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1. Notify course participants when new field trip/lecture within the course is posted

   Once a course is live, leaders can add new field trips and lectures to the course offering. However, participants are often unaware of these additions unless course or activity leaders notify them manually through email or other channels. The Youth Team is currently exploring solutions to automatically notify course students when new activities are added. This system could eventually be expanded to adult courses as well, reducing the administrative burden on leaders by ensuring participants are automatically informed via email.

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2. Allow markup formatting for Carpool Preferences notes

   The Carpool Preferences widget provides a "notes" section which allows for free-form content to be provided by the users. This can provide useful information for other participants such as the type of car, passes you have, expected reimbursement rates, etc. A participant may organize this information so it's easily consumed by the reader. The problem is that the formatting is only preserved when viewing the "notes" section in the edit view. When a participant tries to read it, all formatting is removed (e.g. newlines are removed) which can make it very difficult to read the content. This undoes any attempt someone made so that others would have an easier time reading these notes.

   E.g.

   The following:

   I drive an XYZ that seats up to N people.
   
   - Passes: I carry a Discover Pass and NW Forest Pass
   - Reimbursement Expectations: I appreciate being reimbursed N cents per mile driven.
   

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   I drive an XYZ that seats up to N people.- Passes: I carry a Discover Pass and NW Forest Pass- Reimbursement Expectations: I appreciate being reimbursed N cents per mile driven.
   

   The Carpool Preferences widget provides a "notes" section which allows for free-form content to be provided by the users. This can provide useful information for other participants such as the type of car, passes you have, expected reimbursement rates, etc. A participant may organize this information so it's easily consumed by the reader. The problem is that the formatting is only preserved when viewing the "notes" section in the edit view. When a participant tries to read it, all formatting is removed (e.g. newlines are removed) which can make it very difficult to read the content. This undoes any attempt… more

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3. Provide for small window of time for conflicting activities to allow member to choose between the two.

   The problem I experienced was that I was interested in a particular activity. I figured it would be a popular activity so I wanted to register as soon as the registration opened. When I tried to do that, I noticed the registration window was greyed out and I saw a message that I had a conflicting activity scheduled. I quickly went back to my list of activities and cancelled the one in conflict which had a waitlist of about 5 but I was a confirmed participant (of the two, my preference would have been for the new activity). In the short time it took to cancel the other activity, the new activity had already filled up so I could not register (could only get on waitlist). But now I had cancelled the other trip and lost my spot there. So now I have no activities for that day! Very frustrating. My idea is to allow a short window of say, one hour, that a person can have conflicting activities and they have to choose between them within that hour or the decision will be made for them. Not sure how this could be programmed in to be automated but it sure is frustrating to lose a spot. We should be able to choose between activities without risking losing out on both.

   The problem I experienced was that I was interested in a particular activity. I figured it would be a popular activity so I wanted to register as soon as the registration opened. When I tried to do that, I noticed the registration window was greyed out and I saw a message that I had a conflicting activity scheduled. I quickly went back to my list of activities and cancelled the one in conflict which had a waitlist of about 5 but I was a confirmed participant (of the two, my preference would have been for the new activity). In the… more

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   Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

4. Self populating cell meet place and time

   Create a self populating cell that when you’re posting or developing your template for the activity, There’s usually several options to launch from, and the cell could populate on the condition when you select where you were going to launch from it tells you or populates the cell with the meeting place and have an option in the cell that allows for time inputs of meet time and launch time and maybe an option for pre-launch meeting time This would eliminate. This could eliminate the current meat, place and time box completely. Leader could have the notes in there and put whatever they want in there. They don’t even have to talk about that where it is and nobody can Short cut it. You could put the Cell under the information area like where it shows wind and currents right before participants size. So it’s right at the top when you open it and you see that it’s such and such Park. That’s where it is directly below the description that the leader puts in describing where they’re going and such. I’ll consider this critical. Might be an answer to the frustration leaders are having communicating information to prospective applicants

   Create a self populating cell that when you’re posting or developing your template for the activity, There’s usually several options to launch from, and the cell could populate on the condition when you select where you were going to launch from it tells you or populates the cell with the meeting place and have an option in the cell that allows for time inputs of meet time and launch time and maybe an option for pre-launch meeting time This would eliminate. This could eliminate the current meat, place and time box completely. Leader could have the notes in there and… more

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   Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

5. Include the "audience" field in the activity search results

   Activities allow for scoping them to a specific audience/affinity group via the "audience" field. In the activity search page, the audience can be used to filter activities targeting a specific audience. The issue is that the activities that appear in the search do not specify their intended audience. The result is that the audience is only known once the activity page has been opened. It would help if the audience was included in the activity info summary that's provided in the search results so that prospective participants can more effectively identify the audience of the activity they're looking at.

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   Activities allow for scoping them to a specific audience/affinity group via the "audience" field. In the activity search page, the audience can be used to filter activities targeting a specific audience. The issue is that the activities that appear in the search do not specify their intended audience. The result is that the audience is only known once the activity page has been opened. It would help if the audience was included in the activity info summary that's provided in the search results so that prospective participants can more effectively identify the audience of the activity they're looking at.

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6. Improve Functionality for Overlapping Enrollment Badges

   Today, enrollment badges work as follows:

   • When someone is added to a course with an "enrollment" badge - they are added to that badge's roster and the expiration date is set based on that course.
   • If a student is added to a course with an enrollment badge that they already have - the badge's expiration date is updated to reflect whatever the newest course's expiration date is.
   • Once a student completes a course, the enrollment badge is removed. It does not matter what course originally created the badge and/or what the expiration date.

   It is uncommon for courses to share the same enrollment badge for students, but there are cases of this (intermediate climbing courses). Ideally the system would not remove the enrollment badge upon completion of a course if someone is still enrolled in a course that contains that enrollment badge.

   Today, enrollment badges work as follows:

   • When someone is added to a course with an "enrollment" badge - they are added to that badge's roster and the expiration date is set based on that course.
   • If a student is added to a course with an enrollment badge that they already have - the badge's expiration date is updated to reflect whatever the newest course's expiration date is.
   • Once a student completes a course, the enrollment badge is removed. It does not matter what course originally created the badge and/or what the expiration date.

   It is uncommon for courses to share… more

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   Proposed  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

   Given it only impacts a few courses, this is not a high priority. However, if this is something we can easily accomplish or can be tied to another piece of work that is prioritized, it would be great to have this changed.

7. Allow setting start and end times, not just dates

   Currently, when an activity is created, you can put either one or multiple days, but cannot select the times. This is fine for hikes, which can have the date and time listed in the notes, but for meetings at the Program Center or other course activities that have multiple activities in one day, it would be beneficial to be able to set the timing for the activity as well.

   This could possibly also solve the problem of someone being unable to join a short hike in the morning of the same day that they have a zoom meeting at 7pm if both items use start/finsih times.

   Currently, when an activity is created, you can put either one or multiple days, but cannot select the times. This is fine for hikes, which can have the date and time listed in the notes, but for meetings at the Program Center or other course activities that have multiple activities in one day, it would be beneficial to be able to set the timing for the activity as well.

   This could possibly also solve the problem of someone being unable to join a short hike in the morning of the same day that they have a zoom meeting at 7pm… more

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   Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

   This idea is moving to priority. At a minimum, we can look to see how our registration emails can be reformatted for phone/email providers to recognize the event for easy auto-saving.

8. Allow Course Leaders/Admins to Edit Participant's Registration Datetime

   Today, Leaders can edit the registration datetime for their Activities. This allows them to manage the waitlist order by changing the dates as needed. This idea is to allow the same functionality for Courses.

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   Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

   This idea is moving to priority. At a minimum, we can look to see how our registration emails can be reformatted for phone/email providers to recognize the event for easy auto-saving.

9. Alerts & Notifications for Events

   Create a notification alert option for events, similar to alerts for courses or activities.

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   Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

   This idea is moving to priority. At a minimum, we can look to see how our registration emails can be reformatted for phone/email providers to recognize the event for easy auto-saving.

10. Delayed Send for Auto Email for Activities/Events

    I like to hold off on sending emails until the 1-2 days before and the registration has been closed. These emails include things like my personal number, weather conditions, and overall serve as a reminder. Most people find accessing an email from a phone easier than accessing it from the website (and I don't want to include my phone number on postings).

    Sometimes the ideal time to send an email conflicts with other activities (ie I might be leading a conditioning hike or doing a race the night before a morning run). To get around this, I will sometimes send an email 2-3 days before, but then new people join and I don't get a chance to email them before the event.

    It would be great if I could input the email into the activity somewhere, schedule a time to send, it would auto-send on that specific date/time, then get send to any additional registrants who sign up after the originally scheduled time.

    I like to hold off on sending emails until the 1-2 days before and the registration has been closed. These emails include things like my personal number, weather conditions, and overall serve as a reminder. Most people find accessing an email from a phone easier than accessing it from the website (and I don't want to include my phone number on postings).

    Sometimes the ideal time to send an email conflicts with other activities (ie I might be leading a conditioning hike or doing a race the night before a morning run). To get around this, I will sometimes send… more

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    Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to priority. At a minimum, we can look to see how our registration emails can be reformatted for phone/email providers to recognize the event for easy auto-saving.

11. People Search

    This was spawned off from an existing thread:
    https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/37230223-integrate-fuzzy-logic-to-text-search-gh2837

    It was clear that "fuzzy search" as implemented there did not translate into a good people search experience.

    BACKGROUND

    Currently, the only way to search for members (contacts) is through the sitewide search mechanism. While we have dedicated search pages for "Find Activities", "Find Routes & Places" and "Find Courses, Clinics & Seminars", we have no such dedicated page for finding members. Your options are to either find them on some roster you have access to or to rely on the sitewide search.

    The problem is that the general sitewide search is not tuned to finding people, and when applied in this use case, it does a terrible job unless you get the member's name (first and last) EXACTLY right.

    Examples:
    "Travis Prescot" Finds ZERO hits, even though the most logical result should be "Travis Prescott"
    https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=Travis+Prescot&b_start=0&type=mtneers.contact

    "Danielle G" returns a whole lot of "Dan"s and "Daniel"s, most of which don't have a last name starting with G, and few "Danielle"s.
    https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=Danielle+G&b_start=0&type=mtneers.contact

    This can be improved by putting a wildcard after the G
    "Danielle G" still returns a bunch of "Dan"s and "Daniel"s but more "Danielle"s and at least most of the last names actually start with G! However, the average user of the website is NOT going to know how to use wildcards in search, so this is not a workable solution.
    https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=Danielle+G&b_start=0&type=mtneers.contact

    And finally, an exact search for "Danielle Graham" returns me two results, both with this name, but the top search result has no information whatsoever.
    https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=Danielle+Graham&b_start=0&type=mtneers.contact

    Bottom line, all of these non-exact search results are awful, and the exact search result could be improved.

    REQUEST

    Please add a "Find Members" search page that is tuned, optimized and tailored to finding members.

    Assume wildcards--we should never force users to put them (it's a techy trick that is not intuitive to regular users). That means if I put "Daniell" it should match "Danielle" but NOT "Dan", "Daniel" or anything else.

    In terms of the number of actual search fields, one is ideal, but only if it actually produces good results. If it doesn't then consider having multiple search fields:

    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Email
    • Username

    Right now the general search field works for email and username ONLY if they are exact (otherwise it turns up nothing) but has serious problems generating rational results with a single search for first and last name.

    Since the search is specific to people, it should have facets relevant to finding people.

    • Checkbox for "Show expired members" (should default to off)
    • Checkbox for "Show guest members" (default to on?)
    • Multicheckbox for Branch affiliation
    • Committee Affiliation ("tag" style field where you type and it autocomplets)

    This was spawned off from an existing thread:
    https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/37230223-integrate-fuzzy-logic-to-text-search-gh2837

    It was clear that "fuzzy search" as implemented there did not translate into a good people search experience.

    BACKGROUND

    Currently, the only way to search for members (contacts) is through the sitewide search mechanism. While we have dedicated search pages for "Find Activities", "Find Routes & Places" and "Find Courses, Clinics & Seminars", we have no such dedicated page for finding members. Your options are to either find them on some roster you have access to or to rely on the sitewide search.

    The problem is that the general sitewide search… more

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    In Progress  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to in progress! We are working to build out a member specific search page which will provide a place where members can 1) Search for members using a test search that uses wildcards automatically 2) Filters for membership status 3) Filters for branch. Depending on its adoption we can increase the features to include committee affiliation but that is more complicated.

12. Exportable PDF Feedback Reports

    BACKGROUND

    I have the ability to see my feedback history. As a committee admin I have the ability to see a portion of the feedback history for anyone who has led a trip for my committee. I cannot see the feedback history for someone who has led trips for some other committee.

    USE CASE

    As a Leadership Chair for various committees (current and past) I review leadership applications. Often these prospective leaders are already leaders for another branch and/or committee. As part of the feedback gathering process, it is important for me as the Leadership Chair to gather as much relevant feedback as possible.

    This includes soliciting direct feedback from references listed in the application, open comment from our committee, and a review of the prospective leader's Participation Notes. It also should include review of any feedback the leader has received over time from trip participants.

    What I have had to do in the past is email committee chairs and ask them to review the feedback and provide a qualitative assessment. What I would prefer is to simply be able to review all of the feedback directly, without bothering the committee chairs. Participant feedback is imperfect, but valuable.

    What I would like is a system where:

    1) The member can export their feedback history (filtered using existing filters) directly to a PDF they can submit to me directly

    2) I can request such a PDF export of feedback from staff

    Ultimately, regardless of the mechanism to obtain, the key component is that feedback can be exported. It would be great to export the graphs first, followed by the comments, exactly how it is on the website.

    I uploaded an example (created using Camtasia)

    BACKGROUND

    I have the ability to see my feedback history. As a committee admin I have the ability to see a portion of the feedback history for anyone who has led a trip for my committee. I cannot see the feedback history for someone who has led trips for some other committee.

    USE CASE

    As a Leadership Chair for various committees (current and past) I review leadership applications. Often these prospective leaders are already leaders for another branch and/or committee. As part of the feedback gathering process, it is important for me as the Leadership Chair to gather as much… more

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    Proposed  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to proposed. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

13. Difficulty Label Changes

    The long-form of this proposal with better formatting and screenshots is here:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vef3Nw-ulHzJdeKUhYSv95PX7FcAcigM7R2z6H5tn8g/edit?usp=sharing

    This is a copy-paste and loses formatting:

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    Problem
    All trips posted have a “Difficulty” rating and a “Leader Rating” value, but trip listings only display the Difficulty rating. Sometimes the difficulty of a trip is indicated by the combination of the difficulty field and the trip template. For example, an Intermediate Snowshoe is posted using an “Intermediate Snowshoe” template and will have a difficulty label to indicate how strenuous the trip is expected to be. Other activities, such as Cross-Country Skiing, indicate the trip difficulty solely through the difficulty label.

    There are some major problems with the website’s current approach to difficulty labels.

    There is a global list of difficulty labels for all activities
    Each place listing can have (and usually does have) a default value for difficulty. This means for places that support multiple kinds of activities, there will be multiple different labels here for each activity.
    This field auto-populates with the default for the place. Because it has a default, the trip leader is not required to look at or change this field and in the overwhelming number of cases, does not. This means that the trip will be listed with a bunch of confusing, irrelevant difficulty labels that participants find extremely hard to reason about.

    Other times, the default value is “Varies” and that gets carried through. In many many cases, using the default difficulty value is incorrect.

    Proposal
    I propose some changes that will better set our leaders up for success:
    Restrict Difficulty Values: Instead of maintaining a global list of difficulty labels, tie the list of possible difficulty values either to the trip template or the activity type. This way when the trip leader selects the field, they will only be given options relevant to the activity type.

    Activity Template
    Labels
    Day Hike
    Easy, Moderate, Strenuous, Very Strenuous
    Alpine Scramble
    Strenuous 1-5, Technical 1-5
    Winter Scramble
    Strenuous 1-5, Technical 1-5, Winter Scramble
    Cross-Country Ski
    G-XC1-4 Groomed, U-XC1-4 Ungroomed
    Basic Snowshoe
    Easy, Moderate, Strenuous, Very Strenuous
    Intermediate Snowshoe
    Easy, Moderate, Strenuous, Very Strenuous
    Backcountry Ski
    M1 Intermediate, M2 Advanced, M2G Advanced Glacier, M3 Expert, M3G Expert Glacier
    Bikepacking
    Easy, Moderate, Strenuous, Very Strenuous
    Basic Rock Climb
    Strenuous 1-5, Technical 1-5
    Basic Glacier Climb
    Strenuous 1-5, Technical 1-5
    Sea Kayak
    Sea Kayak I-VI
    Trail Running
    Easy, Moderate, Strenuous, Very Strenuous, Ultra, Advanced Ultra 1, Advanced Ultra 2

    Opt 1 - Template: Internally, this would mean that the template object would need a new field called “Difficulty Tags” (or something) that would include all of the possible difficulties. When creating a trip, the “Difficulty” field would work the same as it does today, except that the list of tags you are allowed to add is restricted to the possible difficulties from the activity template, rather than the global list it looks at today.

    Opt 2 - Activity Type: The above would require each activity template to have the difficulty field set the same. For example, all three Snowshoe activity templates would require you to go in and set the difficulty values to the same labels for each template. It might be more convenient to leverage the “Activity Type” field to get the list of possible labels. In that way, since all three snowshoe templates are already marked as “Snowshoeing” activity types, you would just need to associate “Snowshoeing” with the relevant tags to get the validation, and you would not need a template-specific list (instead you’d need a table linking activity type to the allowed tags).

    On trips, make Difficulty a required field and, in cases where there are multiple potential activities, do not attempt to set any default value. This will force leaders to put something here. An exception here would be when the place listing only has one difficulty rating (for example, a peak is only ever a scramble peak, so the default scramble rating is fine, or a sea kayak trip), but any place where there are a bunch of labels, they should probably be removed as the Difficulty default and moved into the route description, like this example from the website: Pinnacle, Plummer, Denman, Lane & The Castle — The Mountaineers

    This also makes sense given that many places have a bunch of routes that you select from the “Alternate Names” dropdown, and the odds that the default difficulty is correct for all of those routes is… low.

    An alternative you could consider would be to allow the difficulty field to remain for multi-activity types, but to prune the list when the template is used to erase any labels that don’t match the activity template or activity type.

    For example, consider Amabilis Mountain, which has labels for backcountry skiing, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing.

    Difficulty: M1 Intremediate Ski, Strenuous, G-XC 4 Advanced Groomed, U-XC 3 Intermediate Ungroomed
    Depending on the template I use to post this, by cross referencing this field allowed value, I will get a different result, because any label that’s not in the allow list for the activity type would be removed.

    Snowshoe
    Strenuous
    Backcountry Ski
    M1 Intremediate Ski
    Cross-Country Ski
    U-XC 3 Intermediate Ungroomed, G-XC 4 Advanced Groomed

    While it’s still not perfect–cross-country ski still ends up with two default labels–it’s going to be more accurate overall than what someone would see today, which is just all four labels.

    While there is a link to “Activity Overviews” for this field, it would be nice if the template could have a custom link to the activity-specific page. For example, the Alpine Scramble and Winter Scramble templates would link to (Scrambling — The Mountaineers).

    Summary
    To require the fewest changes for maintainers, my recommendation would be:
    Associate the “Activity-Type” label with a list of “Allowed Difficulty” tags and make the dropdown for the “Difficulty” field look at the allowed tags. If there are multiple activity types, then union the list of allowed tags.
    Make “Difficulty” a required field (i.e. cannot be blank).
    Leave all default values alone. When a trip is posted from a template, validate the default values against the allowed difficulty tags and remove any that aren’t allowed. If the activity type is changed, re-validate and update the Difficulty field (for example, if I change Amabilis from a snowshoe to backcountry ski, the difficulty field should auto-update from Strenuous to M1 Intremediate Ski by virtue of the validation).
    Add the activity-specific link to the trip template (this is nice-to-have, but absolute lowest priority).

    The long-form of this proposal with better formatting and screenshots is here:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vef3Nw-ulHzJdeKUhYSv95PX7FcAcigM7R2z6H5tn8g/edit?usp=sharing

    This is a copy-paste and loses formatting:

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    Problem
    All trips posted have a “Difficulty” rating and a “Leader Rating” value, but trip listings only display the Difficulty rating. Sometimes the difficulty of a trip is indicated by the combination of the difficulty field and the trip template. For example, an Intermediate Snowshoe is posted using an “Intermediate Snowshoe” template and will have a difficulty label to indicate how strenuous the trip is expected to be. Other activities, such as Cross-Country Skiing, indicate the trip difficulty solely… more

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14. demographics updates

    I noticed that my demographic in my member profile had the wrong age group (unfortunately I continue to age). I only noticed it because I've been doing website testing today. Maybe there can be a prompt (or even a forcing function) for members to review their entire profile including preferences and demographics annually, as I'm sure other things change for members as well (marital status, activity interests, student status, etc). Maybe a button to go along with the waiver that forces them to scroll through their profile and select "I have reviewed and updated my profile" or something like that.

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    Proposed  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to proposed. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

15. Add a menu option for "My Committees"

    Currently users can get to their committee pages by going to "My Profile" and clicking on the appropriate link. This works fine for experienced website users. The logical place to look for your committees is through the "My Branch" page, but this is tedious and requires scrolling through all the committees and subgroups in the branch. Please add a menu option for "My Committees" that will take all users directly to a list of their committees (or even to the section of their profile with the links).

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    Proposed  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to proposed. This request is technically possible and will be considered for prioritization if 1) it gains additional following or 2) can easily be added to a prioritized profile change. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

16. Provide a way to tell if leader has unread feedback

    Currently, there is no indication if a participant has submitted feedback after a leader has viewed the feedback. Personally, I check for feedback a few days after the activity, and if someone adds feedback after that I probably won’t ever see it.

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    Proposed  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to proposed. This request is technically possible and will be considered for prioritization if 1) it gains additional following or 2) can easily be added to a prioritized roster change request. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

17. Limit use of low contrast fonts

    I have a big, but I think important ask. My vision is not crisp, in fact worse than that. In order to read text, I require fairly high contrast. When light grey font is used, it is a blur, even when enlarged, to me and others with less than acute, young eyes. The Mountaineers Templates use quite a lot of light grey font and it is not editable. When doing web design for the Mountaineers, could you please consider making it a point to use black font on light backgrounds or white on dark backgrounds so that we all can read it without such a struggle?

    I have a big, but I think important ask. My vision is not crisp, in fact worse than that. In order to read text, I require fairly high contrast. When light grey font is used, it is a blur, even when enlarged, to me and others with less than acute, young eyes. The Mountaineers Templates use quite a lot of light grey font and it is not editable. When doing web design for the Mountaineers, could you please consider making it a point to use black font on light backgrounds or white on dark backgrounds so that we all can… more

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    This idea is transitioning to priority and will be considered as part of a larger project to make changes to fonts and colors to improve the user experience for everyone.

18. Add profile link to roster

    There is a companion issue that made names clickable in the roster on the website: https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/8764993-make-names-on-roster-open-their-profile-so-you-can

    Here, I would like a column added to the CSV roster export with the link to someone's profile. There's currently a column for whether the profile is private or not, but no column with the actual profile link.

    This would serve the same purpose as the clickable name. In Excel, it will detect that these are links and make them clickable. That makes it easier for me to navigate to someone's profile.

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    This idea is moving to proposed. This request is technically possible and will be considered for prioritization if 1) it gains additional following or 2) can easily be added to a prioritized roster change request. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

19. Add the option to have hosts notified by e-mail when people register for a lodge stay

    I would like the ability for hosts to elect to receive E-mails when a new person registers or cancels a lodge stay.

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    This idea is moving to proposed. This request is technically possible and will be considered for prioritization if 1) it gains additional following or 2) can easily be added to a prioritized roster change request. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements

20. Installment Payment System for Donations

    While we have monthly donations, we would like to request a payment installments specifically for donations that would have a start and end date that can be broken out by month or by quarter or any schedule identified by the donor. It may be similar to the proposal put forward for courses, however, will be different because this payment schedule would specific for an individual rather than a product.

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    Priority  ·  AdminDevin Lampe (Technical Experience Manager, The Mountaineers) responded

    This idea is moving to priority. To learn more about the updated feedback status options and process, visit this blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements