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  1. Family Activities Exception GH2280

    In family activities only, recognize when an adult attached to a youth membership has registered and override the Youth Information Form requirement for youth attached to the registered adult’s membership when they register. They would still need to be required to fill out the Family activities program form because otherwise we’d have no waiver on file for the youth.

    Considerations:

    What do we do if the parent or parents cancel? This is a family activity which should be parent-child combos, so this does not seem like but…?
    From Becca - Is there an option to have the system cancel a…

    4 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    This is complete. To make it work, for an activity that is for families, remember to check the “Family activity?” box and choose “Families” in the Activity Audience field.

  2. Avy terrain rating GH2743

    Add an avy terrain category rating to each route/place based on the highest risk area. Eg our Nordic Touring books list avalanche danger as "none, low, moderate, etc" The idea is that any route/place that has an NWAC link also has an avy rating so students can make informed decisions. (came from both snowshoe and scramble summits)

    4 votes

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  3. Move Link to Request Leadership Permission Above Checkbox

    When an activity has Leadership Permission Required, the link to the application is at the end of the checkbox. The ask is to move this link to above the checkbox (or at least the first think in the statement) to make it clearer to students where the application link is.

    Submitted by KD.

    3 votes

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  4. Only Allow Stewardship Committees to Post Stewardship Trips

    Currently any committee leader can post a stewardship trip. Now that we have new stewardship standards that states stewardship trips must be posted by committees that are chartered to sponsor stewardship, can we update the website so that only leaders on stewardship committees can post stewardship trips.

    At this time, any leader of any committee can post any type of trip but we see more instances of non-Stewardship chartered committee leaders, posting stewardship trips that do not align with stewardship standards.

    3 votes

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    This idea has been completed! As mentioned previously, we have 1) educated leaders that Stewardship trips should be done only by Stewardship committees, 2) prevent future trips by finding and notifying past leaders who did not follow this guidance and 3) set up automated alerts and emails for when these situations occur to immediately address and take down the activity. Alerts/emails go to both Devin/Michelle and also the primary leader of the activity. With these changes, we should be able to monitor and address these cases with ease.

  5. 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 votes

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  6. The doors are closed to most of us.

    Publish lists of truly open events where organizers are not micromanaging who can attend. The list will be incredibly short. Others have commented on this and per usual someone with 'official authority' to do so deleted their thoughts and suggestions. This is absurd, rude, and asinine. The arrogance demonstrated is remarkable. The issue stands. There are painfully few outings available (particularly for Basic Climbing Grads) to participate in. This does not feel like a club at all, but a set of tight cliques that are energetically guarded.

    3 votes

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Hi Douglas,

    You are not alone in your frustration about the limited number of climbs for basic grads. In fact I’d encourage you to read this thread and comment on it which discusses this same issue so you can better understand the climb leader’s perspective as well

    http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/272594-leaders/suggestions/6939679-future-activity-sign-up-dates-modifying-registrat

    I am closing this feedback item because we are trying to make sure their aren’t duplicates of the same item. The issue you brought up is incredibly important and was actually discussed recently by the managing committee.

    The Managing Committee met on April 30, 2015 and decided to take no action on the issue right now. Central issues that contribute to these frustrations that they identified were a shortage of leaders and the various legitimate needs for pre-filling a roster that should not be disrupted. However, they decided that working on increasing the leader base and monitoring frustrations related to this issue…

  7. Need Indoor Meeting Activity Type for Routes/places

    When submitting a new Route/Place request I’d like an Activity Type for meetings, lectures, and other indoor activities. I just need one so you pick the terminology that serves best. I asked for this before and was rejected because the PC’s understanding for our outing takes precedence over ours. Now I’ve run into the issue again and I reiterate that we have indoor activities, like lectures for our courses and we need a suitable activity type to classify them.

    Thankfully, activity type is optional now, so we no longer need to describe a meeting room as an “urban adventure”. But…

    3 votes

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    5 comments  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    We’ve added a field called “Common Uses” so we can search for venues suitable for lectures, meetings, field trips, “regular” trips, etc.

    All routes/places default that had been previously entered will get the Trip as default but we can go in and add multiple uses. This will allow someone who is trying to schedule a meeting to simply search Routes/places by meeting/lecture use type.

    When leaders go in and create new routes/places especially for places used for field trips and lectures and meetings we encourage these to be added to the type ahead field however we understand that most routes/places entered are for places we lead trips so this defaults to that and does not require you to fill out anything else in order to save leaders time when creating new R/Ps.

  8. 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 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Leaders and committee admins on their behalf may now change the activity template for trips they have scheduled.

  9. 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.

    2 votes

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  10. 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.

    2 votes

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    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…

  11. 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.

    2 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    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.

  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.

    2 votes

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    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    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. Add Email Notification for Comments SD642

    Make it so comments on trip reports, blog posts, etc. send an email to the person who posted the trip report so they can respond and have a dialogue about conditions. We'll also need a way to opt out of this email.

    Note: If the commenter shared their profile their name is a link that will provide their email address.

    2 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →

    We have added new notifications that will email the blog author or trip reporter when a new comment or comment reply has occurred on their trip/blog! This was made possibly by altering our notification rules on the website and did not require any new website development. We ensured documentation was updated so that people are aware of this change and how to disable a discussion if they do not want notifications.

  14. Warning message to leader if other trips scheduled in that area ~Salesforce

    For routes that can have multiple trips listed... Can I suggest a website change for those locations that allow multiple registrations, to possibly have some sort of a pop-up come up informing the leader something to the effect of

    "Yeah you are the only one currently registered for this location on your activity date" or

    "hmm -- you are now the Xth user registering for this location on on your activity date; please use your judgement about whether this would work"

    2 votes

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  15. Option for "Closed" vs "Open" Activities

    There needs to be a better way to handle closed activity sign-ups such as SIG-only outings. When hunting for activities, it is frustrating how many of the outings are actually closed events for a set group of people and not open to the public. Surely there's a way to remove these closed events from the publicly searchable activities board.

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  16. Filter activities based on single vs. multiple day activities (camping, overnights, etc.)

    Today, users have the ability to search courses, seminars, and clinics based on if they are a single day or multiple day experience. The ask is to have a similar filter for activities.

    • Submitted for KD
    1 vote

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  17. Activity Reminder Email

    The idea suggested was to create an automated email reminder that would remind the participant of the activity 5 days before it closes - calling out that if they are unable to attend to cancel and why. This will hopefully prompt those who need to cancel to do so in advance and ensure others can register in their place.

    1 vote

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  18. Send a reminder before an activity closes reminding people to cancel in advance

    An email reminder should be sent out 5 days before registration closes to help prompt people to cancel in advance if they need to cancel which will give leaders time to prepare and others time to sign up.

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  19. Make 'alternative place' names visible from Routes (see GH1476?)

    The alternative place names that are accessible partway through setting up a trip are of limited usefulness when you cannot view them beforehand. For example - I tried to set up a hike going to West Tiger #2. I couldn't see that there was such a route under the WT 1-2-3; I ended up setting up the trip under WT 3, using the Section Line alternative (at least partly correct). Learning of the existence of the WT#2, I was unable to Edit the trip via the WT 1-2-3 as the alternatives don't appear.

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  20. Update webpage text for how to close an activity

    On https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteer/schedule-manage/activities#closing-activities

    it states 'When viewing the activity, click on the "Roster" button in the orange admin panel on the left side of the screen. Under "Set Activity Results", you can choose a Trip Result, then click the "Save" button.'

    It seems that 'close activity' has been moved out of the Roster section, and into a 'Manage Activity' section on the right hand side of the page. The text should be updated to indicate that.

    Thank you!

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