Dear Scheduler users,
I'm considering to make the following non-backwards-compatible change in future versions of Scheduler.
At the moment, Scheduler has a feature called "Volatile slots". When a slot is marked as volatile, and the student booked into the slot cancels their appointment, the slot will be deleted so that it is no longer available to other students. However, this deletion happens only if the slot is within the "Reuse guard time" of the current time (the "reuse guard time" is a setting at the scheduler level).
This feature is somewhat difficult to use and in a sense incomplete (e.g., it means that students can't sign up for new individual appointments shortly before the slot, but they can cancel their appointment, or sign up for a group slot).
I'm planning to remove the "Volatile slots" feature entirely, and replace it with the following: At the level of an individual scheduler, you will be able to configure a "guard time". If a slot is closer than the "guard time" to the current time, then students can no longer change their booking on it in any way (they can't make an appointment, or cancel an existing one). There will be no option to configure this on a per-slot level. See also CONTRIB-4862.
However, before I do that, I'd like to ask whether anyone is using the "volatile slots" feature at the moment, and if so, for which purpose, so that I'm not removing functionality that is actually required widely.
Henning