Managing referrals

Checking task progress/statuses

Click ‘View Activities’ to view the activity details which will show the Activity/task ID, and status of the task e.g. whether a volunteer has accepted the task - 0/1 or 1/1. etc. To view the volunteer information, you will need to click on the ’view volunteers’ button.  

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Task statuses explained 

The statuses of your tasks on the search referrals page will differ depending on if it is a scheduled activity/shift or urgent alert. 

Active – live for volunteers to view (shift based) 

Triggered activities – alerts out to volunteers and currently active (urgent/pings).

Rejected – not live, volunteers cannot view the task. 

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The statuses of the tasks from within the ‘View volunteers’ section will vary depending on what stage of the task the volunteer is at:

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For scheduled activities/shifts 

Accepted but dropped later - volunteer has had a change of circumstance and is no longer available, the task becomes available again for other volunteers to accept.

Will complete - accepted by a volunteer.

Complete - marked as complete by a volunteer.

If there is no status showing, this means that unfortunately the task has not been picked up by a volunteer. 

For urgent alerts

Waiting for the responder to accept or reject 

The responder has not seen the alert 

Rejected - by a volunteer.

Accepted but dropped later - by a volunteer.

Accepted - by a volunteer.

Complete - marked as complete by a volunteer.

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Page last reviewed: 11 September 2024