ATTEND

New pre-filtered event listing page options

We’ve made an update to give you even more flexibility over your pre-filtered Custom URLs for event listing page.   

What’s new:  

• You can now set rolling time periods for your event listings. For example, ‘show everything from today, for the next 30 days’, or ‘show everything that is happening over the next 8 weeks'.  

• You can also now set exclusions in your URLs. e.g., ‘show all events except for craft events’, or ‘show all events except for those at (this) location. Exclusions can be mixed and matched too, e.g. ‘show me all events except those at (this) location for (this) age group'.  

Remember, exclusions work like filters, so an event with multiple tags will still show if you opt to exclude one but not all those tags. For example, if you were to exclude ‘adult’ events in your URL, they would still appear if the event was also tagged with ‘teens’.  Excludable categories are: Location, Age Group, and Event Type.  

 More information on available options and how to configure your custom URLs can be found on Communico College.

CONNECT

Improved self-serve messaging for Sierra users 

The Sierra API has a ‘section’ field available. Some partners use this feature to denote where in a library a book is located.  We’ve made an update to the app to display this information, where available. The hope is that your customers will be able to better locate their items, allowing them to better self-serve.   

 The information will show as below (where none exists, the field ‘Section’ is hidden):   

More control over your self-checkout success message  

 The messaging on your self-checkout confirmations screen is now configurable. The current default message is:

“Thank you for using the patron self-check service, enjoy your items and see you soon”   

 If you would like something different, please reach out to our Support Team who will make the change for you.   

SCHEDULE

Cell number and e-mail are now optional  

We’ve given you control over whether cell number and/or email address are required when making an appointment via Schedule. The settings for these fields are independent of one another, allowing you the ability to decide if one, both, or none of these fields are required.  

 This configuration option is available on the group level so it is customizable across your different appointment types.   Each group is defaulted to requiring email and cell number. To change this, toggle the required fields to off and save.    

Status field added to appointments API  

The Schedule API now returns two possible values for status :

• Approved
• Cancelled

To get started, check out our documentation here. Should you need an API key, please reach out to the Support Team for assistance. 

REPORTS

New data points for Zoom Webinar attendance 

You can now distinguish between ‘Zoom webinars’ and ‘Zoom meetings’ in Attend reports, making reporting fields such as ‘maximum webinar attendees’, easier.    

 To start a report that incorporates webinar data, edit an existing report or start a new one.   You will find the webinar fields available with the pre-existing Zoom fields, under the events report type.