Searchable Field for Alternate Name
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Patrick Chen
Especially in immigrant and queer communities, many people go by a personal or community name other than their English government name.
I understand that the First Name and Last Name fields make sense to be one's English government name especially for Petition forms, etc.
It would be nice to have a system field called something like "Alternate Name" (maybe it can be toggled on/off by the admin) that the Search Bar will search in addition to the classic Name fields.
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Ella Ryan
This would be great as an option for addressing people too (as well as just for searching). For example for people who don't want to be addressed by their legal first name. A merge field that would allow us to address people by their nickname/"known-as" would be helpful eg "Hi {{ user.known-as }}" which would use their nickname if available and fill in first name if not.
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Patrick Chen
For example, for Chinese immigrant communities, someone's name may be known in several different ways depending on context, age dynamics, language fluency, etc so each organizer may search ST for the name they know best.
Here's a made up example based on a real member:
English Name: Patrick Wong
Alternate Romanization: Patrick Huang
Chinese Name: 黃玉慰
Chinese Name Phonetics: Huang Yu Wei