Getting rid of old activity codes

[Andrew Carrick]

We are going to revise our activity codes and this will involve "getting rid" of many of the original ones. Has anybody got any tips on doing this? I don't want to delete them so we preserve the history. I guess best way is to change description to e.g. "do not use"?

[DebAmstutz]

We did that with several...description is now "DO NOT USE".  Too bad they can't be renamed to go to the bottom of the list!

[Andrew Carrick]

Thanks Deb, that was my thought exactly!

[Lance Bateman]

One thing we did on some was change the default description to "See ABCD" being the proper code to use.

[Robin Deatherage]

That is a good idea Lance.  Thanks for sharing.

[Andrew Carrick]

Yes, neat.

[Lynne Desrochers]

I was at a Sandy Oliver class recently and she recommended putting just a "." in the description. Then they don't stop and read anything at all. Sounded interesting to me.
Lynne

[Andrew Carrick]

I tried that a while ago to make users put a proper description in, but it didn't work, they just left it as "." But then we have users who sometimes use the code at the top of the list (14DA) for any activity or diary. Go figure. 

[Hans Manhave]

I'm very friendly on some of our codes.  The description that pops up (or prints) is: You did wrong!  Learn how.

It is amazing to see that things like that still are mailed out.

[Andrew Carrick]

Like it!

[brinkerdana]

You should make those folks who don't use descriptions or who use the first activity code in the list search for something they did 2 years ago!  That'll change their tune!