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Enhancements to Make Signup Schedule page

Editing schedule lines:

  1. You can now copy schedule lines (using the new Copy icon).
  2. You can now apply Update, Copy, and Delete to multiple schedule lines at once by selecting the desired lines first.
  3. You can select lines via checkboxes, and via search criteria (Select More).
  4. You can deselect all lines at once, via Select None.
  5. Note that analagous changes will be made to the Manage Activities page in a future website update.

Do-Setup-Action menu:

  1. It provides Add Activity Grids, which is for creating many schedule lines at once in a repetitive schedule.
  2. It provides commands to insert and remove a range of dates from an event. (Conversely you now only set event duration when you create an event from scratch).
  3. Create Schedule, Delete Schedule, Schedule Properties are now here.

Miscellaneous:

  1. You can now hide all the empty days in a sparse schedule by clicking on any Hide All Empty Days link.
  2. You now specify unlimited signups via a 0 rather than by leaving field blank.

Other changes

Search-related:

  1. Added today-relative dates to Search (enter +n/-n).
  2. Search date ranges are now specified via 2 date fields (use * for unlimited endpoint).
  3. Search's Signup section now allows you to restrict a Search to either a planning or on-site activity.
  4. Added wildcarding (*) and alphabetic scanning (Capital 1st letter and range items) to dynamic menus, and moved dynamic-menus help into UI Basics page.

New features:

  1. Email Announcement's When to Deliver box now has option to schedule messages to the people signed up for on-site tasks. A person will receive a message the specified number of days before (or after) each task she is signed up for.
  2. You can now set an event's duration via an end date, as well as a via a count.
  3. Added the URL data type for form fields. The label for such a field is a link to the page (or image) identified by the field's value.

New terminology:

  1. The activity type Foreground On-site Task was renamed Main On-site Task.
  2. The Public Schedule term/page was renamed to Event Synopsis. Accordinly its link on Self-Signup Home was changed from (details) to (synopsis).

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