When a donor writes in the name of their tribute, it is creating a record in Raiser's Edge. The problem is that the date needs to be changed for the tribute to be exiting at least one day prior to the gift being given. It was tedious to figure this out today as "tribute" wasn't an automated update option on the giving form or for gifts approval. Notification to users that the record was created would be nice, or revert back to it just being a notation on the gift that it is in Honor/Memory of someone was efficient.
Honestly, just giving us the option to NOT have a "from" date populated would alleviate this.