Collection Calendar Automation - All Day Events
Currently, when the collection item does not specify a start time, the automation is set to default 8 AM. Filevine supports an "All Day" tick box. The automation set up does not recognize this concept. I understand that Filevine does not offer the ability to add a custom field of type "tick box."
Having said that, the automation could support the use of a radio button style drop-down with options such as "Appointment" or "All Day" Within the custom collection. From a design perspective, this would allow us to design visibility options for the time fields. Within the automation, "All Day" would be interpreted as an all-day event and tick that box when creating the calendar item.
From a practical perspective, any event with no beginning time is not an 8 AM event. It means that this is something we want to appear on the calendar as an all-day event. Because Filevine integrates with Outlook, most attorneys tend to look to their Outlook calendars for these types of events. Crowding them into the 8 AM slot is not going to be conducive to their workflow.
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I would like to add in additional concept related to "All Day Events." The collection calendar automation set up asks for field codes to identify the beginning time of an event. The end time offers the option of either a default duration or a field code identifying the end time. It seems to me that we should be able to identify within the automation itself whether the specific calendar date is an "All Day Event."
In a specific example, we have a single collection item that maintains seven unique dates. One of those dates includes a beginning and ending time. The other six dates are all day events. In order to populate these items, I have created seven unique collection calendar automations. I should be able to designate within the latter six dates that these are all day events for calendar purposes.
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