Text Message Reminders

[Kris Verdeyen]

Now all you need to do is set up a 5 minute warning before each match (filtered by team number, of course) when you get the match list. And maybe something I could ping to get the real time standings! Or even.... <Kris is abruptly silenced by Brandon>

Seriously, though - this is great. All I get now is the weather report every morning, and "73 and sunny", while comforting, is getting boring.

[Jon K.]

Hey Brandon this is awesome, now to just pray to the FIRST gods that I don't have a practice match and if I do.... Hey Lisa you wanna coach that one?

But seriously, now I should remember it, and with any luck I won't be grabbing people half way into the webhug and trying to find it like last year.

[Conor Ryan]

one quick question, you mentioned in your original post that it was 90% done, is it 100% done? Or is that last 10% the actual using of it?

[Greg Needel]

i was wondering if it would be possible to add a reminder for the Passover Seder that is going to be taking place after the awards before the wrap party. i can give you time and date information if needed. thanks

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by cdr1122334455

one quick question, you mentioned in your original post that it was 90% done, is it 100% done? Or is that last 10% the actual using of it?

Oh, no. It's done. The 10% that needed to be done was tested last week. It's ready go to --

[Brandon Martus]

yeah, silly bug on my part.
it all worked fine until there were 2 users requesting reminders!

this should all be working now.

32 people registered already.
27 confirmed.

i guess this was a good thing.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Tom, those all are shown but you won't get any reminders unless you click the 'request reminder' on the right. When a reminder is going to be sent, the link changes to say 'remove reminder' in bold. I probably need to make that more obvious. Hmm.

I kind of figured that one out, but it is not letting me remove the reminders. (Unless it is and just not showing it..) The "remove reminder" link stays even after I follow it and get a "Reminder Deleted" notification page.

[Brandon Martus]

The dispatch script is now running. Cross your fingers.

I tested it out as best I could without actually sending out text messages. That's what this Friday evening is for. If you want to help, go sign up for a reminder for the 'test' event that's in the list. On Friday, when you get the message please send me a PM saying you got it (or IM if you see me on AIM) and describe any problems you may have had.

If you get any weird (unexpected) text messages please contact me so I can shut off the server and fix the problem.

Thanks.

[Ryan Albright]

brandon going have a big pm inbox on friday eh?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Ryan Albright

brandon going have a big pm inbox on friday eh?

'big' is relative

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[Ryan Albright]

well you just found a way to double it

I am guessing that it will get to 3700 any takers?

Originally Posted by Ryan Albright

well you just found a way to double it

I am guessing that it will get to 3700 any takers?

No way....bet you a coke that it doesnt break more then 2800

[Joe Johnson]

Great idea. One suggestion I have is the organization of the data.

I think that it would be much nicer to have the events in rows with all the reminders on the same row on the right side (perhaps with a check box?).

You could check or uncheck all the reminders you want (5m, 30m, etc.) then hit "UPDATE" on the left.

Of course, the page would come up with your current choices marked so all you'd have to do to get off the list is uncheck the box and hit UPDATE.

The reason I am thinking this is better is that we only have 3 events and the screen is pretty busy already plus the "REQUEST REMINDER" text looks a lot like the "UNREQUEST REMINDER" text. Imagine pages of them once we get going with this feature. YIKES!

I think the rows with events and columns showing reminders requested or not would be a much cleaner, more information packed, easier to understand interface.

How hard is this to do? That is not my department ;-)

For what it is worth.

Joe J.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

Great idea. One suggestion I have is the organization of the data.

Yeah, I want to change the output a bit. I jumped the gun and released it faster than I should have, but I wanted people to help me test it out before we really needed to use it. The layout of the request page will most likely change this weekend sometime. I worked so hard getting the query to get that data to show (believe me, it was a tough few hours), I neglected to make sure it was easily usable.

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

No way....bet you a coke that it doesnt break more then 2800

Your on