Right now, I accomplish this via a forum with each members name as a topic which can be updated/viewed only by officers.  We use it to enter in things like the date somebody joined, got promoted, got awarded x medal, reason we booted someboy so we don't make the same mistake twice.  This works out okay, but it's very hard to stay on top of.  I'm finding that if an officer forgets to make an entry, which will inevitably happen, or worse yet, accidentally trims the forum, then we lose that info.  I know that, to a leader, having a single place to look at a member's individual performance is an invaluable tool.

It would be brilliant if we could have some way of integrating this with the roster, so that it makes some entries automatically (like if we approve a member to join, or award a member a medal, it could automatically make an entry), while also have the ability to add manual entries via WYSIWYG (like if you want to make a note about a member, or give an explaination as to why you booted a member).  In other words, to have a personnel file for each member that has pre-defined entries that would be common to all games. 

Maybe it could be a seperate content box that only appears for officers, or maybe it could be on the roster itself, only viewable/clickable/editable by officers.  I'm sure others could think of more GP data that could easily be displayed in a feature like this that they'd like to see clearly in one un-accidently-deletable spot.

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Aye FL also uses officer only Threads to keep files on our members.. I like your idea!

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Hmmmm... Sounds neat, but have a couple questions for you:

Is it tied to the member or to a character?

Would you prefer it be a content type on its own, an extension to the roster, or visible only in the Member Admin tools in the CCP?  Just FYI, member admin in the CCP is the easiest to implement, but if it's not useful there, it's not useful there. 

Does everybody agree with that list?  Any additions to it that others would like to see made?  Is the organization something that everyone would be comfortable with?

Basically it's an extension to the audit system already in place (Activity Logs), but with the addition of the ability to add comments.  By the way, when you de-guild someone, you're deleting the relationship between that member and the guild, so you wouldn't really have anywhere to click to see why you did it -- they'd be gone.

Putting all this information in the Control Panel tied to the Members is great with me.  As a matter of fact I kind of prefer it that way.  This way I know that no one is going to be editing the information or viewing the information other than myself and those I give permission to.

This way when someone is removed from the guild, we as officers can make a not in this section as to why they were removed and no one else can see it.  That kind of information does not need to be visible to all members.

Thank you Aaron for looking into this for us.  This will make things so much easier and I'm glad to see it is possible.  You're doing a great job.  It's so nice to see that we have input on what new features we get.

Thanks again.
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Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!

I think if you would be kind enough to add the ability to force a manual entry for a specific member, this feature would be complete.

I promoted a guy today, and that action made his the only one on the list.  I realize that you probably can't backtrack for every user for all guilds, but if I could get all my members names on that list, I could make most of the entries myself from the forums that I have saved...  And then it's goodbye outdated forum topic!

Wheee!  And, again Thanks!