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19 results found
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Improve Program Center Reservation Process GH1167/1168/1169/1175/1176/1177
Submitting a room reservation for the Seattle Program Center is incredibly time consuming and there is a lot of room for error. For example, the calendar does not show which room is reserved, so you have to click on each event so you can see if the room you want is available. If you're looking for a room in a future month (which is often the case), each time you go back to the calendar, it defaults to the current month, so you then have to scroll again to the date you're looking for and click on the next event…
7 votesClicking on an item on a calendar opens a popup with info about the activity including a link to the full event details. This prevents you from losing your place in the calendar.
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Improve Event Detail Page View GH2927
Improve the event detail page view so that it is more like those for other views like activities, courses and lodge stays. There will be some small re-organization of basic information (e.g. remove phone number), the addition of a tabbed nav area--Location (map and address), Roster (for carpool organization), and Details (mostly info for volunteers)--and showing recommended reading.
5 votesCompleted ·
AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Jun 2022. 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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Clone Events SD585
Add a feature to clone Events like we can do for Lodge Stays. This would be much lime a "recurring events" feature.
5 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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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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Automate Seattle PC Lobby TV Display
Set up a way to automatically display information on the Seattle Program Center lobby television/monitor based on event data from Salesforce, a per-designed template, and a set of chosen images.
3 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
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Completed Aug 2021.
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Pre-populate times on cloned events with those from the event being cloned GH3276
When cloning an event, pre-populate the event times and setup times with the times from the event being cloned. But keep them editable. Normally, a monthly meeting is going to be at the same time. Pre-populating will reduce the chance of entry errors as well. I caught several of my own mistakes.
3 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Jun 2022. 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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Sell Tickets to Events on our Website GH3343/SD669
We have EventBrite as a “workaround.” It does cost money (fees) and some extra staff time (which can be equated to money). Once implemented, we will have a more fully integtared shopping cart and bet better able to serve and engage with our members and guests.
3 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Jun 2022. 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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Add bulk update feature for Event "Attended?" checkbox GH3706
Like we do for email, download, and print, add a Bulk Update Attended All|Selected button that checks or unchecks the Attended? box for all roster records or just the ones selected. When clicked, ask the user if they want to check or uncheck the Attended? box. This will make record-keeping easier for those who choose to use printed sign-in sheets.
When you use the "Add volunteer hours" box at the bottom of an event roster, it adds hours to anyone with a volunteer role, not just the folks who were marked as attended. It would be great to get this…
2 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 ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
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Completed 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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Bring back the ability to post informal weekly activities.
Bring back the ability to post informal weekly activities like the Volleyball, Greenlake Walk and Evening Outdoor In-line Skate acitvities we used to be able to post on the old web site.
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Road and parking conditions at trailhead
This idea is to address via the Mountaineers website a forum or better way of organizing info on trailhead parking, access road conditions, and trail conditions, the concept would be to have an easy convenient way for trip leaders and/or participants (plus any Mountaineers member doing a private trip) to have a central location where they would post information on the status of the trailhead access road, and how much snow or mud there is on the trail, which is always a question mark during the Spring and early Summer.
Currently the only method I am aware of is to…
1 voteCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
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Thanks for sharing your idea. We currently encourage our members to share trip reports after their trips, and they are prompted to report on things like trail and road conditions. All of our routes and places also link to the websites for local land managers, which often have the most updated information on these specific locations. We would love to see more trip reports on our website, and will continue to encourage our members to do so, and we encourage the use of the linked resources already available to assess conditions.
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When adding a reservation to SPC calendar, add an "ability to open/close SPC" checkbox GHPR2742
Facility and Volunteers don't have a clear system for ensuring there is a person on site who can open and close the facility. Under the current system, staff must manually follow-up with each leader or make assumptions about event overlaps and if there is going to be someone that can open/close the facility.
I'd like to see a required checkbox on the add event page that asks:
"Will there be someone that is familiar and able to open and close the program center during this event?" If no, or unsure, please contact the facility staff at spc@mountaineers.org"
We then…
1 voteApr 2018
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For events, be able to RSVP as a volunteer
For events, make it possible for people to sign up as a volunteer. Currently, people who RSVP to an event are labeled participants by default. But on the roster, there are 3 roles people can have: event contact, volunteer, or participant. Whoever is managing the roster can re-label people as volunteers, but it would be nice if people could initially RSVP themselves as a volunteer. This would also serve as a recruitment tool for events that need extra volunteers. But maybe this could be a feature that you could turn on or off by adding separate lines in the event…
1 voteWe have the ability to set events up to default registrants to be listed as volunteers. This works really well for committee meetings and instructor trainings. When you are creating the event simply go to the RSVP tab and hit the default role for RSVP to be volunteer, it will default to participant. If you use the participant default you can set up a “Want to Volunteer” button on your event that can be set up to email you. There was concern that volunteering for an event requires some back and forth about roles and responsibilities so emailing the leader was helpful.
Learn how to set this up here: https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/leader-resources/branch-committee-how-tos#rsvp
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Add More White Space Between Events on Calendar View GH1992
Add a bit more white space between events on the calendar view so that they do not appear mushed together as they do in some cases.
Here's an example for August 2016 on https://www.mountaineers.org/about/locations-reservations/seattle-program-center/events
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Default location on map in Events GH1781
For adding events to branches other than Seattle and Tacoma can the location map to defauit somewhere in the Puget Sound Area instead of coordinates so folks can more easily drag the dot around.
1 voteApril 2016.
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Tacoma Program Center Calendar
We need a program center calendar for Tacoma the way Seattle does.
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Show Guests in Event RSVP Portlet : GH2474
Right now you can't see your guests in the event register portlet which means its hard to know how to cancel/add until you open.
0 votesDec 2017
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Make Events work on tagging system for all branches GH2284
Right now you can't tag an event to multiple calendars and we want to be able to show some events in multiple branches calendars without having to copy and paste. Please make events work this way rather than the folder system to allow greater flexibility and maintain only rsvp roster.
0 votesJan 2017
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Better sort for event calendar contents view GH1837/1955
When working on Events in Contents view, the oldest events (two years ago, as of now) sort to the top of the list. That means repeatedly paging to the end of the list to get to the Events of interest. Since, every time the page is refreshed, it starts over at the top of the list, the paging effort must be repeated over-and-over and is very time consuming.
Please change the list to sort in descending date order. Or better yet: present and future dates in ascending order followed by past dates in descending order.
Also, the event date is…
0 votesThe column headers in the “folder contents” view are now spaced correctly and you can sort (as you always have) by clicking on a column header for the forward sort. Click a second time for the reverse sort.
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