General Feedback
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Allow Committee Admins to see all activities posted under its purview
As the chair of the scrambling committee and the course lead for scramble course, it is surprisingly difficult to know what activities are posted on behalf of my committee.
I can use the search Activities page to look for "Scrambling" activities for "Foothills" but there are other things we do on behalf of the committee that aren't scrambles and there's no easy way I know of to see those and access them.
A concrete example: I can only easily get to the rosters for the field trips I personally am on the roster for. If I have a leader leading…
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedWe have the ability to provide reports to committee on demand from our Salesforce database, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform. It has a much better and more flexible data reporting engine than our website which is a CMS (Content Management system).
We also have the ability to connect a Salesforce report to a Google sheet and share that with any of our volunteer administrators. These Google sheets may be refreshed periodically (daily, weekly, monthly) so they can be as up-to-date as needed.
If you need a one-time report or periodically updated report for your committee or branch, please send an email to our Member Services Team, info@mountaineers.org.
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Improve Route/Place Summary (aka Search Results) View GH3574
Given that our Routes & Places have grown to support a wider set of options and variations, and that they support both land and marine activities, it would be better to display the entire summary and remove the detailed info at right column in the summary (aka search results) view of a route/place. See the attached mock-up.
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Trigger a notification for Senior Rate Eligibility when Members turn 65 ~Salesforce
Many members appreciate the convenience of the auto renewal feature for membership dues but for members who begin their enrollment at the Adult rate and turn 65 before card expiry, this may result in several years of paying at a higher rate than necessary. Including a notification on their 65th birthday, similar to the one sent out when members turn 18, will allow these members to make a fully informed decision about their options.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Apr 2022.
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My Activities...More speed, please GH3433
It is taking such a long time now to post and edit activities, load pages, etc. I spend a lot of time waiting after pushing "Save" and "Edit" buttons. Sometimes, the system times out. Other times, it's not clear if pushing the Save and Edit buttons even worked. It is 10-15 seconds here and there, but it adds up when one is doing a lot of editing, posting, roster clean up, etc. Thank you.
35 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedWe just made several changes aimed at improving website speed, particularly for loading the My Activities pages and searches like Find Activities.
For the My Activities, the page header and current/future activities should now load immediately (worst case in a few seconds). “Loading” is displayed while the past activities are being compiled. How long it takes to display them depends on how many there are, but load times should be much faster now.
To view your My Activities page, you might also need to refresh that page. With all the improvements, it’s probably also a good idea to clear your browser’s cache and then reload your My Activities page.
Please add a comment here if you’re having any issues or if the response time is still very slow. And please include the details: (1) a link to the page and (2a) how long it took to load that page (use…
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Limit adding more than 1 duplicate profile and limiting duplicates overall GH3636
Member services has seen a significant increase in the overall number of duplicates in the past 6-12 months. This has meant there have been a significant increase in login troubles for members, an increase in login-related inquiries. Member services has also been unable to keep up with the constantly growing number of duplicate accounts. Since December 2020, we have seen approximately 3000 duplicate pairs emerge - that's approximately 1000 pairs or 500 duplicated accounts per month.
We believe there are a few things that could be done to reduce the number of duplicates overall.
1. Prevent/block folks from adding more…9 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Mar 2022. We added the same duplicate warning for anyone who is checking out as a guest or donating as a guest that we have for joining. If there are items in the person's shopping cart or if they have made selection on the donation form, those selections will be transferred if they log into their account.
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Clarify language for profile management when adding family member GH3554
We've received a number of calls lately from folks who have a family membership. They go to add an adult family member, but get stuck when they are required to select whether 'I will manage the account for the youth' or 'the youth will manage their own profile, but I will sign their waiver and manage their account.' It is confusing that they have to choose one of these options when they are not adding a youth family member to their account.
I think changing the language to something like these two options would suffice to reduce confusion:
-This is…6 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Nov 2021.
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Magnuson South Wall Climbing Reservations
This page has confused me a few times. The Seattle Park Department does not manage reservations. It would be nice to have updated information about the south wall here.
Open public use?
Any reservation system?
Bolted?
Check for exclusive reservations, where?https://www.mountaineers.org/locations-lodges/seattle-program-center/events/magnuson-reservation
Thanks!
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Searchable committee minutes
We hold meetings, take minutes, and archive them. The ability to search past minutes will be very useful. In fact, I think that searching for when the committee discussed some topic - and what was decided - will be the most common way that I reference our meeting minutes.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThe text files in all PDF files on our website are indexed and we can add a search portlet to any area of our website. If you have a committee or folder or anywhere else on our website within where this would be beneficial, please send an email to info@mountaineers.org.
Here are two examples of the search portlet in use:
Blog: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog
The Mountaineer Annuals: https://www.mountaineers.org/about/history/the-mountaineer-annuals
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Filters at top of site search results do not work as expected GH3660
Enter text in site search bar in the header and hit enter. Results are shown with four buttons at top (Find Books, Find Events, Find Courses, Find Activities). Hit "Find Books" and the results are refreshed and show me things not related to what I searched for (not sticky to the search term I entered). Expected result is the search term result list is filtered to just books. See screenshots.
2 votesImprovements were made for Books search as part of website launch 4.5 in February. 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 MountainQueers to Search
Add MountainQueers as affinity group to green search bar, similar to how we have "Singles", "Families", etc. If possible make this an easier area to update for the future as we look to expand our affinity groups.
3 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Nov 2022. We update the field's title, help text, and list of choices on the edit form.
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Allow Participants to be Bulk Assigned Volunteer Hours GH3364
Our requirement for the Stewardship Credit badge is 8 hours of stewardship-related work which can be obtained many ways. We have many stewardship activities, but some of them only require 2-4 hours of work. To make this easier to track, we'd like to be able to bulk assign volunteer hours to participants in these cases
4 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThis is complete. Look for the "Check this box to assign volunteer hours to participants too" checkbox when closing an activity.
We're working on how to integrate this this the Stewardship badge soon (seehttps://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/41870725-assign-the-stewardship-credit-badge-based-on-stewa).
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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) respondedCompleted Aug 2021.
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Route/Place Missing Photo Finder
Develop a way to find Routes & Places that are missing a photo so that anyone may find a route/place where we need a photo to make our website more content rich.
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Registration Portlet Checkbox Update for Adult Courses GH2751
For an adult registering for an adult course (i.e. one that's NOT a Youth Program), display this text
The leader of this course has explicitly given me permission to register and I understand I may be permanently deleted from the roster if I sign up without that permission. I further verify that I have the skill requirements necessary to safely participate. {Request Leader's Permission}
if no application form URL is specified and the person registering is not a youth.For a youth registering for an adult course (i.e. one that's NOT a Youth Program"), display a checkbox with this text …
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Feb 2023.
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First Nation Land Acknowledgment
I recommend placing a First Nation Land Acknowledgment statement on the bottom of The Mountaineers webpages. As an organization, we should recognize the ancestors and current stewards of the lands we live, work, and recreate on. A great example of this is already on the Braided River website/webpages. https://www.braidedriver.org.
3 votesCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Sep 2022. Add page in our About menu and have a blog post series planned.
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Make Date/Time Calendar widget a consistent format GH3662
Across the site I have discovered that the date/time calendar widget is not in the same format (some have Saturday/Sunday at the beginning/end of the week; others have Sat/Sun at the end of the week). In general this is fine, but when you're adding LOTS of activities for entire program year it's significantly more time consuming because you have to pay closer attention to which day you are clicking. And, there's a higher likelihood of choosing the wrong date because visually it is in a different location on each calendar widget. It would be preferred if all calendar widgets had…
7 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 Filters, Instructor Opt In/Out, and Badges to Committee Rosters
(1) Add filters to top of the page--admins, committee members, position, leaders, instructors, badges and lookup by name.
(2) Add an instructor opt in/out checkbox (see http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/34126369-volunteer-instructor-recruitment-request-opt-in).
(3) Add four badge columns to the download so you can see course badges, skill badges, leader badges and instructor badges. And maybe a fifth column that shows all other badges.
Notes/observations:
Within Committee rosters, currently you can "Sort" members by group, but not "Filter" them. The "Sort" tool is not very helpful, as many members have multiple roles (Leader, Instructor, Committee member, etc). When I click on "Groups" to sort my…
22 votesAs part of our recent upgrade, 4.5, we added the ability to sort rosters, added additional roster columns, and have the ability to download rosters. https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/tech-update-4-5-bulk-roster-updates-practice-sessions-site-search-and-more
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Alphabetical sort for rosters has disappeared
Before the May plone update committee, course and activity rosters could be sorted by name which was very helpful when comparing rosters and trying to find peoples names to manage rosters. Right now when you have a roster for over 12 people it becomes more difficult to manage rosters. Hopefully since we used to have this functionality it can be fixed soon.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted May 2020.
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Add "Online Classroom" and "Hybrid" as filter options for courses.
In this time of Covid19, make it easier for users to sort/filter by distance learning options.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedThanks for this idea. You can already find all of our online and hybrid courses by searching for “virtual” on our https://www.mountaineers.org/courses/courses-clinics-seminars#c9=&b_start=0. This was not obvious, and we’ve updated the header text on this page to let folks know it’s possible.
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Add our COVID Code of Conduct to website GH 3445/3446/3447/3450/3455
Add text acknowledging our COVID Code of Conduct, including a link to the reference page(s), to the event/activity creation page and the registration pop-up. Also add a note about the Code of Conduct to the top of all event and activity listings.
Add donation requests to free activities and events.
Better emphasize donation request in checkout process.
Add "Include credit card fees" for donations.
1 voteCompleted · AdminJeff Bowman (Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers) respondedCompleted Jun/Jul 2020.
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