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Catholic Orgs and lots of Suffixes

  • October 14, 2025
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Any other Catholic non-profits using EA that have advice on how to handle all the suffixes for vowed religious? Or others that have a constituent base with many more prefix/suffix combos beyond the standard Jr, Sr, PhDs?

We currently have a custom field for “longer suffix” that bypasses the 5 character suffix limit - but that doesn’t integrate with online forms. Curious what ways others have approached this?

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  • October 15, 2025

Hi ​@jeff , to confirm I’ve understood, by integrate with online forms do you mean as a field for the contact to write into/select from when they submit a form?

If so, you can add custom fields to online forms under the additional information custom questions section. 

  1. Click the checkbox next to Additional Information
  2. Create a Question
  3. Select Short Answer (75 char max)
  4. Map it to your existing custom field -- this will make it so that when folks submit the form it will populate their answer in the custom field

 

From there, you are able to use it as a merge field in the form confirmation page (e.g. so that the name response reads as {{Last Name}} {{Custom Suffix}}). 

That said, let me know if I missed the mark and you’re looking for something else!


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  • October 15, 2025

@veronica maybe this has been updated since we began using EA, but for us the issue was that the “Custom Suffix” gets bumped down to the additional info and ends up disconnected from the rest of the name fields. 

It is disjointed for a user to fill out contact info with email, address, etc, and then later on get prompted for a suffix. 

Ultimately for most of our forms, we’ve opted to just use the default suffix and if it doesn’t fit it doesn’t fit. 

 

 


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  • First Timer
  • October 15, 2025

@jeff  ah yeah, no there isn’t an out-of-box functionality to reorder the custom questions into the default Contact Information fields as much as I wish there was!