Event updates: Freezing registrations and sending change alerts

Freezing event registrations
It is now possible to prevent registrants from changing their schedule within a certain number of days of an event. This can also be used to prevent people from registering for activities in the past. Enable this option by going to advanced options on the event setup page.

Alerts for last minute changes
Alerts can be sent when someone changes their response to an event with a certain number of days of its occurrence. To help control the volume of email sent, the alerts are not sent until after someone logs off the website. The number of days for alerts and the person to receive the alerts is defined on the event setup page under advanced options.

Rich Text for Event Information
The event information field now has a rich text editor to make it easier to embed links and add other formatting to the description. The controls are similar to what you would see in a word processor.

Event Registration
If an event is either freezing dates, or sending alert emails, a notice will show up on the event signup page under the information box to alert members.

Please let me know if you have any questions about these changes.

The email center is being updated to include a sent mail report that allows administrators to view messages sent from the email center. The new report includes details about who received the message, if they opened it, and if they unsubscribed as a result of the message. Recipient email settings determine if we can track the opening of a message so the opened statistic may under report. To help save time, messages can now be copied and forwarded to others.

The email tool has been updated as well with performance enhancements and interface tweaks. Now when sending a message, the page will display a “please wait message” while the emails are sent. If it takes more then few seconds to send the mail, the page will forgo the final confirmation message and continue processing the emails in the background. The new sent mail report is always available to view the finial status of any submission.