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  1. Always list field trip locations in Course Activities GH1126

    For course activities, include the location even when there is only ONE location.

    Example: (1st FT listing is great, 2nd FT listings is poor)

    Crag Course FT 1
    Tieton River Sat, May 2
    Vantage Sun, May 2

    Crag Course FT 2, Sat, May23 - Sun May24
    (NO LOCATION LISTED. REQUEST LOCATION ALSO BE LISTED)

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  2. On line user account changes

    Hello,
    My credit card changed. I use it for automatic renewal payments. Thee is no clear way for me to update my credit card info via the web site login. Pleae let me know how I can update my credit card info on line.
    Thank You, Gary Zink

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    0 comments  ·  Members  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Hi Gary,
    To update your credit card for autorenewal payments you’ll want to log in and go to My Profile and click the Recurring Payments tab on the left hand side.

    Tess

  3. Roster field showing members Branch

    Many trips and outings are joined by members from all Branches. Once a trip is created, and the time comes for communicating final information, a field showing the participant's Branch world be most helpful to assist with arranging carpooling.

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    0 comments  ·  Rosters  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    When we were chatting with many of our leaders and members during the creation of the current carpool system there was a strong consensus that people have the flexibility to share more detailed information about where they are coming from rather than grouping by Branch. We also were not able to share city with the group because of member privacy.

    What we came up with instead is the carpool preference field which has 2 parts. One that allows you to pick Drive, Ride, Drive or Ride, Drive- Full Car, Drive- Have Space.

    And then part two where you can say. I’m coming from Ravenna and prefer to meet at 65th St Park and Ride.

    Anyone signed up for the same trip can then see this detailed information when they go to the roster and click Email Roster.

    Leaders are able to see which city people are coming from and occasionally…

  4. Change "downgrade" language

    I suggest changing your language on membership "downgrades". Rather than say "downgrade", which has negative connotations, why not say "You have chosen to change your membership type". Using the word downgrade makes it sound like the membership type has fewer benefits or less value than another type.

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    Completed  ·  1 comment  ·  Members  ·  Admin →
  5. Make land manager title a type-ahead field

    Make the Land Manager field a type ahead field in Routes/places so the proper information can be entered the first time during creation.

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    0 comments  ·  Volunteers  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    We improved all of type ahead field, so they are working much better now.

    You can also add to type ahead field by typing the entire name of the new item and clicking on it.

  6. Have the route/place default view as if the "map" tab had been clicked

    When pulling up a route/place, there isn't much showing until you click on the "map" blue tab. Why not have that as default?

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    1 comment  ·  Activities  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    We set this so the default tab for leaders is “Activities” and for everyone else it it “Map.”

  7. Roster screen: Student status and sorting

    On the roster screens for activities and courses display names in last name, firstname MI format (also when searching to add people). Put a set of checkboxes on the main roster screens to let leaders update status without needing to drill down to the edit screen for eaxch student.

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    0 comments  ·  Rosters  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    On course rosters you can now change the position and student expiration date for multiple participants.

  8. Events calendar: Display pending events to admins

    calendar: Allow admins to see events that are pending. State seems to only show published events. It is very difficult to find an event once it has been submitted for review.

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  9. Feedback items should have id numbers

    When a feedback item or idea has been submitted display its id number for reference

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    1 comment  ·  Volunteers  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    I just did some investigating and it doesn’t look like there is a way to see those for easy reference but they are listed in the url if you click on the item. ie this idea is in the forum 273688 and has a unique reference number 6803077

  10. Add Review button for Editing

    This is the only web-edit tool I can think of that doesn't have a REVIEW
    option. Unless I'm missing something, I can only SAVE or CANCEL from EDIT
    mode. The requires many edits - and the system has been sluggish this afternoon.
    Please add "REVIEW" to the wish list. :-)

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    0 comments  ·  Volunteers  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Greg,
    The web system we chose for mountaineers.org is a modern content management system which uses the different statuses of private, pending review and published. The private setting is similar to a review button where you can review what you just made but it isn’t available as published material to the public.

    Sites can be sluggish or fast for a wide variety of reasons but please let us know if there is a specific action you are regularly doing on the website that is consistently taking a long time.

    You can learn more about creating blog posts here: https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/leader-resources/branch-committee-how-tos#blog

    and managing other content here: https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/leader-resources/branch-committee-how-tos#edit101

  11. Increase search functionality for routes-places

    If it is necessary for us to avoid posting multiple routes-places and activities to the same trail, it would be very helpful to have the ability for users to enter a flexible set of 'tags' with the range of place names along the planned route that can be searched for to find other routes-places or activities going to the same place but named something different.

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    3 comments  ·  Search  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    Lots of great updates have been made to routes/places which allow greater flexibility have been made.
    Read more here
    http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/6756014-allow-us-to-list-multiple-routes-places-for-differ

    We are also working with leaders to make sure that everyone understands that search uses the titles and summary statements so making sure that any alternative names for a route/place are in the summary.

    And of course if you see a route/place that needs to have a name changed or added just email info@mountaineers.org

  12. Group instructors/leaders separately on course rosters

    Group leaders and instructors separately from course participants in course rosters

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    Completed  ·  0 comments  ·  Rosters  ·  Admin →
  13. Merge Duplicate Member Records

    Member Services needs to be able to merge duplicate member records.

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  14. New Email Management system needed

    We need a better email management system so our members can choose which emails they want from us.

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    Completed  ·  Garrett Arnold responded

    In November we started using Exact Target to manage our newsletters and other organizational wide emails.

  15. Tacoma Program Center Calendar

    We need a program center calendar for Tacoma the way Seattle does.

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  16. Apply member discount to course fee if membership is in shopping cart

    It's giving me the non-member price for the course even though I have a membership in my shopping cart.

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  17. Improve the ability to act as family member for activity registration

    It doesn't seem to be working to masquerade as a family member from the My Profile drop down menu.

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  18. Improve Incident Reporting GH824

    Incident reporting appears as just an embedded email link in the trip report
    when a leader closes an activity. Its output are the emails that appear
    from those trip leaders sending the email. That makes it harder for the
    Safety Officer to identify and group them in mail. Basic metadata like
    which branch this pertains to is not appended in the body. That makes it
    hard to determine who is accountable for follow up. It would be really nice
    if we could re-institute a form that writes to the DB and generates an email
    FROM a single incident reporting address…

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  19. Org-wide Award Badges

    We'd like to explore options for giving committee members the ability to self-administer org-wide award badges. Currently the only volunteers who directly manage badge rosters are branch admins for their award badges. That said, we have some award badges that are org-wide and we'll have to think about how we might allow a group of volunteers to manage that.

    Example is the Climb Leader Emeritus badge: https://www.mountaineers.org/membership/badges/leader-badges/climb-leader-emeritus

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  20. Feedback Load Speed Issues for Committee Admins GH3610

    When the committee admins use the "View Committee Feedback” button, but when they click it, it is often slow to respond or returns a timeout error.

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    0 comments  ·  Feedback Surveys  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Jeff Bowman responded

    Completed Nov 2021.


    The biggest issue here was the amount of feedback to aggregate. We defaulted to “Lifetime” which is all the data. Here is what we fixed and how we recommend using committee/leader feedback:


    • Set the default to the “Last 12 Months” filter so it loads albeit a little slowly.
    • Moved the "Lifetime" filter to the bottom. Be sure to only use it in combination with either a leader filter or a course template filter. Those are typically      small enough data sets to not cause a timeout.
    • Replaced the date filter widgets with the more modern version, and one that actually works.


    It’s lot of work to improve the load time for “Lifetime” and we need to upgrade the forms we use for feedback, so we’ll tackle this later with the upgrade.

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