Answers.Body: <p>What you could do is to use a custom field for that. And make sure when you search for contacts you search for active contacts. </p>
  
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Answers.UserDisplayName: Jaap Jansma - CiviCooP
Body: <p>We have a school that is a contact organization and it has now closed how can I mark it as inactive/closed?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: uuuuggh this is a long-standing pet peeve of mine re: CiviCRM - the inability to mark a contact as "inactive" without marking them "deceased".  I'm curious what other solutions people give - but IMO Civi contacts need a new checkbox.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jon G - Megaphone Tech
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Comments.Text: @JonG we could reuse the 'is_deceased' column in the db for Orgs but present it with a different label. Might be a quick patch.
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Comments.Text: @Coleman not a bad idea in this particular case.  I think there's a case to be made for a new field, which I'll take to ~dev - I've refrained making the case because I haven't wanted to take on the work necessary to implement it.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jon G - Megaphone Tech
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Comments.Text: I did not even see a deceased option for an organization only saw it for people.
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Comments.Text: @JonG, Coleman Sometimes you want to mark individuals as inactive so a separate field at the contact level would be good.  We've handled it with custom fields but something with more inbuilt semantics like is_deceased would be preferable.
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Comments.Text: @YoniYares You're right - we're discussing more what COULD be than what IS.  Coleman thinks it could be a quick fix; I'm not 100% convinced.  I'll try to talk to some other folks about what it would take to add this.
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Comments.Text: In general, I am not a fan of tags, but in this case a tag works well; Also recommend marking as do not mail/email/contact.
Comments.UserDisplayName: pkeogan - BackOffice Thinking
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Comments.Text: The question is what "inactive" means in your context. Why would you need a special field for that? Is it not evident from the lack of certain relationships of memberships? If there is a contact without memberships, isn't it then obvious that this member is "inactive"?
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Title: Marking a contact as closed/inactive
ThreadText: # Marking a contact as closed/inactive
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-06)
  
  We have a school that is a contact organization and it has now closed how can I mark it as inactive/closed?
  
  **Tags:** contacts
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: uuuuggh this is a long-standing pet peeve of mine re: CiviCRM - the inability to mark a contact as "inactive" without marking them "deceased".  I'm curious what other solutions people give - but IMO Civi contacts need a new checkbox.  
  > **username_2**: @JonG we could reuse the 'is_deceased' column in the db for Orgs but present it with a different label. Might be a quick patch.  
  > **username_1**: @username_2 not a bad idea in this particular case.  I think there's a case to be made for a new field, which I'll take to ~dev - I've refrained making the case because I haven't wanted to take on the work necessary to implement it.  
  > **username_0**: I did not even see a deceased option for an organization only saw it for people.  
  > **username_3**: @JonG, username_2 Sometimes you want to mark individuals as inactive so a separate field at the contact level would be good.  We've handled it with custom fields but something with more inbuilt semantics like is_deceased would be preferable.  
  > **username_1**: @username_0 You're right - we're discussing more what COULD be than what IS.  username_2 thinks it could be a quick fix; I'm not 100% convinced.  I'll try to talk to some other folks about what it would take to add this.  
  > **username_4**: In general, I am not a fan of tags, but in this case a tag works well; Also recommend marking as do not mail/email/contact.  
  > **username_5**: The question is what "inactive" means in your context. Why would you need a special field for that? Is it not evident from the lack of certain relationships of memberships? If there is a contact without memberships, isn't it then obvious that this member is "inactive"?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2018-01-18. Score: 1
  
  What you could do is to use a custom field for that. And make sure when you search for contacts you search for active contacts.
  
  
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