Time poll

It would be nice if I could paste in a bunch of dates into the time poll 'enter a time' field, and have them automatically separated out into individual options.

Presently if I paste in one date, like '20 June', it converts it to 20 June 2001.

I'm on a board that has a quarterly meeting rhythm, and so two days feels like too short.

Thanks for letting me make longer time polls :)

Next little thing. I started a time poll in a group. I go to Share (rather than announce, because not everyone is in the group yet), and I can't understand why I can see a disabled option to move/set the groups of this poll.

I just went to promote Loomio time poll to an admin person who doesn't already use Loomio — and realised that unlike Doodle, a new person does have to create an account/go check their email before they can create a poll. That feels like a barrier.

I made a 'share link' time poll today. Once I've emailed the link around, and gone back to the Loomio app, I kinda want to press a DONE button. Clicking the X at top right of the modal feels a lot like cancelling the poll…

Hey now there is one! Thanks :)

Someone in my group started a time poll, with the 'Voters may add options' option on, but I can't see where I would add options.

This is a feature request specific to Time Polls, but really is probably relevant to all decision types.

As a facilitator/wrangler/convener, my biggest concern is that everyone has the right information. Preferably in a tidy package with just what they need, when they need it, no more or less.

So I just ran a stand-alone time poll. I put in 3 email addresses, separated by commas. I saw a status message saying something like "invitations sent", so I kinda trust that they went out, but I would love to be able to see a log of the actual messages sent to the actual people. Did Loomio understand the commas as separators, or did it send to one long invalid address? What info is included anyway? How does it look to my participants?

Thankfully, Loomio is smart and works good! The emails went out, everyone participated, we found a time that works. Next job: I want to make sure everyone has a calendar invitation (the only way I remember to attend a meeting is if it is in my calendar).

I go over to Google Calendar to start writing the invitation, then I think, hey doesn't Loomio do some calendar thingy now? I returned to the poll, looking for something like a "book this time" or "send meeting invitations" or "confirm meeting time" button. Oh... I need to press "Close" -- that technically makes sense because the poll is currently "open", but as a user I don't care about that, I just want to confirm the meeting time. (I think "everyone has participated" is far more salient than "your predicted decision-making time has elapsed".)

After closing the poll, I see a new button "Share outcome". Again... it makes sense when I think about it, but what I really want is to "Send meeting invitations" or "Announce meeting time" or something.

So I hit "Share outcome" and see this lovely form with "attach a calendar invitation" and nice extras like meeting agenda and location. Cool! And it has automatically picked the earliest time all the participants are available. This is pretty nice!

So I send out the confirmation to everyone... but I don't get a calendar invitation myself, so I have to go and create an event in gCal anyway. Again, my peace of mind would be significantly improved if I could see a log of all the notifications that have been delivered (especially if I knew which ones had been seen).

(As you can see, my head is in detail-polishing mode. Appreciate y'all @robertguthrie @gdpelican might be frying far bigger fish at the moment -- just wanted to write the story while the experience was fresh.)

Yea, totally agree seeing a log of notifications would be great, and getting a fully fledged calendar event where you can see everyone in it would be good too.

Thanks for the write up.

can we have days of week pls?

and not sure if there is a thread for this - have mentioned once before but
- data for admins on users login frequency (at least - last log in) would be extra useful for gauging participation (even silent) - listing members by last login date would suffice (maybe just grouped by: in last week, last month, 6 months ago)

Ben, did you know that last log in is available on people's profile pages? (Accessible by clicking profile photos)

yes :-)

i wanted to be able to list members and sort by this - not find for individuals (one at a time)

Ben, this won't sort or group by last seen date (didn't manage to get there), but it would display this data in the member list along with location...

sounds good - hopefully this can be taken further... :-)

Event planning (doodle style) poll

[I had posted it in the wrong thread before]
I found two problems:
1. After voting you are not allowed to add new options anymore, neither changing your vote
2. when you have many options (>6), if you want to add new options I can't scroll down the window and so I can't reach the button to do that

Other features I think could be useful:
1. New answer "if necessary". Now you can answer (="i'll be present") or leave it empty (="I won't"), but could be useful also an option that let you say that you don't prefer that schedule but you can try to be present if majority choose it.
2. Personalize options: could be useful to add the place of that date (not every day the same place is available for meeting), to add the day name (monday, tuesday etc); furthermore, it would convert it in a generic approval voting, that is not bad.
And if you add also the "if necessary" answer actually you are getting a basic score voting!

I don't understand why Time Poll outcomes have a required statement at the top. Seems like the other fields provided give plenty of detail for most meetings: time, venue, agenda.