Events: Ability to Change Active Back to Draft

Jonathan Kersten

April 25, 2023 10:13

The feature request we would like is the ability to move an event from active back to draft.

• Our process is that the consultant requests the event, but Ops publishes it
• Our process is also that if a change to an event needs to happen, the consultant must cancel the original event and re-enter a new event, noting the change that needs to be made
• Ops searches by “draft” and “canceled” for items to action

 

What we (Ops) see:

• Occasionally, the PC publishes the event by mistake (process miss). Since we search by draft and canceled, Ops isn’t notified and the event is not actioned/created in Saba
• For the Q2 forecast, we already have 57 canceled events – Q2 begins May 1
• Of the 57 cancelations, 33 are modification requests, so new events have to be created.

 

Impact:

• If we have the ability to move an event from active to draft, this will eliminate a tremendous amount of duplication of efforts.
• Since we started tracking, we have had 248 such cancel/re-enters

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• Official comment

  

  Gilles Benyon-Bell

  May 22, 2023 23:18

  Hi Jonathan,

  This is not something we have planned on the roadmap in the upcoming 12 months. However, I wondered if adding a custom field to the event such as a checkbox called "change needed" (or something that suits your organization) would work. That way, you could have a daily report sent via an automatic trigger (or even just a bookmark with the report url so you can see it always in real time.

  Many thanks

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