Email notifications

[vubo]

Issue #70

The new function send_notification(days) sends one day or one week shift-notifications to all volunteers who signed up for the shift. This function should be run on the server once a day.

Example data:

v1 = Volunteer(
            first_name="Valeria",
            last_name="Bogdanova",
            address="MyAddress",
            city="MyCity",
            state="MyState",
            country="MyCountry",
            phone_number="2374983247",
            email="vubogdanova@gmail.com",
            user=u1
            )

        v1.save()

        e1 = Event(
                name="GHC 2015",
                start_date="2015-07-22",
                end_date="2015-08-23"
                )

        e1.save()

        j1 = Job(
            name="Volunteer Coordinator",
            start_date="2015-07-22",
            end_date="2015-08-23",
            description="Volunteer Coordinator",
            event=e1
            )

        j1.save()

        s1 = Shift(
            date=date.today() + timedelta(1), #tomorrow date
            start_time="12:00",
            end_time="6:00",
            max_volunteers=4,
            address="Test address",
            city="Atlanta",
            state="Georgia",
            country="USA",
            venue="Near the south entrance",
            job=j1
            )

Notification email example for the data:

Dear Valeria,
thank you for registering for the Volunteer Coordinator job at the GHC 2015 event on 2015-07-22.
The shift you signed up starts tomorrow.

Shift Start Time: 12:00:00
Shift End Time: 06:00:00

Address: Test address
Venue: Near the south entrance
City: Atlanta
State: Georgia
Country: USA

Please correct me if needed.

I also wrote a unit test for this function.

[tapaswenipathak]

@vubo Awesome. 👍

Change the subject to something like
The Systers - VMS notification Volunteer Job Reminder Mail

Change the message body to something like

Dear Valeria,

This is your reminder that you have registered for the Volunteer Coordinator job at the GHC 2015 event on 2015-07-22.
The shift you signed up starts tomorrow.

Shift Start Time: 12:00:00
Shift End Time: 06:00:00

Address: Test address
Venue: Near the south entrance
City: Atlanta
State: Georgia
Country: USA

Thank you for registering!

One more thing is it in the requirements that the this should be run on the server once a day and not at the time when someone registers for the job?

[vubo]

@tapasweni-pathak thank you very much, I will correct it!

One more thing is it in the requirements that the this should be run on the server once a day and not at the time when someone registers for the job?

When the shift is on 22.07.2015 and someone registers for this shift on 22.06.2015, we have to schedule a notification sending on the 15.07.2015 (one week) or on the 21.07.2015 (one day). Do I understand correctly? Why does this version is better?

[tapaswenipathak]

Okay. You told me something more. This is great. 👍

But I was asking that are we sending the notification to her immediately at the time when she registers herself for some shift?

[vubo]

Do you mean a confirmation email for registration to a shift? No, not yet. But it's a good idea!

[tapaswenipathak]

Yes. Right catch. 👍

But then this is a reminder, no? We are reminding her that you have registered for so and so shift.

[vubo]

Yes, here is the issue: #70
We need to remind about a shift all volunteers who signed up.

[tapaswenipathak]

Okay. Then I have changed the message body and subject a bit.

@vubo One more thing, then change the function name to send_reminder instead of send_notification. But if you are gonna use the same for sending confirmation and hence generalizing the function, then this name is fine.

[vubo]

Upgrade:

• Now a volunteer can determine in the profile settings, how many days before a shift she wants to receive a reminder email:
  
• Use Validators:
  
• New message text:

The Systers - VMS Volunteer Shift Reminder Mail

Dear Valeria,

This is your reminder that you have registered for the Volunteer Coordinator job at the GHC 2015 event on 2015-07-22.
The shift you signed up starts tomorrow.

Shift Start Time: 12:00:00
Shift End Time: 06:00:00

Address: Test address
Venue: Near the south entrance
City: Atlanta
State: Georgia
Country: USA

Thank you for registering!

• New unit test with 2 volunteers vubo/vms@e3957a5#diff-8658bfcdf54632eed02622e7eae6473bR35
• Automatically fill reminder_days field at the registration vubo/vms@e3957a5#diff-0395bb8311ccaa7272ca0a80d3fa0140R117
• New function name: test_send_reminder

[tapaswenipathak]

Awesome. 👍

Can you rebase?

[vubo]

@tapasweni-pathak ready 👍

[tapaswenipathak]

@vubo Forgot to tell you before, can you change the commit message also.

r/email notifications/Volunteer Shift Reminder Emails

[vubo]

@tapasweni-pathak thank you, I did it.