codeforamerica/Data-Wiki — Issue #50: distinguishing between contact field and name of block watch group
Author: chachasikes
Created: 2011-11-02 17:35:13+00:00
State: open

Can you add some guidelines in the Contact fields to direct people to enter either a location or the name of the Block Watch group? I’d rather see the name of each block watch group appear in that first field, or the name of the neighborhood, as opposed to an individual’s name.

The main reason is that someone new who is looking to connect is not going to know the name of the captain until after they’ve connected.

In looking at the data entered so far, I see several people who have done that (Dagmar Cronn, Dick Miller & Dick Hurley for example); I worry that as the database grows, in List View it will be a pain to have to scan through the descriptions as opposed to the headers to see where those groups are located.

If you could also add fields to capture the names of the captain(s), that would be ideal. It would be cool to be able to search for a captain by name & then have their listing come up in search results. -- from karen & deborah