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1. 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.

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   Completed Jul 2019.

2. 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)

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   Completed Jul 2019.

3. 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

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   We 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 activity. If that route/place is retired, there is a note at the top of the route description with a link to the route/place to use.

   If we have a good Summary and all the titles we need in the Titles tab, but a route is not high in the search results, or you’re having trouble finding the route/place you need, please send an email to our Member Services Team.

   If you’d like to learn more about our Routes & Places, please visit our How to Request New or Updated Routes & Places, https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteer/schedule-manage/activities/how-to-request-new-or-updated-routes-places.

   We 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… more

4. 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.

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5. 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.

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   We already do. See the comments for the text of the email we send.

6. 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.

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   Completed Mar 2022.

7. Create a Single-Pitch Sport Climb Leader badge ~WebsiteContent

   A pathway to leadership for students who participate in the Leading Bolted Routes or Sport Climbing courses would serve to create a pipeline of knowledgable, interested instructors for future courses, and help to ensure that Mountaineers' high standards are maintained during instruction in future classes and on official sport climbing trips.

   This badge would be distinct from any of the other existing climb leader badges, but would require a similar pathway-- leadership, WFA/MOFA, resume, etc.

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   Thanks for your suggestion. Last fall, we completed the modularization and reorganization of our climbing leadership structure. This new structure achieves a number of important outcomes: (1) Offers transparency to the students and equalizes the experience for all aspiring leaders. (2) Provides a clear leadership pathway where aspiring leaders can see a road map to how they can become a leader in whatever climbing pursuit they are interested in leading. (3) Provides early leadership opportunities, giving our members a chance to feel valued and develop their leadership skills early on, while they are also developing their technical skills. We believe this will lead to more leaders, and early identification of individuals who may have been overlooked for leadership opportunities in the past, thereby reducing the burden on our top leaders to run crag outings. We believe this will increase our trip offerings overall. You can learn more about the new structure at https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteer/leader-resources/climbing-leadership-structure.

   Thanks for your suggestion. Last fall, we completed the modularization and reorganization of our climbing leadership structure. This new structure achieves a number of important outcomes: (1) Offers transparency to the students and equalizes the experience for all aspiring leaders. (2) Provides a clear leadership pathway where aspiring leaders can see a road map to how they can become a leader in whatever climbing pursuit they are interested in leading. (3) Provides early leadership opportunities, giving our members a chance to feel valued and develop their leadership skills early on, while they are also developing their technical skills. We believe this will lead to more leaders, and early identification of individuals who may have been overlooked for leadership opportunities in the past, thereby reducing the burden on our top leaders to run crag outings. We believe this will increase our trip offerings overall. You can learn more about the new… more

8. Fix Required Input Needed error on roster GHtbd

   When you are trying to add someone to the roster it often spits back a "Required Input Needed" error even when you have entered someone's name or email correctly. Fortunately you can just hit Save and override error message but its confusing for new leaders.

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   As best I can tell this was fixed with the Plone 5 update that was live on May 5, 2020. Please let us know if it’s still an issue.

9. STOP Allowing Registration to Occur Before Registration Begins

   Field Trips are full before registration date. Wtf? This makes registration dates pointless!!! As a new Scrambling student I’m patiently waiting for field registration to begin only to realize they are full prior to registration. Members are fine getting leader’s permission but should have to wait till the registration is open to register not before.

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   We provide leader training in our new leader orientation and leadership development programs, in our online resources, and in our Leader Lines email newsletter to address this issue.

10. Remove "Getting Started Series" from the Activity Leader Rating GH2781

    It's confusing to see "Getting Started Series" in the activity search results as an option when we no longer have a formal "Getting Started Series" program.

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    Complete Jun 2022. We removed the "For Beginners (Getting Started Series)" item from the Leader Rating List. Future activities with this rating were changed to "Casual."

11. Please create two "outdoor leadership" activity types ~Salesforce

    In order to track what the mountaineers does in terms of outdoor leadership, we would like two activity types:

    Leader Development - Leadership Skills
    Leader Development - Technical Skills

    Below is the email thread for background:
    Here’s a really quick stab at some language, for nothing else than to give us something to edit:

    Leadership Skills
    - May or may not be activity-specific.
    - May or may not have a focus on outdoor leadership.

    - Emphasis on facilitation, instruction, and/or group leadership.

    Technical Skills
    - Activity-specific.
    - Skill development in activity that this person leads or aspires to lead. (Not quite sure how to word this, but trying to differentiate something like Canmore from the Basic Climbing Course.)
    - May have an emphasis on incident management or activity-specific rescue techniques.

    From: Becca Polglase
    Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:56 PM
    To: Tess Wendel tessw@mountaineers.org; Steve Smith steves@mountaineers.org; Sara Ramsay sarar@mountaineers.org
    Subject: "outdoor leadership" activity type

    Hi folks,

    As we were talking about tracking participation in Outdoor Leadership activities, we decided we would like two categories:
    Leader Development – Leadership Skills
    Leader Development – Technical Skills

    Two questions, probably both for Tess:
    1. I was trying to utilize our current “Outdoor Leadership” type to edit and categorize courses and activities appropriately from 2017 so I could run a report for Elizabeth… For courses, it happens at the course template level and it works great. I created a report: https://na88.salesforce.com/00O1Y0000074Meh that’s saved in the Volunteers folder. We’ll likely have to do an annual data clean-up to make sure we aren’t missing any that aren’t tagged correctly, but I did that for 2017. For Activities, at the template level there is only a single-select. At the Activity level, you can multiselect, however there is help language discouraging this (and the help language is good I think). Is there a reason we can’t get a multi-select activity type at the template level? That would lead to much less year-end data clean-up.
    2. What is the process by which we change the existing “outdoor leadership” course type to “leader development – leadership skills” and add a “leader development – technical skills”?

    Steve/Sara – we should have some definitions.
    Eg –
    Canmore Ice Climbing is clearly LD – Technical Skills
    Mick Pearson – LD – Technical Skills and LD – Leadership Skills
    Leadership Conference – LD – Leadership Skills
    Everett Instructors Clinic – LD – Leadership Skills and LD – Technical Skills
    WRMC – LD – Leadership Skills? Or do we track this with some other method because it is not a mounties only thing?
    ACA Trainings – LD – Leadership Skills and LD – Technical Skills? Or do we track this with some other method?

    In some cases, we are charging people to participate and in others we are paying for them to participate. Do we care?

    For now we can at least get the two categories going and the definitions written.

    In order to track what the mountaineers does in terms of outdoor leadership, we would like two activity types:

    Leader Development - Leadership Skills
    Leader Development - Technical Skills

    Below is the email thread for background:
    Here’s a really quick stab at some language, for nothing else than to give us something to edit:

    Leadership Skills
    - May or may not be activity-specific.
    - May or may not have a focus on outdoor leadership.

    - Emphasis on facilitation, instruction, and/or group leadership.

    Technical Skills
    - Activity-specific.
    - Skill development in activity that this person leads or aspires to lead. (Not… more

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    Completed Feb 2019

12. Need a way to mark courses/events/activities as led by staff vs. volunteers GH2707

    Right now its getting difficult to report volunteer contributions for recognition and annual reporting versus staff contributions.

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    A long time coming, but this is finally complete. The Activity, Course, and Event edit forms now all have a “Led by Staff” checkbox that is synced to Salesforce. Sara and decided that we do not need the history, and getting it accurately seemed nearly impossible, given that most of us have led as both staff and a volunteer.

13. Youth Registration Checkbox for Activities GH2750

    For activities, change the checkbox text shown to youth under 18 to: "I have verified that a Qualified Youth Leader will be present for this activity. The youth registrant meets the age and skill requirements and has permission to participate in this activity. <a href="/activities/request-leaders-permission?surveyed-object-uid={PloneUID}">Request Leader's Permission</a>"

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    Completed May 2019.

    See http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/41632696-registration-portlet-checkbox-update-for-adult-cou for the similar idea for courses. Vote for or subscribe to it to get updates.

14. Improve Activity Edit Form (sea kayak fields plus pace)

    We re-ordered fields to make more sense when listing the activity. Improved and added help text to some of the fields.

    We added three fields for kayakers, maximum wind, maximum waves and maximum current. We also added a free form field for pace of the activity.

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15. Change map when destination is changed GH2018

    When a trip leader changes the destination [route/place] for an existing trip [activity], the map coordinates [GPS Start and End points] don't change. They should probably change to the new destination [route/place].

    [I think we also missed high point when adding and editing an activity. We should add that too when we do this.]

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    Mar/Apr 2018

16. Reclassify Snowshoe Routes and Trips Using New S/T Rating System ~WebsiteContent

    This posting is the result of 1) a few years of cross-branch discussions among the Snowshoe Programs of the various branches, and 2) email discussions with the Program Center about how to go about changing the rating system used to classify Snowshoe trips. The feedback we received from the Program Center was that the correct way to document our request for changing the website was to post the changed to feedback.mountaineers.org.

    The Snowshoe Programs of the various branches would like to change the way that Snowshoe Routes and Trips are rated so that each route/trip has a separate Strenuous and Technical rating - this is of course the same technique used by scrambles and climbs. A final version of the new rating scheme was presented at the Snowshoe Summit held on October 9 and approved unanimously by all branches. The proposal document includes the rationale for the change, and can be viewed here:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/133v_0TZhir56_kGjwl3BT_XNoYYAQgQFl6q2sAz1M6M/edit?usp=sharing

    This posting is the result of 1) a few years of cross-branch discussions among the Snowshoe Programs of the various branches, and 2) email discussions with the Program Center about how to go about changing the rating system used to classify Snowshoe trips. The feedback we received from the Program Center was that the correct way to document our request for changing the website was to post the changed to feedback.mountaineers.org.

    The Snowshoe Programs of the various branches would like to change the way that Snowshoe Routes and Trips are rated so that each route/trip has a separate Strenuous and… more

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    Completed Nov 2021. The snowshoe Routes & Places, https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/routes-places#b_start=0&c4=Snowshoeing, were updated per the Snowshoe Clubwide Standard, https://www.mountaineers.org/about/vision-leadership/board-of-directors/clubwide-activity-standards/snowshoeing/view.

17. Leader "Difficulty" Rating Default to Blank GH2331

    Currently when listing a new activity, the "Leader Rating" field defaults to "For Beginners (Getting Started Series)" There are cases where a trip is NOT for beginners, but the leader never changed their rating. Can the Leader Rating default to blank, and require the leader to select one of the options rather than default to For Beginners?

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18. Make it easier to view past Participation Notes for all Participants on a Roster GH2763

    From the activity roster it would be helpful to have a quick link to go participation notes. Right now its about 4 clicks from the activity to view someone's participation notes. This is tedious to do for 12 people on a roster. Viewing participation notes is helpful for trip planning and ensuring safety of a trip and mitigate any negative group dynamics.

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19. Summit register at Mount Olympus Middle Peak

    Need to make the Mountaineers summit register at Mount Olympus Middle Peak watertight and bring a register to put in it next time someone goes up there. I looked in it a few days ago. A few soaked scraps of paper is all that is in there. It is the first Mountaineers summit register container I have seen on any peak. Maybe this has some historical value? Will email a photo of it.

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    Hi Jerry,

    We’ve added a note on the Mt. Olympus route/place listing that the middle summit is missing a register and that registers are available at the Seattle Program Center.

    We are also able to mail paper registers to people who aren’t able to stop by the program center and have their own summit tupperware or other watertight container. Email info@mountaineers.org if you have a summit attempt booked and want a register.

20. Add Global Adventures Waiver to GA registration process

    Make it so global adventure participants are prompted to fill out the global adventures waiver form when registering for the activity

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    Completed July 2017

    We added Application, Trip Agreement, and Release Forms to used with Global Adventure activities.