I'm looking to use CiviCRM to - in part - manage our team of around 50 volunteer translators. Once a volunteer has agreed to take on a translation, staff will set an activity, so that we can keep a record of how many translations people have done. I've set that up, with a number of custom fields for the volunteer contact, and for the activity (a URL of the original text, the date we should receive the translation, etc).
What I would like to be able to do but can't work out out the functionality of, is - once an activity has been assigned - for something in the volunteers contact sheet to display that they are currently translating (I can do this manually, but busy people probably won't necessarily always do two steps, so we could end up with activities being assigned but the translator still appearing "available"). This way when a staff person comes to search for a translator (by language to/from, and their availability) they only get shown volunteers who aren't currently completing activities.
Thanks!