Scheduled Reminders for Events

Background Information

• Event Reminder MIH
• MIH Sponsor Page
• Blog post on proposed feature set

Features

• Ability to schedule a mailing 'n' days before / after the event start date / end date OR on a specific date.
  • e.g. An event admin can schedule a reminder email 7 days before the event and a thank you email 1 day after the event.
• Ability to schedule a mailing 'n' days before / after the event start date / end date for all events of a specific event type
  • e.g. An event admin can schedule the emails above for all events of type Training
• Ability to decide who the recipient list is based
  • Participant role (attendee, sponsor, volunteer)
  • Participant status (Pending, Registered, Wait Listed, Cancelled)
  • CiviCRM Group
• Ability to type the text/html message and subject or use a civicrm message template.
• Ability to include event information in the message as "civicrm mail tokens". The list of tokens will include:
  • Event ID
  • Event Title
  • Event Location
  • Event Description
  • Event Fees
  • Event Info URL
  • Event Registration URL
• Ability to do the event type scheduling via the "CiviCRM Action Schedule" page and the specific event scheduling as an additional tab in the event interface
• Ability to add multiple actions per event type and/or event name
  • i.e. they could be different email messages for each event

Schedule

This feature is being targeted for CiviCRM 4.1 (a Drupal 7 / Joomla 1.6 only) release. Current timeframe is Sept/Oct 2011