Product Update: A Few Notes on RSVPs & a Fix For Weekly Event URLs

Our regular Product Updates give you a rundown of the features and bug fixes that were rolled out over the past week, plus a look ahead to some of the bigger changes that are on the way.

With the DoStuff office closed last Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving calendar, there is a little less to report than the average week. But that doesn’t mean we’ve been sitting around doing nothing...

RSVP Guestlists: “Bad” RSVP List Field Is Going Away

Back at the end of October, we added in a new dropdown menu for sending RSVP guestlists to partners. This dropdown fixed the old timezone issue where you would need to estimate the speed of the rotation of the Earth just to send out a guestlist on time.

When we added the new (“GOOD”) field, we told you we’ve give you a few weeks to transition all your RSVPs over. Well, time is up.

Friday morning the “BAD” field will disappear -- so take the next day to make sure all your RSVPs are switched over to the new field and the old one is left blank.

RSVP +1: Does NOT Affect The Vote Count

A quick note about RSVP +1 that shouldn’t be new to anyone, but we still wanted to clarify.

Last week we shared that RSVP +1 has now been fixed and added to Radmin. If you set up an RSVP +1 in the back-end, users can check a box on the front-end saying they would like to add a +1. This does NOT change the vote count, however, so do not look at the number on your Event page as an estimate of head count.

If you need to give your partner an accurate headcount, download the guestlist from Radmin, import it into Google Docs or Excel, and add up the number of RSVPs and +1’s that way.

URLs for Weekly Events Fixed

There was a bug where weekly repeating Events would be set up with the same URL if they had the same title (e.g. http://do314.com/events/weekly/sat/happy-hour). This meant that Event cards and other links would often send you to the wrong Event page.

This has been fixed and all new weekly repeating Events will given a unique URL. The system checks for a match and adds a footer to the end of the URL in the case that a match is detected. No more misdirected links!