Query - pull preferred email address

Being able to pull the preferred email address of a constituent will save an abundance of time and energy so we won't have to sort through which addresses are active/inactive. This feature was previously included in the query and it is incredibly frustrating that it's been taken away 

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  • Aug 6 2018
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  • K L commented
    09 Nov 14:07

    Yes! This is so cumbersome. Agree with the most recent comment that phone and email should be classed as....phone and email. Also, if I'm building a query in which I want the results to include the address, email, and phone number, the query will return 3 results for 1 donor, one line each for address, email, and phone number. Shouldn't it be "smart" enough to include all that data in the same record?

  • Guest commented
    23 Sep 17:54

    HARD agree. It is SO dumb we can output preferred addresses and not preferred email or phone number. (Also, why are phone numbers and emails both classed under phone number???)

  • Clara Huebenthal commented
    December 23, 2025 16:48

    Can we bring this up again? I feel like this is a simple ask, no? We can output preferred Addresses without providing criteria for it - so why not be able to output preferred email addresses? It would save LOTS of time.

  • Anna D commented
    October 17, 2025 19:03

    Agreed! If we can mark the email as primary on their record, why can't we ask a query to pull the primary email? Otherwise, we're pulling their work and personal emails, plus phone numbers (since they're grouped together), and getting up to 7 lines per person that we need to sort through. Really messy.

  • Alli Kelba commented
    July 09, 2025 01:33

    Agree. If "preferred address" can be added to the query output, then why not "preferred email","preferred phone number".
    Right now, as a new user to nxt, I'm finding it so difficult to output those without having to output multiple columns of phone and email types.