What's New
New updates and improvements to Grobu
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New
One of the key features of Grobu has now been added - the ability to create scheduling polls for your future events! This is really a major enhancement, because not only does it represent one of Grobu's core features & differentiators, but all of the infrastructure put into place to support it will allow us to add other fun features in the future (such as additional types of polls).
Using the new poll feature is pretty easy - when you create an event, you now select the event status:
Using the new poll feature is pretty easy - when you create an event, you now select the event status:
- Draft (no schedule poll, not scheduled - you are just creating a placeholder for the future),
- Scheduling Poll (there's a scheduling poll to determine the event date & time)
- Scheduled (the event has a confirmed date & time).
Right now the poll is hard-coded to 3 options -- this will be fixed to be flexible in a future release. (In fact, there are a LOT of known issues & improvement ideas related to polling that we've already documented! The feature is definitely not "final"!) For each option, the organizer picks a start & end date & time.
You still have to invite other group members to the event in order for them to be notified of the poll and to be able to vote in it. When invited attendees vote, they get 3 buttons or each option:
You still have to invite other group members to the event in order for them to be notified of the poll and to be able to vote in it. When invited attendees vote, they get 3 buttons or each option:
- Preferred - this is a preferred option for me (worth 2 points)
- Yes - this option works (worth 1 point)
- No - this option does not work (0 points)
Once at least one person has voted, the options will show a voting score.
Polls have a deadline (defaults to +3 days from event creation). At the moment this deadline doesn't mean anything -- members can still vote once the deadline has passed (if the organizer has not yet finalized the poll), but this may change in the future.
At any time, the organizer may finalize the poll by selecting one of the options - that option will become the date & time of the event (and then voting will be locked down and the event will become scheduled).
As noted above - there are a LOT of enhancement ideas (and some known issues) related to polling - we'll be polishing this feature in the coming weeks to make it an even more effective tool for organizers to gather their parties!
Polls have a deadline (defaults to +3 days from event creation). At the moment this deadline doesn't mean anything -- members can still vote once the deadline has passed (if the organizer has not yet finalized the poll), but this may change in the future.
At any time, the organizer may finalize the poll by selecting one of the options - that option will become the date & time of the event (and then voting will be locked down and the event will become scheduled).
As noted above - there are a LOT of enhancement ideas (and some known issues) related to polling - we'll be polishing this feature in the coming weeks to make it an even more effective tool for organizers to gather their parties!