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Only Count Trip, Clinic/Seminar Activities for Guest activity limit GH2769
We'd like new guest members to be able to sign up for courses that have two activities associated with them and be able to join for two regular hikes and right now the course related activities count towards your "guest count"
5 votesCompleted ·
AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Jun 2021.
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5 votes
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Change Kitsap Branch Name to Peninsula Branch GH2736
Long time members of the branch did not think Kitsap captured the true nature of the branch's membership, so voted to rename to Peninsula branch. I expect some increase in membership from the Olympic Peninsula, where more people will feel like this is "their" branch. I do not think this will be significant in the overall scale of membership, of which Kitsap is a small part.
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Improve Text Search Results GH2835/2836/2913(590)
Refine the the text search results for all of the faceted searches including site search. Using threes words (W1, W2, W3) as an example, by rank ordering results in this order:
1. Phrase – W1 and W2 and W3 in that order
2. Contains all three words in any order
3. Contains W1 and W2
4. Contains W1 and W3
5. Contains W2 and W3
6. Contains W1 only
7. Contains W2 only
8. Contains W3 onlyInclude some fuzziness in search (e.g. Ben give results for Ben and Benjamin).
Consider weighting content types (e.g. Books above events).
5 votesWe missed indexing text from the Page content type, so we added that. The removed the Image content type so images will not dwarf other types of content. We determined that that the search ranking was working as desired and described here.
We’ll tackle integrating fuzziness and spelling/typos into another suggestion/project or two.
If you find that a search result you expect is not as high in the search results as you think it should be, please send an email to info @mountaineers.org with:
(1) URL from the search
(2) URL from the item that you think should be ranked higher in the search
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Add "don't show on my profile" checkbox for donor related badges GH2748
Some members would appreciate having their peak society status hidden. Add a don't show on my profile check box to the badge roster entries.
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Add skiing categories to activity and course faceted search GH2753
Its hard to find cross country ski courses in our find activity and course searches. Can we add cross country and backcountry ski filters
5 votesAug 2018
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Committee roster updates based on activity level
One of the things were trying to do right now is clean up the roster, lots of old info there. Any chance those can be self updating fields? For example the scramble standard says leaders have to do at least one trip every 2 years. Something similar could work for instructors too.
5 votesCancelled ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
We added the ability to download badges for all on a committee roster, so there is enough data for a “real human” to review and make decisions about a leader’s status. This is better than a costly automated system that could accidentally remove a person from a roster.
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Make it easier to view past Participation Notes for all Participants on a Roster GH2763
From the activity roster it would be helpful to have a quick link to go participation notes. Right now its about 4 clicks from the activity to view someone's participation notes. This is tedious to do for 12 people on a roster. Viewing participation notes is helpful for trip planning and ensuring safety of a trip and mitigate any negative group dynamics.
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Make Incomplete fields on youth form easier to see GH2332
Make it easier to see incomplete fields on the youth forms. Right now the pinkish/red color is a bit too light making it hard for parents to complete the forms fully.
5 votesYou’ll now see a red exclamation point at the right side of the form. These will disappear after saving the form for fields that were completed.
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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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Fix Email Timestamp for Message Sent from Website GH2292
It appears that when a leader sends an email from the team roster or anyone on the roister send an email from the tabbed nav roster that the timestamp on the email is eight hours earlier than when the email was actually sent. So it would seem that the website is sending the time as UTC rather than PST and the recipient's email server is converting that to PST (8 hours earlier than UTC).
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Create a searchable database of all committee chairs SD646
searchable by activity type, branch (idea came from scramble summit)
5 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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Setting the default role for RSVP's to an event as "volunteers" when appropriate GH2022
Some committees put their meetings on the calendars and people who RSVP are clearly committee volunteers, not "participants." If we could identify which types of events to do this with, it would more accurately capture our volunteer's efforts to default to the role of "volunteer" rather than "participant" when people RSVP to these types of events.
5 votesNov 2016
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Add the Registration Date/Time to the Course Registration Edit Form GH1965
Add the Registration Date/Time to the course registration modal dialog and only show it to site admins so that we can have more flexibility in making waitlist and other roster adjustments to course like we do for activities.
5 votesJan 2017
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Warning message for unrelated activity types tagged on activity listing GH1867
When setting up a trip, the trip defaults to the multiple activity types associated with the route/place. It would be nice if the site gave you a “warning” if you set up a trip with activity types that are different from the committee listing the trip or the activity template chosen to avoid having a ski trip show up in snowshoe and scramble trip listings.
5 votesWe set the default activity type to come from the activity template only when scheduling an activity, and allow the leader to choose or edit the Climbing, Skiing, or Snowshoe categories when scheduling an activity. We also improved the display of activity type and categories on Routes & Places and Activities.
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Need better lighting outside the Seattle Program Center ~Facilities
It's pretty dark on winter night events with a high number of car/pedestrian interfaces from significant parking on the west side of a very busy street, and lots of people activity at the Mountaineers and near by venues. A couple of strategically placed street lights would help a lot. Would probably also help reduce car break in's at the park to have better lighting.
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Add filters to site search GH1877
The main problem with the search is that it returns so many pages of results that excessive paging is required for the search to be very useful. The sort, date, and item type filters do help, but more mechanisms are needed to narrow down the result set: Branch and Activity Type filters, for example.
5 votesWe added Branch and Activity Type field to the Badge, Event and Blog Post items so these items can used as filters in the site search.
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Submitting feedback should be a two step process GH2757/2758/3608
When submitting feedback for an event there should be a two-step process - after entering the information and clicking a button - but before submitting for good - a "view" page should show how the feedback will eventually appear, warn the user that once submitted the feedback can't be changed, and allow the user to go back and edit some more. This is pretty standard for feedback and survey forms.
5 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Nov 2021.
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Make it possible for website to process multiple payments for trips like Global Adventures and Youth Programs
Make it possible for deposits to be taken and then remaining balance paid through the website.
User Story: As a parent registering my child for a youth program, allow me to choose to pay the full amount, or automatically pay in equal monthly installments from this month through the last month of the program with a credit card so that staff need not keep credit card info on file (security risk) and process these cards manually every month.
Note: Though specifically requested for our youth programs, this payment system could be used for any program of sufficient length and cost.
5 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.
This could be accomplished with either of these two projects, “Organizations & Online Invoicing” and “Monthly Payment System.”
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