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Set Deadline Alerts on Entrants’ Dashboards

In Nucleus there are Configuration settings that you can use to flag two types of deadlines to entrants:

  • Entry submission deadline for unsubmitted entries
  • Payment deadline for ungenerated invoices

Both these warnings, if activated, will be displayed in red on the Entrants’ dashboard under the Create New Entry Form button. They will state that “An action is required by a certain time on a certain date” and the copy can be customised using the CMS. In addition, they will also appear next to the relevant entries on each award.

How to Set Deadline Alerts for All Awards

Please follow these instructions to set up both Submission and Payment deadlines on the Entrants’ dashboard for all awards in your instance.

  1. Log into the Admin Interface
  2. Go to Actions>Misc
  3. Scroll down to the System Administration section
  4. Select Configuration Values
  5. To set up a submission deadline, look for Entrant dashboard warning days for entries
  6. Click Edit
  7. In the field value, enter the number of days ahead of the cut-off you want this warning to appear on the Entrant’s dashboard. To disable this function, enter 0 in this field
  8. Click Save & Close
  9. To set up a payment deadline, look for Entrant dashboard warning days for invoices
  10. Click Edit
  11. In the field value, enter the number of days ahead of the cut-off you want this warning to appear on the Entrant’s dashboard. To disable this function, enter 0 in this field
  12. Click Save & Close

How to Set Deadline Alerts on a per Award basis only

You may decide to only apply these warnings for specific awards, or have them set for different numbers of days per award. If so, you can adjust these in the individual Awards set-up pages. This can be set up both for Payments and Submission Deadlines.

  1. Log into the Admin Interface
  2. Go to Actions>Awards
  3. Find the relevant Award
  4. Select Actions>Edit
  5. Scroll down to the Options section
  6. In the field Dashboard warning time (days) set the number of days as above
  7. Click Save & Close

Note – If you want to custom the CMS copy for these warnings, you should look for these label values from the MISC settings and edit accordingly.

  • To amend Payment deadline warnings: “Entries for this award must be closed down and paid for”
  • To amend Submission deadline warnings: “Entries for this award must be submitted“

Please note that, if Last submit date and Last pay date are set on the same day, only the Payment Deadline warning will display.