/Rock/BookContent/5/60#marriage):

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    It also has the benefit of showing up when you view the record and it also allows you to search by the person's previous name:

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  • Photo of Jim Michael

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    To my knowledge there is no way to add an arbirary attribute to the Bio block. It would need to be modified for this capability. I can think of one work-around that might meet your need, but it's not great: Creat a liquid (lava) badge type that exposes the attribute you need, then edit the settings of the Bio block to display that badge. It won't show up where you want it along side the other attributes, but it will at least be in the Bio bar.

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    Beside Jim's uses of liquid lava, you could hard-code it if you know how to do that. But it sound like this could be a suggestion or idea for the black book.

    • Hock_Hin Lee

      Hock_Hin Lee

      Agree. A simple solution is to have a special category called "Bio Bar" for Person Attributes. A more complete solution is to expose the Bio Bar in the same way as the other Person attributes.


      But are there design constraints for the Bio Bar that we don't know of?