How to create/modify available time slots for VITA volunteers
This is to show steps how to create/modify available time slots for VITA volunteers. Please create one form per city to avoid confusion. Otherwise having two forms with duplicated available time slots might confuse the system.
Once a blank form is brought up, there are, basically, three fields to be filled or modified.
- Title
- Boby
- Location and time slots
Titile
This is to identify your record in the system. Please follow the naming convention so we can easily sort out the data. The naming convention is "<Your Name> VITA-2010 available time slots in <Location>". Please see the following screen shot.
Body
This field can be anything. Please feel free to put in any information that help you to keep the record. Leaving the Body field blank is fine too. Please see the screen shot above.
Location and time slots
This is the most critical data that you have to fill in. The system will keep track of the available time slots according to the dates and the location you selected and recorded. At first, please select the location, either San Jose or Oakland. Once a location is selected, the corresponding time slots will show up. Please keep in mind that the time-slot information is different between San Jose and Oakland. That's why selecting location first is important in order to get to the correct set of time slots.
Once the location is selected, please select the available time slots in the left "Available Options:" window. The <SHIFT> key can be used to select a region of time slots. The <CTRL> key can be used to toggle the selection.
Once the selection of time slots is made, please click "+" in the middle to make the selection recorded. The selected time slots will be moved to the right "Selected Options:".
For the time slots which are not available, you can select the time slot in the right "Selected Options:" window and click on "-" in the middle. This will remove the time slots from your availability. The above process can be repeated and constantly modified in order to accurately report your available time slot.
At the end, please click "SAVE" button to save the data.
