Postponement of hearing

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.

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. The method used to track postponed hearings from the appeal's case details page is update_hearing(hearing_hash) located in app/models/tasks/assign_hearing_disposition_task.rb.
2. The method used to track postponed hearings for AMA Appeals on the daily docket is update_hearing located in app/models/hearings/forms/hearing_update_form.rb.
3. The method used to track postponed hearings for Legacy Appeals on the daily docket is update_caseflow_and_vacols(hearing_hash) located in app/models/legacy_hearing.rb.

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