Once a week or so I come across a news article regarding a sweepstakes that says the promotion starts at some future date...maybe a week later, or on a specific day a week or so later. Right now I send an email to myself and put something in the subject to remind me to go to that web page or site on a specific date. Too often I forget to go visit the web page on the specific date and miss something I was supposed to do.
It would be great if SL had an option for this.
I could put the web page in the usual SL field, put in a subject and maybe a comment, and then put in a specific date that when wanted to be reminded. I guess it would be like entering a one-time only sweep, but with a future date. When I hit save I would NOT want it to be considered entered, because the date would not have occurred yet.
As I write this it occurs to me that maybe this is already (partially) implemented in SL? If I enter a sweeps into SL, and select its frequency as once, and put a future expiration date...all I would need is to be able to not have it show as entered when I hit save. Will it then show up as available to "enter" on the expiration date?
I'm planning to have Start Date field (and even Custom Shedule feature), but not in next release...
There is a workaround that you can use in curent SL... Say, today you have a single entry sweeps that starts on 4/10/12 and ands on 5/15/12. To set the "reminder" you select "monthly" for frequency, 5/15/12 as Expiration Date and 4/1/12 as Date Entered. So, on 1st of May you'd get this sweeps shown as "due for entry".
It is not the best solution, but it works.