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Allow Participants to be Bulk Assigned Volunteer Hours GH3364
Our requirement for the Stewardship Credit badge is 8 hours of stewardship-related work which can be obtained many ways. We have many stewardship activities, but some of them only require 2-4 hours of work. To make this easier to track, we'd like to be able to bulk assign volunteer hours to participants in these cases
4 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThis is complete. Look for the "Check this box to assign volunteer hours to participants too" checkbox when closing an activity.
We're working on how to integrate this this the Stewardship badge soon (seehttps://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/41870725-assign-the-stewardship-credit-badge-based-on-stewa).
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Route/Place Missing Photo Finder
Develop a way to find Routes & Places that are missing a photo so that anyone may find a route/place where we need a photo to make our website more content rich.
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Display "Leader's Permission Required" and Registration Opening Date on Field Trip Pages
It would be nice if it showed up the page I look at and have the opening date like the climbs I post.
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Lead Activity Again via "Single Activity Cloning" GH3234
To make it easier for leaders to schedule an activity that they've already led, add what is sort of a copy-and-paste/single clone feature and display on the Lead Activity Again button in the "Manage Activity" portlet.
This new "single clone" feature would:
- Create a copy of the activity
- Place it in the same folder as the activity being copied
- Increment it's URL as if it were made by staring with the route/place
- Run all of error and conflict checks
- Display the newly added/copied activity's edit form with any errors2 votes -
Add Kilometres to the "Length Units" on the posting activity page.
We should have this option- we can post the km on the Pace. It makes absolutely no sense that we can't post the distance of the pace they are moving at with the same measurement
Maybe we should get onto the '70s and make this an option?1 voteDeclined · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThanks for sharing your idea. Unfortunately, we need to decline this. As the overwhelming majority of our courses take place in the United States, where the standard unit of measurement is the imperial system, we’ve designed the website to work within this system. We do not have capacity to expand to kilometres at this time.
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Add our COVID Code of Conduct to website GH 3445/3446/3447/3450/3455
Add text acknowledging our COVID Code of Conduct, including a link to the reference page(s), to the event/activity creation page and the registration pop-up. Also add a note about the Code of Conduct to the top of all event and activity listings.
Add donation requests to free activities and events.
Better emphasize donation request in checkout process.
Add "Include credit card fees" for donations.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Jun/Jul 2020.
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Improve MORE+ button
From feedback, it appears that many people fail to notice the "more+" button in activities, especially on cellphones. Because they don't see it, they don't read all the important info in leader's notes. The More+ button should be more prominent...possibly a brighter, solid color button? Better yet, how about all the info about the trip expanded so it's never missed?
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Jun 2022. As part of adding features for our events system, we moved the MORE+ button to the left, so it's easier to see.
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In addition to Leave no Trace consider As an Outdoor Ambassador, removing traces left by others
Not unusual to see some trash on the trail or campsite. Be a good steward, pick it up and pack it out. Consider always carrying a trash bag in your pack for this. It often only takes a few seconds to pick it up. Help keep the outdoors pristine! :)
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThanks for sharing your idea. We agree that people should be good stewards of our natural places. In addition to sharing the principles of Leave No Trace as part of our Outdoor Ambassador program, we also regularly share responsible recreation tips with our community on our website, in our emails, and on social media. Most of our courses teach the “campsite rule”, to leave a place better than you found it, and many of our course students are required to complete eight hours of stewardship credit to graduate. For our latest resource, visit our blog from September 25, 2020, highlighting Leave No Trace tips for new hikers: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/leave-no-trace-tips-for-new-hikers.
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Favorites: Flag interest on an activity
I would like to see a feature in the website to let me flag to myself that I am interested in signing up for an activity, that I can return to with a filter and decide whether to sign up or let it slip. Personally, I would not care if my interest flags were visible to others.
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On daily alert, display the day of the week GH3076/3077
The new Daily alert feature is nice, but it would be more helpful if it displayed the day of the week in the message. Most people are available only on certain days.
1 voteCompleted Jul 2019.
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Email Reminder for Activities, Courses and Events About to Open for Registration SD509
As a site user, allow me to choose to get an email the day before an activity, course or event opens so that I get a reminder to register for an activity or course for which I plan to register.
It would be ideal to add a checkbox along with "Send me an email reminder the day before this opens for registration." to the registration portlet where the the opening date is displayed. We're currently thinking a new role on the roster may be the best way to accomplish this.
1 votePlease see the IT Planning & Prioritization sheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x1_tMuGpZZC4-xxyiDTzALvnbSPn2SJz3FveQQuyfmY/edit?usp=sharing, for where this project is ranked among other projects.
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Allow leaders to update a student's participation notes after a field trip is closed
Leaders add participation notes to a student's profile if they fail to pass a critical skill and need reevaluation before they can register for a climb. We need to be able to update the participation note to include information when they do pass the skill, but this means we can't close the activity until all students have passed, unless we contact the program center to reopen. It would be nice if we could update participation notes.
1 voteDeclined · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedWe close activities so that we know that the records are up-to-date and to prevent accidentally editing an activity that is complete. An activity that was closed can be re-opened by staff or a committee admin if corrections are needed.
If a student fails to meet one or more standards at a field trip and needs to attend a make-up session after practicing and improving, their successful completion should be recorded on the make-up session activity. This is so that we can see a student’s progress over time.
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Show past activities on a route
When looking at a route, you can see future activities as well as trip reports. I'd like to see a list of past activities, along with their completion status and leader name (whether they posted a trip report or not).
This would make it easier to contact past trip leaders to ask them about conditions, etc. as well as to get a sense of when people typically use the route.Thanks!
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Alerts & Notifications "Leave Blank for All Branches" GH3015
For the "Branches" field change it so that leaving it blank is the same as having selected all of the branches in the list.
Change the help text for Branches to: With these branches... (leave blank to choose all branches)
Change the help text for Activities to: Of these types... (choose at least one to get notifications)
0 votesCompleted Jul 2019.
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When trips are co-led by two leaders who report to different branches and committees please can both sponsor and share credit? GH3075
When trips are co-led by two leaders who report to different branches and committees please can both sponsor and share credit?
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It would help if when the leader enters the title that was previously a designated trail if it clearly shows this trail is still included un
It would help if when the leader enters a Routes and Places title that was previously a designated trail in planning a future trip if it clearly shows this trail is still included under a different route/place name
1 voteWe already have this capability. Thee are two places where we can indicate alternate titles, the Summary and the Title tab. Examples of each of these to this suggestion form Mount Olympus/Blue Glacier, https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/routes-places/mount-olympus-blue-glacier.
Also, the text in the Summary field and the titles in the Titles tab are indexed and used to rank results high in search results, so it should be easy to find Routes & Places by any of its alternate titles or words from the Summary.
If there are specific Routes & Places where we need to improve the Summary to indicate all of the options and variations for a route, or we need to add titles to the alternate titles list, please use the Route/Place Updates, Images & Resources Form, https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/route-place-updates-images-resources.
If you find an activity you led in the past on your My Activities page, you can find the route/place in that…
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Add "Maximum Route/Place Capacity" field for route/places GH2937
Add a field for routes/places that shows the maximum total capacity (over all bookings) for each route/place.
4 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Jun 2019.
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Include all fields in the CSV download after an activity closes GH2929
As an admin or a leader, I would like to see all fields in the CSV download so that I can better manage courses and activities. Also reorder the fields so that like information is grouped.
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Include a link to Post a Trip Report in Your Trip Is Closed notice
More trip reports might be written if a reminder/invitation to write link were tucked into the Your Trip Has Been Closed email.
1 voteWe already do. See the comments for the text of the email we send.
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Default "Summary" section for educational activities GH2923
Use the summary section that has been entered into the activity template for clinics, seminars, lectures, and field trips as the default once you have selected the appropriate template. Right now, summary sections are written up in the template, but they don't automatically populate in the activity listing.
3 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Mar 2022.
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