About Alumni Finder
Alumni Finder provides a way to search for populations of alumni and related individuals that meet certain criteria.
Using Alumni Finder
Alumni Finder is available by navigating to Alum/Dev > Alumni Finder or by clicking Filters > Alumni
Refer to People Finder documentation for information on setting criteria and working with results.
Special Functions of Alumni Finder
Individuals appear in the alumni finder only if they are marked as alumni
The alumni module can search for spouse of alumni. To do so, on the finder click Hide/Show Fields and check Spouse in First and Last Name Search boxes. The first and last name criteria boxes will now search both alumni and their spouses.
Setting Custom Control FORMERFIND, Sequence 1, Parameter 1 to Y will cause the Last Name filter to search on both current last names as well as names stored in the former name field of an individual's record.
Results may be sent to the Gift Finder to marry information on alumni with their donations. To do so, once results are loaded, select the results to send to the Gift Finder and click Send Selected to Gift Finder. Choose For Page to send the current page of results or For All to send all results.
Alumni Finder can be configured to include Organizations by setting Custom Control (Admin Menu → Custom Control) ALUMFINDER 1,1 = Y and refreshing the Data Cache (Admin Menu → Refresh Data Cache)
Alumni Current, Prior Year, and Total Giving are able to be filtered on with a min and max value range.