We're now able to offer a more personalized experience for the Arabic and Hebrew locales for the scheduling link.
It is available for recipients when an invite is sent over and will automatically detect their locale when they visit the page.
You can now create and add tags to help you track and manage your scheduling requests. This can help you identify the type of meetings or projects assigned to your clients.
For example, you may want to keep track of all clients who are part of a training program, to schedule follow-up feedback sessions or simply segment your clients.
This will enable you to filter by 'Tags' in the Requests Table.
Once your requests are filtered, you can export the data to a CSV file. You can include this in your reports and present it to your clients or team, for further discussion and review.
To find out more about the tags, please read our documentation here.
To date, Cronofy has supported allowing your users to authorize general purpose video conferencing providers like Zoom and GoTo for use with your application. Increasingly companies are using conferencing tools focused on specific use cases, live video interviews being a popular one.
To enable these conferencing tools for our API customers, we've introduced Conferencing Categories to allow you to control which types of providers are shown to your users.
You'll find this in the Features section for your Application in the developer dashboard.
When Recruiting is enabled your users will see additional providers like Indeed.
These work in exactly the same way as other conferencing providers so you can just specify the appropriate profile_id when creating an event to have that service be used. More in the conferencing services docs.
Indeed Interview is the first provider we're supporting in the Recruiting category with more to come. If there is a provider that you users are keen to see supported do let us know.
When using Availability Queries, you may now choose to have events with tentative attendance (i.e. where the user has responded to an event as "maybe attending") considered as free periods.
This may be useful when scheduling events that have higher importance than thoes where members are only considering to attend.
You can enable this behaviour by adding "ignore_tentative": true for each member within the availability query:
{
"participants": [
{
"members": [
{
"sub": "acc_567236000909002",
"ignore_tentative": true
}
],
"required": "all"
}
],
...other Availability Query fields
}
More details can be found in the availability query documentation and also within the sequenced availability query documentation.
Support for Arabic (ar), Hebrew (he) and RTL layout support for both these locales has been added to all our UI Elements from v1.52.0.
The full list of locales we support can be found in the UI Elements docs page
You can now upload file attachments when creating a Scheduling Request. These will be added to the calendar event once a time is chosen.
When scheduling on behalf of someone, you are now able to select from any of that user’s conferencing options.
Up to this point, only two options were available, 'none' and 'default'.
This provides more flexibility when managing meetings for the people in your organization.
You can now upload files and then attach them to events in the Create or Update Event and Real-Time Scheduling APIs.
This opens up a lot of new use cases, such as including a job description PDF on the interview event or attaching a customer's development plan to their coaching session event.
You can learn about how to enable Attachments and start using the upload API in our documentation.
We've released support for group scheduling for our Scheduler extensions for Chrome, Gmail, Firefox, Zendesk and Outlook - making it easier to schedule your meetings faster.
Group Scheduling Rules are configurable within your Organizational Unit on the Scheduler dashboard, and previously it was only possible to create requests using them from the dashboard itself.
Now, your Group Scheduling Rules are available from the Scheduler app everywhere, when selecting Schedule for: A group:
Your Organizational Unit's Group Scheduling Rules are available from the following drop-down:
This will give you a straightforward form with your event defaults pre-filled, and once confirming the details of the event you can create your Request as normal.
When using Availability Queries, you may now choose to only consider managed events (those created by your application) when evaluating busy times for a member of the query.
This is useful if you wish to avoid double booking with other events you've created, whilst ignoring events that have originated elsewhere.
Opt-in to this new mode by passing "only_managed_events": true for the member:
{
"participants": [
{
"members": [
{
"sub": "acc_567236000909002",
"only_managed_events": true
}
],
"required": "all"
}
],
...other Availability Query fields
}
See our documentation on the new field here.