I wanted to take this opportunity to “resurrect” (and expand on) a previous feature request that was already in the backlog some time last year per the responses to this request:
It seems like a radio button to only send reminders to “Maybe” respondents would be desirable as well. It looks like the “only Yes” and “Yes and Maybe” cases got handled in the roll-out.
In an “I’d like to have my cake and eat it, too” world, the ability to tag specific reminders with who to notify could be handy.
For example, consider this use case:
Event X requires sign-ups prior to a particular date. The first reminder message (which might be a first announcement) should go to everyone. That’s kinda captured in the current system by sending to “Yes” and “Maybe”, since the calendar now defaults to “Maybe” again.
The second reminder message (which is sent prior to the deadline) might only want to go to the “Maybe” respondents, because those who already said “Yes” don’t need to be reminded to sign-up. There is no way to do this with the current options.
The final reminder message (after the deadline) might only want to go to the “Yes” respondents, since those are the folks who are actually planning to attend (in theory). The existing system can kinda do this by setting the “only Yes” option.
So, two of the three potential use cases can be handled by manual intervention (i.e. going in after the first “all call” goes out and switching to “only Yes”. However, that middle reminder use case could potentially be an issue, since there’s no way to even work-around by fiddling with the reminder options (since there’s no “Maybe only” radio button).
