Event Manager Release Archive

Enhanced Location Selection for Packages Section

Navigation: Settings > Invoice Settings > Packages

 

On the Invoice Settings page, the packages section is enhanced to provide consistency is location selection and improve performance across the platform.

 

The aim of this enhancement is to improve user experience. System responsiveness has increased and is visible to customers using a greater number of locations. The location selector is also used consistently across the entire application. For more details, click here.

 

Tracking Email History in Event Manager Application

Event Manager is enhanced to maintain a log of all emails that are sent. Admins can view or sort these emails on the basis of date range, subject, and email address of the receiver.

 

Benefit: This is expected to provide transparency in email history.

 

On the Settings page, under the Global Administration tile, the Email Settings option is added. This option is available only for tenant administrators. For more details, click here.

 

Added a New Filter Option for Reports

Under this enhancement, a new filter option Next_Days is introduced. This filter is added to the Reporting Period category and is available on the Edit Report Template page. The filter is made available for all reports in Event Manager.

 

This enhancement makes it easier to filter the reports as you can specify the number of days for which they want to see the data. The filter accepts only positive integers and can take a maximum of three characters as input.

For more details, click here.

 

Increased Number of Rows Per List on Specific Pages

Event Manager is enhanced to create lists containing 20 rows up from 8 rows. When a page is displayed, you see a maximum of 20 rows instead of 8 at once. To see more rows, you have to click the arrow icon to see the next page. This is expected to bring relief to users who need to do fewer clicks to find the right information.

 

This change applies to the following pages:

• Events List

• Pending Events

• Aggregated List

• Invoice List

• Payment List

• Tasks

Added the Option to Review Event Details Before Editing

Under this enhancement, the Events List page is enhanced by extending the Review Event functionality that is already available for Pending events. This is aimed at bringing consistency and enabling customers to quickly review the events without making changes.

 

On the user interface, the Review Event option is added to the Actions dropdown list (also available in quick view). Selecting this option opens the event form in read-only mode. To make edits in read-only mode, from the left pane under Actions, select the Edit Event option. For more information click here.

 

NOTE  This functionality covers both individual events as well as events created in a series.

Added the Ability to Associate a Feature with a Fee

Event Manager is enhanced to enable you to select features that have a fee associated with them at the time of creating an event. This provides transparency to the requester about the actual cost of the event. It also helps in generating revenue. The effort involved in invoicing the event is expected to be greatly reduced.

 

There are user interface changes related to this enhancement. The admin user is empowered to define the fee, fee type, and capacity related to the feature. To learn about the fields added to the popup for adding or editing a feature, click here.

 

The Event Manager application displays the estimated cost for holding an event. When you select the quantity related to a feature the cost estimate changes in real time. To learn more about this enhancement, click here.

Option to Remove Organization Name from Community Event Forms

The system is enhanced to configure providing the organization name on the Community Event form as mandatory or optional. It is also possible to hide it on the form.

 

Benefits

This change will have a positive impact on user participation and a number of requestors who reserve spaces for one-off events, such as a birthday, or a wedding will benefit. They no longer need to go through the complex process of associating with an organization before they can submit event requests on the Community site.

 

The community site settings must be updated and the Allow Public Event Submission check box is introduced. For detailed steps, click here.

 

On the Community Event request form, clear the Required check box to make the Organization name optional and select the Hide check box to remove it from the form altogether. For more information, click here.