Post of interest to call administrators.
Roles are an essential component of ProposalSpace. Not only do they allow for greater flexibility when collecting proposal information, they also make certain functionality possible, like the Advanced Scheduling Module’s conflict checker.
Unfortunately, they’re also one of the most misunderstood and misused features.
So what are roles?
If you’re using our Publishing Module, there’s a slight change you should know about:
In the search box, the names that are displayed in the name-search field (right) are now pulled from the sessions instead of from user profiles.
We’ve made an exciting update to the Review Module that now allows conditional questions as part of a custom review form!
What’s a “conditional question”, you might ask? Continue reading Conditional Review Questions
Most current web browsers have a helpful feature called “autocomplete” that fills in form fields for you based on information you’ve entered into similar fields in the past. You’ve probably seen this if you’ve started to fill out a form asking for something like your mailing address… You start to type something in the first field (usually your first name) and the browser displays a drop-down list with suggestions for autofilling the form. If you select one of the suggestions, the browser magically fills in all the other fields in the form (address, city, state, etc.) without you having to type anything in.
The autocomplete feature can save a lot of time and effort when you’re filling out forms… but not in all cases. Continue reading Autocomplete & Form Fields
Just a quick note to announce some improvements to the Dashboard:
Continue reading Dashboard Updates
Submission received!As soon as our system receives a submission, it immediately emails a receipt to the person who submitted the proposal and, if different, the person who created the proposal. Previously, the contents of that email weren’t editable.
Now, with our new Custom Receipt Module, you can customize the receipt by editing the Subject line and adding text to the body of the message. Continue reading New Feature: Customizable Submission Receipt
We’re improving the layout of the review page to make it easier than ever to review proposals in ProposalSpace!
We’ve got another exciting new feature for call admins! Now, you can allow review chairs to approve submissions for review.
Continue reading New Feature: Review-Chair Submission Approvals
We’ve added a new feature to the Tracker: Now, review chairs can see submissions that have been returned for edits.
Continue reading New Feature: Returned Submissions for Review Chairs
We’ve got another new feature to announce! Call admins can now fine-tune the settings that are included when copying a call.