Suggestion: add option to suggest and verify scheduling placement

[O'Brien, Tom]

Hi folks,

I wanted to suggest a helpful new feature to MSP: the option to suggest and verify a scheduled volunteer's assignment.

Here's the use case: When I schedule manually (during Covid, in particular), I place volunteers in the slot I want them, then I immediately email them manually asking them if they can serve on that day and time. I use the schedule as my placeholder to indicate to me I've covered all the bases. If they accept, great. If they refuse I look for another. But sometimes I forgot if the volunteer actually agreed, or did I just put him/her there?

It would be very helpful to be able to flag the placement as a "suggestion" by me and to let the volunteer verify the placement; or I could do it when I hear back from them. If they refuse the placement, the system keeps their name in the slot, but flags them as "refused by volunteer", letting me know I have to find someone else. 

Perhaps this could be used even for automatically scheduled placements, too. It would be very handy to know a volunteer has actually seen his/her assignment and agreed to it or refused it.

I realize this impacts programming and is not an easy new feature to add. But I wonder if others would find this to be a new feature they would actually use?

Easter blessings,

Deacon Tom

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Deacon Tom O'Brien

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Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church

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[Dorothy DeLuca]

I am handling assignments in the exact same way during COVID.  It would be a great feature - I second it.

Dorothy

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[Raina Hanson]

Hi Tom and Dorothy, 

Thanks so much for your feedback! I have added this to our feature requests for future consideration. 

If anyone else would like this feature, please let me know so I can add your name to the request list. 

Best, 

Raina Hanson

Director of Technical Support

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