Generally we recommend that these emails are sent automatically by the system.  They serve a purpose and insure clear communications to volunteers and Opportunity Coordinators.   But in some circumstances,

• you may have a partner who has requested that they NOT get a notification every time a volunteer signs up for their occurrences.  
• You might have a volunteer leader who doesn't want an automated Post Opportunity email sent, because they want to send a personal thank you email instead.
• You might have an ongoing opportunity occurrence where you don't want a confirmation email sent out every time someone signs up.
• If you want to send a custom email in place of the normal system email template - you can suppress the normal email for this occurrence, and then create a custom workflow that sends a different email template when connections are made for this specific occurrence.  This gives you the ability to tailor your email communications on an occurrence by occurrence basis without having to change the default workflow or trigger for all other occurrences / connections.

If you don't need this level of control over email communications, then there is no need to enable this functionality.  However, its been added to make this possible for advanced system administrators who wish finer control over emails sent by the system.

Our recommendation is that you limit access to this functionality to system admins and internal staff.  Your staff is trained and understands the ramifications of suppressing normal system emails, and can administratively suppress emails on behalf of your partners and volunteer leaders upon request.

You can choose to give access to these fields in the occurrence page layout for partner staff (and volunteer leaders), but if you choose to do so, you are giving them the power to potentially confuse their volunteers (who may not receive useful emails), or to opt to remain ignorant as to whether or not volunteers are signing up for their occurrences.

The choice is yours.  However, our recommendation is for you to enable this for internal use only initially, and later, if desired, roll it out to partners by using permission sets to control which partners and VLs can access these fields.

Go to setup / Objects / Occurrences / Page Layouts and click on 'edit' for Staff Occurrence Layout v3.   (For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll assume your system admin and staff are both using the latest occurrence page layout, which is Staff Occurrence Layout v3.)

If you've not edited a page layout before, see this chapter on modifying page layouts.

If you've added other "Advanced Options" to the occurrence page layout, the best place to add your new section is just below the 'Advanced Options" section.  However you can place this new section anywhere on the page you like.

• Create a new, 2-column section called "Email Management for this Occurrence"
• Add the six fields shown in the screenshot below to this section.   (You can also choose to only add some of these six fields)

Save the Page Layout

Then also edit the occurrence page layout "Partner Staff Occurrence v3"

Check the partner and/or Volunteer Leader profile and make sure they have read/write access to these fields.   OR -- for finer control of which portal users can use this feature, remove Read / Edit access to these six fields in the staff and/or VL profile, and then create a permission set granting read/write access to these fields.  

See this article for more information on what each of these fields do.

Do Not Send Confirmation Email:

• Opportunity Sign up Confirmation - Affilliate Managed (full sign up)
• Opportunity Sign-up Confirmation - Partner calendar full sign up
• Opportunity Sign up Confirmation - Affiliate Managed - Date and Time Specific - EI
• Opportunity Sign up Confirmation - Affiliate Managed - To Be Scheduled
• Opportunity Sign up Confirmatiion - Ongoing Opportunity — (partner managed)
• Opportunity Sign up Confirmation - Partner Calendar email only (express interest)

Do not send Reminder Email

• Opportunity Reminder - Affiliate Managed
• Opportunity Reminder - Partner Managed

Do not send Post Opportunity Email

• Post Opportunity - Affiliate Managed
• Post Opportunity - Partner Managed

Do not send email of Vol. in Waitlist

• Notification of Volunteer in Wait List

Do not send email of Volunteer Signups

• Notification of Volunteer Signups

Do not send email of Volunteer Removals

• Notification of Volunteer Removals