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Hi Kym,
Thanks very much for taking the time to share your thoughts! I very much appreciate it, and certainly your idea of throwing the words “Signup Genius” into some text, and pitching my plugins as an alternative, is a very good idea. There are other signup type plugins out there already, and there seems to be a pretty good event calendar plugin made by the same developers who do a commercial Event Manager plugin, which seems to be doing pretty well. So, there is definitely some competition. In fact, as mentioned elsewhere, my own Sign Ups plugin started its life as another plugin at WordPress.org, simply called Sign Up Sheets (still active), and they had their own “pro” version.
As far as plugins that sell, the WooCommerce extensions I have created sell far more than the extensions for any of the “PTA” plugins… but, even those don’t sell enough to justify the time I put into them. However, at least those plugins work as a form of “advertising” and have been responsible for me landing several quite large custom programming projects.
Unless I get super busy again with custom jobs, I’ll probably end up doing it, because I do somewhat enjoy the “puzzle” aspect of putting something like this together… although, then I’m bringing a whole bunch of extra support work my way, which I don’t really enjoy so much (and takes up WAY too much of my time).
I’m certainly open to any type of marketing suggestions, even if it involves commissions to have other people help me license it to organizations. To do it right, though, I basically have to start from scratch and rework the whole database structure, and get it much more object oriented and easier to maintain. So, I don’t see this happening before spring or summer at the earliest. But, still not 100% sure it’s the right use of my time at this point.
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October 28, 2019 at 9:05 AM in reply to: An error occurred while updating PTA Volunteer Sign Up Sheet Groups Extension: #26931Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
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Stephen SherrardKeymasterThe plugin already creates the Sign Up Sheet Manager role…
Have you read the documentation?
https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheets-documentation/Another copy and paste from the documentation for you:
User Roles – Sign-up Sheet Manager
This plugin adds a new user role to the WordPress system called “Sign-up Sheet Manager”. This role is the same as the “Author” role, except that it adds the “manage_signup_sheets” capability. If you have users who you want to allow to create, edit, and view sign-up sheets on the admin side, but don’t want them to have full admin access, you can either assign them to the Sign-up Sheet Manager role, or use some type of role/capability editor (such as Role Scoper) to assign the manage_signup_sheets capability to them.
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThere is already a way to do that. Use the “Ongoing” event type when you create a sheet. Ongoing sheets don’t require dates, so you can put those type of tasks there. Even in other types of sheets that have dates, times are never required.
From the documentation:
Event Types
When adding a new sign-up sheet, there are four Event Types you can choose from:
Single — This is for an event that happens on just one day. You will only be able to enter one date on the tasks screen that will apply to all items/tasks for this event type.
Recurring — This is for an event that recurs on multiple days, but has the exact same items/tasks needed for each occurrence. For example, our school has Popcorn Fridays almost every Friday, and we need two poppers and one cashier each Friday. On the tasks screen for this event type, there will be a multi-date select box to allow you to set all the dates for this event, and then all of the tasks you enter will show up for each one of those dates. NOTE, it is possible to eventually fill up all the space allocated to this dates field, so if you have an event that recurs a very large number of times, you may need to limit how many upcoming dates you list at one time and deselect old dates after they have passed. We came across this problem with our Popcorn Fridays event for our school, but after I figured out the problem, I more than doubled the available size for this field.
Multi-Day — This is an event that happens across more than one day, but that has different tasks/items needed for each day. For example, we use it for our Book Fairs, where we have a “set up” day and a “take down” day where we just need a certain number of bodies to help, and then for the week of the book fair we need a certain number of cashiers and book finders/floaters for each day. For these Multi-Day event types, each task/item has its own single date picker field to specify the date for that item/task.
Onging — This type of sheet doesn’t have any dates associated with it. These are for more general volunteer type opportunities that don’t have specific date/time type requirements, but are needed at various times throughout the year. For example, you could use it to get volunteers for Yearbook photographers, Webmasters, Art Docents, classroom helpers, etc.Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
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