Custom Repeats, or Date Selection, for Groups (like how it is for Services) | Voters

Custom Repeats, or Date Selection, for Groups (like how it is for Services)

Andrew McKenna

We have groups that don't meet weekly or monthly, but (for example) every 2 or 3 weeks, or on custom dates. We would still like to manage these through the Groups feature (for they are Groups), but would like more custom options for setting the dates groups meet on.

February 1, 2019

Sabrina Sherman

Merged in a post:

Quick Delete Calendar

Micah Sullivan

Would be great to quickly delete items off the calendar. I.E. our groups are set to go year around, but we have an upcoming off day. Would be cool to just quickly edit those off the calendar in Elvanto.

July 7, 2023

Sabrina Sherman

Merged in a post:

Global Holiday Breaks - Group categories and other features

Benjamin West

It would be great to be able to specify global holiday dates across the whole of Elvanto. Then we could enable "Global Holiday Breaks" for a Group Category > then each of the groups could be set to inherit/follow this rule or not.
For example, many/most of our small groups do not meet during school holidays. This causes great problems when it comes to a fortnightly group that doesn't meet, but when they do come back, they are then out of sequence and therefore do not receive the reminders for group attendance.
Therefore, if "Global Holiday Breaks" is followed, the group will meet the very next appropriate day after the holidays end - e.g. the first Thursday after this and then two weeks after that.

June 26, 2023

Sabrina Sherman

Merged in a post:

GROUP CALENDAR UPDATE

Sanna Butler

Hi, I would like to suggest adding a feature to groups. It would be great to be able to schedule an entire year allowing for school holiday breaks. As it is now, we can only schedule at the start of every term so that the group doesn’t appear on our calendar during school holidays. 
Thanks
Sanna

June 12, 2023

Sabrina Sherman

Hi Sanna :)
Thank you for this request.
This isn't currently something we have on our roadmap, but we do watch trending posts on this platform so if this request is upvoted that helps our team understand what the majority of our customers really need and want.
I am going to go ahead and merge this with another request for this so that you votes can count together.
If anything progresses, you will be updated on this post.
Sabrina

Sanna Butler

Sabrina Sherman: thanks Sabrina .. it would be super helpful and save a lot of work

Kirralee Burnett

Wondering how we are going with this? Most of our life groups who meet on Sundays do not meet fortnightly, but every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. I find I am spending excessive amounts of time following up on this, as the automated reminders are being sent quite regularly on the off weeks these groups meet due to not being able to more accurately schedule these.

It would be great if the options were more varied, such as what you find in the custom reoccurence option of Google Calendar when adding events.

Sabrina Sherman

Kirralee Burnett: Hey Kirralee :) If you select "monthly" for the group, you can check which weeks in the month they meet, and 2nd and 4th Sunday is an option. Hope that helps!

Sabrina Sherman

Hey Micah :)
As it stands now, if you are in the Admin area calendar, clicking into the item in question allows you to delete it whether it's a service, group, or event (if you have the access permission assigned that allows you to do so). Are you wanting to not have to click into each calendar item?
Let me know when you can. I want to make sure you know the existing options available to you. Hope that helps!
Sabrina

Micah Sullivan

Sabrina Sherman: yes. It would be very helpful and easy to just have a button that said edit or delete. And then any items you highlighted could be removed.

Matt Libardi

I'd like to see this feature incorporated to allow us an automatic way of turning off Reporting Reminders. At the moment the groups can only run year round, where as our groups follow the school term (4 x 10 weeks). Being able to set dates more intricately, would mean reminders are not sent out when groups are not meeting.

Kyle Douglass

I would like to schedule groups not based on every two weeks but on the 2nd, 4th, 5th, etc. days of week in a month. We have several groups that meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, or the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month. As some months have a 5th of some days, it doesn't work to use the "every X weeks" option. Google Cal supports this feature nicely in custom frequency.

MLC Admin

Just wondering if there are any updates for this? 
Our groups stop meeting in the school holidays so would be great if we could delete individual meetings rather than having to set a complete end date. We have tried setting meetings up as events within the group (which allows you to delete individual occurrences) however this loses the reporting feature which we value a lot. 
Thanks in advance.

Stewart Polley

Thanks for leaving this suggestion. We've been wanting to look into something like this for a while, but hadn't quite up with a nice way of doing it. While we might not implement it exactly as described, this is a really good starting point for us to look into.

Saves having to go into each individual group all the time as well.

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