Decisions For Heroes Blog

SMS is live! But not enabled in your accounts yet. We’re currently testing with a selection of Irish teams.

Exciting Times!

-Robin.

How cool is this! Hot off the deployment list yesterday were ‘Response Level Requirements’. You can now [Update Details...] on any group or qualification in the [Members] area and set a required response level.

Your team might decide you always need available at all times - 3 key holders, 4 climbers with ‘Cliff Course I’ level, and 2 First Responders. If a team member marks themselves unavailable and response levels drop below your thresholds we’ll alert you on your dashboard.

And yes - soon we’ll be emailing you if this occurs in the future (rather than ‘live’) and sending you an SMS to alert you in real-time too!

Today we deployed calendar pop-up’s site-wide. This is the most requested feature so-far, and makes a huge difference to data input. Just click the calendar button to pop-up a calendar. You can then click the month name to open the navigator, this will allow fast selecting of any month and year.

To make time entry easier, we’ve added an auto-complete clock. Once you start typing, we’ll start trying to guess what time you’re entering. You can then select from the list or keep typing yourself.

There’s no better way to understand a product than use it yourself. The entering of invalid times used to be possible - no longer!

In other news, we hit a good milestone today as we managed to send and receive the first realtime SMS messages from the application to Irish handsets.

-Robin.

(Interested in how? We are using YUI… if you wanted to try it yourself.)