Do It/Local Opportunities

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Ben Fisher
Do It/Local Opportunities

Hi,

An issue was recently raisd by one of the VC Staff, is it possible to change an Opportunity from Local - Do It or Do It to Local?

For example we may in future get a request to make some Opportunities Local (that were on Do It previously) Vise Versa, Rather than having to delete and rewrite the Opportunity.

Is this possible or can it be made? What does everyone else think?

Thanks

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Lorna

I think I have seen somewhere else on the forum that this is not possible.

Ben Fisher

Oh ok thanks it would be useful to have the option

vcsheather
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We would welcome this if possible. We are working with some nationals who want us to take our data down from Do-It so that they can have a single presence online, but obviously we want to retain the existing record so that we can continue to recruit locally.

janet@action-ce...
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We are getting an increasing number of organisations requesting this too - it would be helpful to be able to 'make local' without having to input the opportunity again. 

jodyr
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Hi. This would be a very useful feature as well especially with specific volunteerin g recruitment drives.

rtomalin
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As these records are completely different and impact with the Do-it API I suspect that this would be non-trivial.

However it seems like something that one would expect the system to do.

APatterson RB

We would really welcome this feature; a proportion of our opportunties are hand-written and mailed to us, so re-entering the information when an organisation wants to push to do-it takes up a lot of time. 

rtomalin
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I do agree that this suggestion is valid.  However, the particular issue above will be helped by the new feature in the pipeline that will allow a VC to send a link to an Org that will allow them to enter an Opp directly into VBC.  A bit like the volunteers Request Info.

A question on this - will the option "push to do-it" be available?  If so, and the org gets it wrong, that could be a problem if they get it wrong!!

VCSSteph
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This feature would be extremely useful. We have nationals that, despite having one main presence on there, see the value of having a countywide record in order to recruit effectively. As we had already registered them as a 'local' org with 'local' opps, I have had to spend an awful lot of time putting them on again as Do-it org and opps (not easy when there are the other known issues occurring currently!!) - a click of a button that could push/unpush an organisation/opportunity to Do-it would be really, really time/sanity saving!

jodyr
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Hi. I've tried using the new feature of pushing a Local opportunity to Do-It today but because the local opportunity is linked to a local organisation the opportunity cannot be pushed to Do-It making the feature obsolete! All our local opportunities are linked to a local organisation. Will you be adding the feature of pushing a local organisation to Do-It as well???