Reminder alerts for calendar events

Margo - I like that idea as well.  We will look at including that with Groupsites Vers. 2 (V2) that is in the lab and coming soon.

Shaun

I support this idea. It is certainly an idea that has been floating around for a while. It is particularly relevant for my group which makes the calendar of events central.

I am considering moving a group to this site from other providers (Y! & G) and quite frankly the Calendar Alerts is a major roadblock.  I have seen some others that let the user choose Calendar alerts - text or email, and how far in advance (minutes, hours, days) prior to that the alert is enabled.  I see your post that something along this line could be in the next release, but that was mentioned in May.  Is this still in the works and what is the timeline? 

Bob - Calendars alerts are a great request and we look forward to having that ability.  They will not make this next release, however.  Sorry. I do agree that they are a needed feature.

Shaun

Bugger - this calendar feature would have been great for our group

It is important for our group as well.  It is a major benefit.  We can use RSVP function sort of like a "forced" reminder, but that requires human intervention.  I noticed Ning also lets you send messages to groups of folks based on whether they have RSVP'd, Pending, Not Responded, Not attending, etc.  That, too, is nice.

Chris - I also like the idea of being able to email blast subsets based on Calendar event response status. We'll take it to the whiteboard and see how we can make it happen.

Shaun

bump... any update?

Any updates on reminder alerts for calendar events.  Would be very useful to our groups.

Of course, I'm very interested in this, too, and am adding my vote that this become high priority. :)

I agree too! I had just assumed that the Groupsite's calendar emailed everyone and hence we had a bunch of folks miss a meeting when it didn't. I would love to hear when this functionality is going to come online.

Thanks.

Just wanted you to know that this is rapidly becoming the most-requested feature of our group members, in addition to the ability of the event creator to get notifications of RSVPs and comments.

That's great to hear! Thanks for the update.

*ping*  I need this too!  Need event reminders!  Need event reminders!

Note that Meetup.com has automatic event reminders that go out 14, 7, and 1 day before the events.