date based third party reminder
Someone else requested it, but it was archived, so I would like to bring back into consideration third party reminders based on a due date (the application due date, if not a separate third party due date), instead of the date when the third party response was requested. Our application process opens several months before the application due date, and some requests are made right away. Not only will those recommenders forget by the actual due date, but it has historically seriously annoyed our recommenders to receive a reminder before the actual due date. We love having an automatic reminder, but we currently have the system reminder set to the maximum number of days possible. The problem being that the majority of recommenders then don't receive it, and we have to send reminders to the vast majority of the recommenders one by one - especially because there is no way to batch email third parties right now. This results in a staff member spending spending days sending hundreds of individual reminder emails.