Archive for November, 2008

New feature: Notes!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

Now that the last of the turkey has made it into the last of the turkey salad sandwiches, it’s time to roll out another great feature: NOTES!

Available only for premium users, the new notes feature lets any planner at your company enter notes for a TD that are visible to all planners at your company. You can enter general notes, or, enter a note that applies to a specific past event. This second type of note is great for when you’re doing your post-trip review. Anyone can enter post-trip notes while the information is fresh in one’s memory, and then later print out or review all post-trip notes with the team. (Or, for annual events, a new planner can review which staff did well last year, and which ones didn’t do as well.)

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Event status improvements

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Some small improvements for TDs entering their own events.

  • Before, when you created an event, the status was automatically set to Accepted, which meant your only option was to cancel it. Now, we’ve added the In Discussion status to this page.What this means is that if a planner wants you to hold a set of dates, you can enter the dates and set the event to In Discussion. To event planners your schedule will show “Tentative.” That way, everyone you can see you’ve pencilled in those dates, but you’re not committed until you change the status to Accepted. Other planners can still issue invites for those dates, and when the planner you blocked the dates for eventually sends a proper invitation, you can accept that one and cancel the first one.
  • Now instead of declining an event you entered yourself, you can just cancel it.
  • Canceled events are shown with lines through them and faded to indicate they’re not relevant events anymore.

What do you think? Should canceled events even be displayed at all? Or would you rather have the option to turn it on and off?

Also, caught a bug in the update event page where a date update would error out — this has been fixed.

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