General Feedback
This forum is for you to share ideas and exchange feedback with Mountaineers members, guests, volunteers, and leadership. You may vote for or comment on any idea and will be notified of its status changes. Your feedback helps us prioritize projects and improvements for our organization.
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Revise Save Data Adapter View GH2941
The PFG "Save to Data" adapter view (see attached) make it seem to easy to delete the entire data set, because the "Clear Saved Input" button is too prominent. I think it would be best is the big blue button were changed to be "Download Saved Data" and we add a "Clear saved data" link at the right of the page.
1 voteCompleted Dec 2018.
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Enable Safety Officers to Submit Incident Reports GH2964
Allow Safety Officer ability to submit an Incident Report tied to an activity, course or event on another person's behalf (e.g. from a phone interview).
3 votesThis idea has been incorporated into our Incident Report form already, so this idea is being marked as complete! As shown in the image attached, you can edit the name and email attached to an Incident Report to be yourself or someone else.
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Integrate Spelling/Typo Correction/Suggestion into Text Search GH2953/3738
Add a feature or features that better handles misspellings and typos in text search strings. Two possibilities are: (1) a way to show potential spelling errors or typos like the red squiggly lines under such words, and/or (2) a feature like Google's "Showing results for {your corrected search string}. Search with {your original search string} instead."
3 votesSite search has been improved as part of Tech Update 4.5. The blog with the details of this update can be found here: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more
Please note, search will always be a work in progress but we hope that the updates made in 4.5 assist with searches for now as we continue to work to improve our search capabilities.
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Integrate Fuzzy Logic to Text Search GH2837
As a site visitor give when I submit a search with text search terms, give me search results that are "fuzzy" so that I get a better and more comprehensive list of items that meet my search criteria.
By "fuzzy" we're thinking of things like singular vs. plural (e.g. leader vs. leaders) and first names (e.g. Ben vs. Benjamin).
4 votesSite search has been improved as part of Tech Update 4.5. The blog with the details of this update can be found here: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more
Please note, search will always be a work in progress but we hope that the updates made in 4.5 assist with searches for now as we continue to work to improve our search capabilities.
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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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Fix rich text fields in our form builders so that are mobile accessible.
In order to make application processes simple for the applicants, we need to be able to allow the applicant to hyperlink other documents into an application, which we use a rich text field for. these rich text fields are not accessible (or even visible) on mobile, so we're getting applications with blank answers, and the applicant didn't even know there were questions they missed.
1 voteCompleted May 2019. We “fixed” existing forms that have/had rich text fields.
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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 Jun 2019.
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Multiple badges within a committee GH2933
As more committees move towards multiple leader badges, it would be helpful for committees to be able to easily assign more than one badge to their leaders (For example: Basic Snowshoe Leader and Intermediate Snowshoe Leader).
This would provide the ability for a committee to assign other specialty badges as well such as a "mentor" badge.
Committees should be able to assign these badges to a new leader or when editing an existing leader, and it would be very helpful if they could do all of it from within their committee roster.
5 votesThis was completed as part of the website 4.5 upgrade in February 2024. https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more.
Thank you for your patience and feedback.
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Tweak to Volunteer RSVP button GH3343
Having a button for volunteers to RSVP is great, however it's quite confusing for those wishing to attend the event even if there is a link or button in the text for them to go to EventBrite.
My suggestion...when we're setting up an event RSVP and choosing Volunteer instead of participant, it would be more helpful if the button it creates in the right sidebar says RSVP as Volunteer instead of just RSVP. The text above the button should also reflect that it's to volunteer. See my examples.
2 votesCompleted Jun 2022.
Now that can sell tickets on our website, we no longer need Eventbrite and the method to distinguish buying ticket (paid or free) or RSVPing to attend a meeting and volunteering for an event that are on the event's page are all this is needed.
See our Tech Update 4.3 blog post for more info: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-3-selling-tickets-to-events.
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Automate updating profile URL when a member changes their name
Automatically update profile url when a member changes their name in the system to avoid negatively impacting people (one example of a demographic that could be negatively impacted is trans folks). Right now, if a member updates their name in the system, it updates everything except URL generation automatically. The user then has to personally email someone to manually update it. It would be good if this process was automated to decrease the need for this extra step.
4 votesThe solution mentioned previously is now live on the website! It is now clear to members on how to request a URL change for their profile.
Stay up to date on website changes here! https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/technology-changelog
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Allow course leaders to offer spots to students whose offer has expired GH2971
Right now students are offered a spot and they have 5 days to complete offer and then they are put into cancelled mode. Students also can be trying to complete their offer online and for courses where you have to pick field trips they often navigate away from the screen to check calendars and when they come back the 30 minutes is up and they have been kicked into cancelled mode. Both of these cancellations usually result in the student reaching out to the course leader and the course leader is unable to offer them a spot so instead member…
1 voteCompleted Apr 2019.
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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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Make the Write-In Amount Box on the Donation Page Wider GH2902
On the Donation Pages make the write-in amount box wider. Examples:
- Donate: https://www.mountaineers.org/donate
- MAP Scholarship Fund: https://www.mountaineers.org/donate/other-giving-options/map-scholarship-fund (see attached)Probably as wide as the one on the checkout page (see attached).
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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 Mar 2022.
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Add start month to automated year attached to courses etc
For courses and activities, the year auto-populates in the listing, but the accounting department needs the month to be part of that, otherwise they have to manually go into each listing to find out what month the course happens and where to book the revenue
3 votesCompleted Oct 2020. Adding the start date to the Salesforce report accenting uses to enter data into Acumatica is sufficient.
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Add new brands on ExpertVoice
I love this perk and have used it 3 times already. My only complaint is that there needs to be new brands added on. I remember getting an email about a brand item only to find out it's not on The Mountaineers. How hard is it to add more?
I know we all like different brands so I would hate to loose any just want more added in.1 voteThanks for your note Vickie. We’re happy to hear that you are enjoying and taking advantage of the benefits offered through your membership. ExpertVoice has been one of our generous supporters for many years, and they offer discounts on brands for Mountaineers at two different levels: about 100 brands are available for members, and 300 brands are available for volunteers (who volunteer five or more days a year). ExpertVoice selects the different brands available at each tier. If you’d like to provide them with additional feedback, you can do so at https://www.expertvoice.com/contact.
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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 Jun 2020.
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Improve Event Edit Form GH2777/2805/2760
(1) Re-order, update and add fields on the event edit form to make it easier for volunteers to complete.
(2) Add validation that at least one "room" was selected for the Tacoma Program Center.
(3) Set the Event Setup and Departure datetimes to default to the Start datetime - 30 min and End datetime + 30 min when adding an activity to the Seattle and Tacoma Program Center calendars. For editing an event, "remember" the time difference between Setup and Start datetime AND between End and Departure datetime and use those as defaults for editing the Start and/or End datetime.4 votesCompleted Feb 2019
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Upgrade to latest 4.3.x version of Plone GH2850
To make sure we have the latest bugfixes, can more easily contribute any fixes of our own back to Plone, and are in the best position to upgrade to Plone 5.
0 votesCompleted Dec 2018.
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Improve Book Author Import GH2780/2803
(1) Set up author bios to get exported/imported the same way that we do the book long descriptions, to avoid the need to truncate them.
(2) In the Acumen-Plone sync, automatically check the "Show in byline" box for all contacts if there are three or fewer authors on the book's roster. Note that we'll manually update book rosters for this when there are four or more on the book's roster.
3 votesCompleted Jun 2019.
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