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2 years later now... and 4 years since this thread started....ANY movement on this?? We are going to need to replace our legacy closings system and would love to be able to migrate to a TownNews app.
It's such a simple concept. Reiterating key points from my post from 3 years ago above.
Every entity becomes a business asset in Marketplace.
Each entity has a user connected to it (or multiples of either).
On their dashboard, they click a link to a closings dashboard.
From there, on any entity where they are listed as the user, they have the option of managing closings.
All time and date driven. Group by category. ( connect to Event Calendar?? )
Build blocks to display the closings or lates or cancels or whatever.
Allow logged-in public users the ability to 'tag' a business for notifications and alerts.
Simple mobile interface for quickly placing a closing.
Allow businesses to add a coupon (if at level >=X priority) to a closing. i.e. "School out? Get 20% off at X store"
Store all closings for quick reactivation or reuse.
See? Simple! :)
Couldn't the businesses in the BD have the ability to add their own closings? And then build a block to query those closings and display them on a page? On the backend, a 'business' could be designated with 'priority' levels or something that groups them by how their info should be displayed.
By doing this, we could then 'force' the businesses/schools/govs/etc to either claim and verify their connections to an entity or add them as a new business entity.
Closing/Late start and end time, a status flag, a text field for custom notes or codes and a simple 'turn it off or on' flag.
Just some thoughts. We are going live on TN shortly but since there is no Closings module, we will have to come up with an alternative plan with our current system.
Just joined this forum community. Looking forward to sucking up all this knowledge!
Allen
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Hi Maureen,
We had that on our legacy site before the switch to TN. Simple logic to check if there were or were not closings for the day. If there were, button showed. If not, no button. Should be simple for that be done in TN, also.
We did (and still do) keep a link on our nav bar so that folks could easily find their way to post a closing whenever the need arose. Hoping this gains some traction. We had the majority of the work done but the main guy who was putting it together was RIF'd, so it came to a grinding halt.