A new workflow, email alert and email template have been added to HandsOn Connect making it possible to send an email notification to a Partner-Managed Opportunity Coordinator when an ongoing Individually Scheduled Opportunity is reaching its end date. This can serve as a reminder to OC's that they may wish to extend the end date of the occurrence of this opportunity so it will continue to be published and available for volunteers to express interest.

The new workflow is named "Opportunity Expiration Notice for ISO Opportunities"
The new email alert is named "Opportunity Expiration Notice for ISO"
The new email template is named "Opportunity Expiration Notice for Individually Scheduled Opportunities"

It is up to your organization if you'd like this new email notification to be part of your system workflows. If so, this workflow needs to be manually updated by a system administrator. Here are the simple steps involved (this will take less than 5 minutes!)

1. Go to Setup / Workflows and select the workflow "Opportunity Expiration Notice for ISO Opportunities.

2. Click on the Clone Button

3. Add a '1' to the end of the rule name, so that your clone is now named "Opportunity Expiration Notice for ISO Opportun ities 1".      

Do not change anything else on this page. This will create an unmanaged version of the workflow to which you can add a time based trigger.

4. Click on "Save & Next"

5. In the 'Time-Dependent Workflow Actions' section click on 'Add Time Trigger'

6. Set the workflow time trigger to activate "7 days before Volunteer Opportunity: End Date" and click save.

7. Inside the recently created time depend action click in "Add Workflow Action" and select 'Select Existing Action'

8. Choose Action Type "Email Alert" - and select the action "Email Alert: Opportunity Expiration Notice for ISO", move it to the selected action column and click save.

9. Click on 'Done"

10.  Click on "Activate" to make the workflow active.

This workflow will automatically send an email to the Opportunity Coordinator 7 days before their opportunity reaches its end date.

The email has details on how to extend the listing, as well as best practices for working with Individually Scheduled Opportunities.  The default email template text is shown below.  (Note: You can edit the email template if you desire).  

Organizations with a large number of occurrences / volunteer opportunities were finding that not all posting statuses were being updated as expected.  Adjustments have been made that should correct performance so that each night the posting status of each occurrence / opportunity is brought up to date.  (i.e. it would no longer be showed as published after the occurrence date is in the past.

For countries outside the United States, the requirement for a location to indicate the 'State" (in addition to the city), has been removed. State is only a required field if your default country is United States.

For International customers using chinese fonts / characters, the check-in sheet in the sharing portal will now display names that are in Chinese.

For those customers in the pilot for the new Featured Opportunity Block, the performance of 'tagging' opportunities to display in the block has been improved.  Previously one had to wait 24 hours before a tagged opportunity showed up in the block.  Now the block should update within 5 minutes of adding the tag.