**Delaying Release of Time Slots
- Educonnex Support
This page is about how to delay the release of time slots (withhold them) so that they are not available to accept bookings when parents first log into PTO.
These settings would generally only be used when you want Parents to access the system, but not make any bookings. It could be used if you wanted Parents to see how many interviews they will need to have, or to allow them to test their logins before bookings are open.
This would usually be used in conjunction with Student Filters where you want to open access but give priority bookings to a specific group (ie. overseas parents, staff parents, etc)
Overall, the access to log in to PTO is defined on the PTO Dashboard page via the Parent Access control.
Go to: Data > View and Edit Time Slots
To set release dates for certain days:
Click on “Set Release By Time Slots Date”.
2. Select the date related to the block of time slots you wish to apply a delayed release to.
Do this by selecting the “Set release time” option corresponding to the date of your time slots.
3. Enter the release date and time you wish to put in place for that days' time slots.
Select “Apply release time”
Once you have applied the desired settings the details will be displayed in the Release Date + Time column.
Alternatively
If the time slots you wish to apply a delayed release to are on a day with other time slots (i.e., you don’t want to delay the release of all the timeslots on a given day) you should consider this alternate method of delaying the release of timeslots.
Go to: Data > View and Edit Time Slots
Select the timeslot/s you wish to apply a delayed release to.
Above the time slot table enter the details for the delayed release to apply to the selected timeslot/s.
Select the Save icon.
Once you have applied the desired settings the details will be displayed in the Release Date + Time column.
