General Feedback
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Make it possible to have org wide policies and info pages show higher in search results
Right now its impossible to search for the carpooling page in the general search because people use the word carpooling in everything. It'd be great to be able to mark certain pages and blogs that have important organization wide information to the top of the search.
2 votesThe issue here was that the “Page” content type was not indexed for searches. So this is fixed.
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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 votesCompleted ·
AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
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.
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Hide Payment Pending from Add to Roster Dialog Box GH2755
Make it so Payment Pending is not a status available for leaders/admins to choose from the Add person to roster dialogue box. Offered is the status that should be used to hold a slot for someone in a course and allows them to process payment. Payment Pending is the quick status that someone goes into when they have 15 minutes to process course and acitivty and lodge registrations in their shopping carts.
2 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Sep 2022.
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Radio buttons needed to indicate snowcat times for Meany Lodge GH2595
For Meany Lodge registrations, we would like radio buttons so the participant can indicate which snowcat they will come in on, as well as dietary restrictions which is free text.
2 votesDec 2017
Implemented as “Adding a question to ask guests when they register.”
- Meany Lodge is using this to ask for snowcat time.
- Baker Lodge is using this to ask for automobile info (make, model, license).See https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteer/schedule-manage/lodge-stays#requested-info for how this works.
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Show Events in a Course's "Course Requirements" Tab GH2827
We often have graduation celebrations at the end of a course. These are just events to which the committee, leaders, instructors, students, graduates and former graduates are invited to attend. It would be great if they could be RSVP-style events that appear in the course's "Course Requirements" tab. That would save having to "double list" by listing an activity that is really not needed an would also need to be closed.
Implementation Note: Add a field to the Event add/edit form to choose one or more Course Templates to list the event on courses within that template and where the…
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Make Event, Activity and Course feedback fields function the same way GH2762/3035/3493
All of our courses, events and activities have feedback forms but if you have a specific form you'd like to send to your participants we can make a change on the backend in salesforce. Unfortunately when we do this the field shows up differently on Events, Activities and Courses. We'd like it to be the same and clarify whether no feedback is collected or whether its being collected via salesforce/other (usually a link to survey gizmo).
2 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Nov 2020.
We added a “Skip sending feedback requests?” to Activities, Courses, Events, and Lodge Stays in Salesforce, the platform used to send these requests, so that staff may suppress sending the email request for feedback. Participants may still complete the feedback survey associate with the activity, course, event, or lodge stay if desired. A request for a survey from another platform like Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) may be sent to participants.
We also added an “Is this a meeting?” checkbox to the event edit form on the website. Anyone you may add or edit an event can check this box. If this box is checked, the email request for feedback will not be sent, but participant may leave feedback from the event page or their My Activities page.
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Add ability to add end date to monthly donations GH2761
Make it possible to set up monthly donation for a specific time period. Ideally be able to be put in an amount with an expiration date. We had a number of donors at the breakfast who were interested in giving say $250 but wanted it in $50 increments for 5 months.
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Connect Senior Household Memberships
Add functionality to connect Senior households memberships where both people in the household can switch between accounts, just like Family accounts.
2 votesWe have a number of critical items currently on our high priority list, and while this would certainly be a benefit for our senior members, this project does not yet have enough votes to warrant higher prioritization, and, because it’s an improvement to existing functionality, we must prioritize it below things which need to be fixed or built for the first time.
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Note major jewish, christian and muslim holidays on online calendar to promote inclusivity and avoid double booking
It'd be great if the online reservation calendar noted major holidays like rosh hashanah, yom kippur, Eid Al-Fitr, easter etc so that volunteers are less likely to schedule activities on courses on those evenings. This would go a long way towards building an inclusive culture at The Mountaineers.
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Have a couple of pages in the magazine to post gear for sale - would be a great service to both seller and buyer
Have a couple of pages in the magazine to post gear for sale - would be a great service for both seller and buyer.
2 votesHi Sharon,
Right now our magazine only comes out quarterly which means if you want something to show up for Spring magazine (mar/april/may). you have to have your gear contribution in by January 1. This is a long time to plan out selling something. After talking with additional folks interested in selling gear we’ve determined that gear sellers need to be able to have a more timely place to advertise gear. There is also no way to indicate that gear has been sold.We encourage folks to use Mountaineers Marketplace "https://www.facebook.com/groups/377304859047281/
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Leader Permission Links
Posting on behalf of a Mountaineer Leader.
The location of the "Request Leader's Permission" link is very confusing because it looks as if permission is required to be a leader of the trip rather than a participant.
What's more confusing is that the screenshot is from this trip to Lila Lakehttps://www.mountaineers.org/explore/activities/backpack-lila-lake-1, which is not set up to have any any assistant leaders, so one wonders why "leader prerequisites" are shown at all. I thought I might be seeing a different screen because I am a backpack leader, but the screen looks the same when viewed in incognito mode…
2 votesThanks for bringing this to our attention. Our member services team has not received additional feedback from our members that this is an issue. If in the future we receive feedback about this we can re-open this idea.
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Search and filter hikes by vertical gain, mileage, and distance using range sliders
Search and filter hikes by vertical gain, mileage, and distance using range sliders, similar to WTA's interface.
...and allow for further filtering of results by geo using map zoom functionality, similar to that of Zillow NOTE: We already have map view, see the comments.
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An optional listing of activities by sign-up closing date would be useful.
Greetings, I am looking at the webpage listing of backpacking trips
https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/activities#c4=Backpacking&_authenticator=85ed85bf9f9b5b690f54ae2e41091ad49b0b5563
and there are trips that commence several weeks from now that have sign-ups closing this week. I suspect that these trips will be undersubscribed because people don't scroll down far enough. If the trips could optionally be listed by sign-up closure, that would help these trips to get more attention. Thank you!2 votes -
Add a My Blog Posts Page GH2829
Add a "My Blog Posts" page to the My Profile area so that members can find their own blog posts and blog posts by their favorite member bloggers more easily.
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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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.
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Integrate Salesforce with Acumatica
The current process involves manual assignment of revenue codes for memberships, courses, etc., a time-consuming task that is subject to inconsistent interpretation and error. Integration would automate this process, reducing time spent entering data and improve the accuracy of our data. We'd also like to sync (or be able use an export-import process) to transfer data from SF to Acumatica.
2 votesPlease see the IT Planning & Prioritization sheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x1_tMuGpZZC4-xxyiDTzALvnbSPn2SJz3FveQQuyfmY/edit?usp=sharing, for where this project is ranked among other projects.
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When viewing roster (from yellow bar) include date of activity somewhere near the top GH2326
Real helpful when I have multiple rosters for course-related activity. Example: Kayak Roll Course, with 3 associated pool sessions. I can easily get confused as to which one I am working on at the time. Right now, all three look identical. If dated would show up while in the roster editing screen, then I would instantly be able to verify which one is open.
2 votesDec 2017
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Filter for Full Courses/Activities SD638/639
Use cases:
* I am a participant and I want to only view courses and activities that have availability.
* I am a leader and I want to only view courses and activities that have leader availability.2 votes -
Improve Feedback forms ~PloneOnly
Please fix the feedback form-
Under the overall rating you only give four options and there have been a number of times that I didn’t want to mark “Pretty good, I'd go again” or “Not so great, I'd think twice about going again”, but needed something right in the middle like- it was OK, but I might or might not do it again.
With the options given “Not so great” is just a little better than a disaster. We need some kind of “ho hum” option. Sometimes it isn’t as bad as “Not so great” but it isn’t “Pretty good”…2 votesWe recently reviewed and updated all of our feedback forms. We opted stick with four response options, to avoid too many folks “sitting on the fence” – but we did update the options to include a more neutral “it was fine” choice. Additionally, we rephrased the question/replies to focus on the person’s experience on that specific trip, regardless of whether or not they would go again. Please see the following example:
Please rate your overall experience on this trip.
> It was excellent, I loved everything!
> It was just fine, nothing stood out as particularly positive or negative.
> It wasn’t my favorite, there were a few things that I didn’t enjoy.
> It was terrible, I didn’t like anything!We also included some additional questions related to building a more welcoming, inclusive environment, limiting our impact on our public lands and clarifying any safety related incidents.
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Internal Link Dialog Fixes GH1949/1950
Allow course listed to be selected as internal links by clicking through the bread crumbs or search.
Fix the dialog so that when the breadcrumbs wrap to a second line, that they do not overlap the list of selections.
2 votesThis is now fully complete!
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