General Feedback
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Ability to switch activity templates for trips after trips have been created GH1937
Can you make it easier to switch a climb to an alpine scramble and vice versa when accidently listed the wrong way. Or to make a switch from winter scramble template and regular scramble template so the right pre-reqs are listed for the trip I want to lead.
3 votesLeaders and committee admins on their behalf may now change the activity template for trips they have scheduled.
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Web forms and surveys integrated into the website GH1674
It would be great to have web forms available to leaders so we can create course applications, branch surveys, run branch elections, etc directly on the website using the member's login
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Importing pre-website launch activity and course history onto the new website.
This is actively being worked on right now as part of a planned post-launch enhancement. It was one of the most frequently heard requests immediately after launch of the new website. There are a number of technical barriers and issues to work through because of the intense integration of activity, membership, course, and roster data that exists in our system, but the developers are telling us we can expect them all to be worked through by mid-December at this point.
4 votesCompleted 12/8
We imported ALL courses, clinics, seminars and trips. We were not able to import all lectures and field trips related to a course. This means you will be able to see your course information, but won’t necessarily see all of the course related activities. For example: You will see that you took Basic Climbing, but will not see the crevasse-rescue field trip associated with that course.\
We felt it was important to have as much information imported as possible, which means the data isn’t always the cleanest. Prior to 2003, we did not have a good way of digitally storing this information. Which means some dates may be wrong – it defaults to 1906 – and some details may be missing (because they weren’t previously required). The current state of your profile history is the best we can provide the the historical data on file.
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Group instructors/leaders separately on course rosters
Group leaders and instructors separately from course participants in course rosters
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Merge Duplicate Member Records
Member Services needs to be able to merge duplicate member records.
1 voteCompleted 12/8/14
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New Email Management system needed
We need a better email management system so our members can choose which emails they want from us.
1 voteIn November we started using Exact Target to manage our newsletters and other organizational wide emails.
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Tacoma Program Center Calendar
We need a program center calendar for Tacoma the way Seattle does.
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Apply member discount to course fee if membership is in shopping cart
It's giving me the non-member price for the course even though I have a membership in my shopping cart.
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Improve the ability to act as family member for activity registration
It doesn't seem to be working to masquerade as a family member from the My Profile drop down menu.
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Improve Incident Reporting GH824
Incident reporting appears as just an embedded email link in the trip report
when a leader closes an activity. Its output are the emails that appear
from those trip leaders sending the email. That makes it harder for the
Safety Officer to identify and group them in mail. Basic metadata like
which branch this pertains to is not appended in the body. That makes it
hard to determine who is accountable for follow up. It would be really nice
if we could re-institute a form that writes to the DB and generates an email
FROM a single incident reporting address…1 voteCompleted Nov 2014.
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Honorary Members
Have a place on our site about our honorary members.
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Make it easier for us to organize carpools
And have communication between trip participants be easier.
More specifically we would like to see whether person
A) wants to carpool
B) ride or drive
C) where they are coming from
D) Be able to contact them or potentially the whole group of people who wants to carpool in one swift email.2 votesThis was completed and launched on 12/8. If you have further suggestions about this tool please continue to list on the feedback site.
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Allow seminars to be displayed on the home page with events
Right now, even if you add the Home Page tag to a seminar it still doesn't show up on the Home Page when upcoming activities are shown. This has meant that I have to create a duplicate of the seminar as an event to get it to show up. This is a lot of extra work. Can we please be allowed to add the Home Page tag to seminars and have them come up on the Home Page?
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Org-wide Award Badges
We'd like to explore options for giving committee members the ability to self-administer org-wide award badges. Currently the only volunteers who directly manage badge rosters are branch admins for their award badges. That said, we have some award badges that are org-wide and we'll have to think about how we might allow a group of volunteers to manage that.
Example is the Climb Leader Emeritus badge: https://www.mountaineers.org/membership/badges/leader-badges/climb-leader-emeritus
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Feedback Load Speed Issues for Committee Admins GH3610
When the committee admins use the "View Committee Feedback” button, but when they click it, it is often slow to respond or returns a timeout error.
0 votesCompleted ·
AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Nov 2021.
The biggest issue here was the amount of feedback to aggregate. We defaulted to “Lifetime” which is all the data. Here is what we fixed and how we recommend using committee/leader feedback:
- Set the default to the “Last 12 Months” filter so it loads albeit a little slowly.
- Moved the "Lifetime" filter to the bottom. Be sure to only use it in combination with either a leader filter or a course template filter. Those are typically small enough data sets to not cause a timeout.
- Replaced the date filter widgets with the more modern version, and one that actually works.
It’s lot of work to improve the load time for “Lifetime” and we need to upgrade the forms we use for feedback, so we’ll tackle this later with the upgrade.
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Improve My Profile Preferences View GH3064/3573/3534
Improve how a member’s preferences are displayed on the bottom of their My Profile page and to minimize confusion on where and how to change (edit) them.
Notes:
- Don't show checkboxes or data entry boxes with their “values,” because it makes them look editable.
- Remove help text, so that essentially only the field labels and their values are displayed and so that the view is more compact.
- Some of the “answers” will need to be “calculated” to make the view more user-friendly.
- Move items on the Profile Edit Form to match the My Preferences view (both…0 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Nov 2021.
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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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Add to Check to Feedback Forms for Incident Report Info GH2731/2732
When checking whether to send an email to the Safety Committee (for all feedback forms) and whether to direct the user to the Incident Report Form (for activity-related feedback forms only) after submitting a Feedback Survey Form, in addition to checking if the answer to "Were there any safety incidents or near-misses on this trip? " is "yes," also check to see if the "Describe the incident or near-miss." response in NOT empty, If either is true send the Safety Committee and email and redirect the user to the Incident Report.
0 votesCompleted April 2018.
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Change Shopping Cart Timer Message Text GH2932
Change the shopping cart timer message text to:
You have {time_remaining} minutes to complete your registration and payment or your registration will be canceled to give others a chance to register.”
Where time_remaining is 30, 29, 28, etc. minutes (it starts at 30 minutes, a website setting that can be increased or decreased if needed).
It seems like it might be better to show how many minutes remain to give a better sense of urgency.
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Contact Merge Improvements GH2406/2578
Merge content authorship (e.g. Routes & Places, blogs, feedback responses etc.) when merging contacts.
0 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Jun 2020.
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