Postponement of hearing - department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow GitHub Wiki
Summary
The Appellant Notification module will notify an appellant when a scheduled hearing for their appeal has been postponed. There are two different ways in which a hearing is postponed.
- A hearing coordinator chooses to postpone the hearing on the appeal's case details page. The hearing's disposition is set to "postponed" and the hearing tasks for the appeal are also updated to be cancelled.
- A hearing coordinator chooses to postpone the hearing on the daily docket. The hearing's disposition is set to "postponed".
Prepended Methods
There are three different methods used to track postponed hearings:
- The method used to track postponed hearings from the appeal's case details page is
update_hearing(hearing_hash)
located inapp/models/tasks/assign_hearing_disposition_task.rb
. - The method used to track postponed hearings for AMA Appeals on the daily docket is
update_hearing
located inapp/models/hearings/forms/hearing_update_form.rb
. - The method used to track postponed hearings for Legacy Appeals on the daily docket is
update_caseflow_and_vacols(hearing_hash)
located inapp/models/legacy_hearing.rb
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