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Adding a Section/Tab to Books for Awards GH3073
An idea we had some time ago was creating an Awards tab, much like "Descriptions" "Reviews" "Video" -- but at the time we decided against it because we thought it would be best to highlight it in the Description field anyways.
But now that the feed to our 3rd parties are being more restrictive on the level of HTML we can have, the above argument against holds a lot less ground.
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Adding a "Related Items" section for additional information on Book product page GH3074
Add a new tab alongside "Description" "Video" and "Reviews" for related items, especially blogs.
The idea is to present complementary content when the product page is the landing page, esp. considering the % of our page sessions are from New Users.
Aside from links to our blog, other items could be downloads, related events* -- it's also why I don't want to just call this tab "Blogs," as it doesn't necessarily reflect the full scope.
*Though personally, I think this should be its own tab, and would be pulled automatically from Author Events calendar.
I thought about just linking whatever…
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Show past activities on a route
When looking at a route, you can see future activities as well as trip reports. I'd like to see a list of past activities, along with their completion status and leader name (whether they posted a trip report or not).
This would make it easier to contact past trip leaders to ask them about conditions, etc. as well as to get a sense of when people typically use the route.Thanks!
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Improve My Profile Preferences View GH3064/3573/3534
Improve how a member’s preferences are displayed on the bottom of their My Profile page and to minimize confusion on where and how to change (edit) them.
Notes:
- Don't show checkboxes or data entry boxes with their “values,” because it makes them look editable.
- Remove help text, so that essentially only the field labels and their values are displayed and so that the view is more compact.
- Some of the “answers” will need to be “calculated” to make the view more user-friendly.
- Move items on the Profile Edit Form to match the My Preferences view (both…0 votesCompleted Nov 2021.
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Pre-orders & Backorders: Add Next Available Date GH2991
- Add a Next Available Date to the Book content type.
- Add it to the Acumen-Plone nightly sync: InvProduct.NextRelease_Date
- Sync it to Salesforce: Product.NextAvailableDate__c
- Replace now hidden "Out of stock" text with: For pre-orders: "This book has not yet been released and will be available {Publication Date}."
- For backorder: "This book is currently out-of-stock. We will have it back in stock by next available date."
- Use it for "your credit card is about to expire" pre-order/backorder email alerts
2 votesCompleted Sep 2019.
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Alerts & Notifications "Leave Blank for All Branches" GH3015
For the "Branches" field change it so that leaving it blank is the same as having selected all of the branches in the list.
Change the help text for Branches to: With these branches... (leave blank to choose all branches)
Change the help text for Activities to: Of these types... (choose at least one to get notifications)
0 votesCompleted Jul 2019.
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Course Activity Data Export Improvement GH3028
Investigate alternatives for the Course Activities Export. It takes several minutes to get the datatables view, because there are often several thousand records associated with the request. There may be more, but few options are:
Check how much overhead there is in Diazo processing of the markup? Avoiding that may be one reason that converting the main course roster view to be React-based helped so much. If that's correct you could possibly load this part of the page in an iframe that bypasses Diazo.
A bit off the wall... After clicking the "download" button, display a message (in a popup?)…
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Pre-order/Backorder Quantity GH3044
As a website visitor pre-ordering or backordering a a book, allow me to enter a quantity that is applied when I click the "pre-order" or "backorder" button, and allow me to change this on the payment page, so that I may pre- or backorder more than one copy of a book at a time.
3 votesCompleted Oct 2021
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Pre-order/Backorder User-applied Promo Codes GH3045
As a website visitor pre-ordering or backordering a book, allow me to enter a promo code on the payment page, so that I can receive a discount if one is offered. And display the automatically applied promo code the member discount.
4 votesCompleted Oct 2021.
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Improve Universal Header Search for Books GH3048
Overall we need to better promote books when using the site search in the universal header when the Books global header is being viewed. Here is some data and an idea. There are more ideas in the comments.
** When author name searched their books appear too far down results **
When an author name is typed into the search bar often their books are found waaaay down the page, as is the case with these results when searching Molly Hashimoto and Heather Anderson:
https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=molly+hashimoto
https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=heather+anderson (Mud Rocks shows up but Thirst isn't even on the first page of results)
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4 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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Improve Author-Book Relationship in Acumen and Plone GH3050
In some cases, we have a contributor who has one role on one book and another role on another book (e.g. "by" and "Foreword by"). In these cases we end up with multiple contact records for the same contributor. In Plone, we have this covered with the "member," "book," and "book roster." In Acumen, we need to be sure that we have only one contributor record and use the "override role" field when their contribution is different from their primary role.
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Improve Address Entry & Management GH2975/3062/3146
(1) When a user buys books or merchandise and checks out as a guest, use the shipping address they entered as the billing address on the page where we collect their credit card information. Or maybe it's better if we add a "Billing address is same as shipping address" checkbox above the billing address fields. This seems like the better, more common user experience.
(2) Add shipping address fields to the contact profile and rename "address" fields to billing address. Use the shipping and billing addresses as defaults for purchase for logged in users. Sync the shipping address to Salesforce.
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4 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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More Naturalist Articles
Wildlife photography especially is effective at stretching newcomers to the outdoors beyond climbing and running.
2 votesThanks for the suggestion. As a nonprofit and volunteer-led organization, all content is contributed on a volunteer basis and is a reflection of the interests and expertise of our membership. We do not currently have a wildlife specific photography group, however we do have an active photography committee which shares regular blogs about their trips. We also feature wildlife photography in a number of the books published by Mountaineers Books. If you’re interested in learning more, please contact the photography committee (https://www.mountaineers.org/locations-lodges/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-photography-committee) or you can volunteer to contribute your own wildlife photography content here: https://www.mountaineers.org/mountaineer-magazine/contribute).
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When trips are co-led by two leaders who report to different branches and committees please can both sponsor and share credit? GH3075
When trips are co-led by two leaders who report to different branches and committees please can both sponsor and share credit?
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Automatically Add Instructors to Committee Roster GH2511
When an person registers for or is registered for an activity as an Instructor, in addition to adding them to the course's team roster (if part of a course), add them as an Instructor to the sponsoring Committee's team roster as an instructor or check their instructor box if they are already on the Committee's team roster and their Instructor box is not already checked.
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When Copying a Blog Post Do NOT Copy Comments GH2497
When copying a blog post do not copy any associated comments. Sometime we copy a blog post as the starting point for a new blog post. One example is our "10 Essential Questions" blog.
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Allow Site Admins to Delete Comments GH2498
Allow Site Admins (i.e. Staff group) to delete comments on content items. So far we mostly have comments on blogs. This is needed for improved comment moderation.
1 votePresumably fixed with the Plone 5 update launched in May 2020.
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Improve Course Application Process GH2951
Improve the online forms so that applications can be housed on our website (which is ideal), with a prefilled field linking to a particular course, that the form builder creates. When the form is submitted, the applicant is automatically added to the "applied" roster, and the same process continues from there. This has the advantage of reducing admin burden, but it will require our online forms to be much easier to build so that our leaders will make applications in plone. Probably a much bigger project.
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Catch and Handle API Tax Rate Exceptions GH2919
As a site visitor purchasing books and/or merchandise, show me an error message if the tax API fails so I know how to get my order placed. We think the best is to retry a few times and if that fails use a fallback rate from site settings.
6 votesCompleted Jun 2020 by using a fallback tax rate for Tax API errors.
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Re-sync Failed Plone-Acumen Transactions GH2921
Add a "Re-sync to Acumen button to receipt pages to enable Mountaineers staff to re-sync a transaction to Acumen. With power outages, Acumen posting, and server maintenance, this will make it easier to get any missed orders to Acumen without having to enter them manually.
6 votes
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