Allowing users/reporters "view only" Web UI access to see their dispatched items on the calendar would be a nice feature.
I dispatch thousands of items almost a year in advance. Users have a +60 day window prior to the due date where they can start prepping for the event(s). All events must be completed within the month they are due.
Some months are heavy, some months are light. The complexity of each event varies greatly depending on the size/type of equipment involved. All are legally required, so moving the dates to balance the load is not really an option. However, if the users could look ahead at their dispatches on the calendar, it would allow them to schedule support staff/equipment accordingly in order to better manage their work load.
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Hey Keith,
Thanks for this request. I will say that we're working on functionality that would allow users to see future Dispatches on mobile (I'm not sure how far in advance it'll show, but at least a week). It will likely be in a list view not a calendar. For your use case, would it be most helpful to have the a month in advance, or the full 60-day window?
Thanks!
I am ok with the users seeing what's coming months in advance. Not something I really need them to see on mobile but if they are in the office and want to know what is coming in the next couple months or even 6 months out that would be great.
Just like a GoCanvas employee can see more options than the customers, being an account administrator, I see more than the users. I didn't even realize user/reporters can't see the calendar.
In the interim, would doing a zap to a google calendar potentially work? Basically this: https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360016431353-Go-Canvas-Dispatch-Calendar-show-on-Google-Calendar.
You'd have an App that creates the Dispatch as its own Submission; that Submission would create the calendar event in Google AND create the new Dispatch to the original App.
It's a little kludgy but maybe a decent workaround given you're already zapping things all over the place :)