General Feedback
This forum is for you to share ideas and exchange feedback with Mountaineers members, guests, volunteers, and leadership. You may vote for or comment on any idea and will be notified of its status changes. Your feedback helps us prioritize projects and improvements for our organization.
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My Calendar SD411
Add a "My Calendar" page where I can see all of my activities on a calendar, or subscribe to an iCal feed of my activities.
Update April 2018
We are "cancelling" this for lack of a better status, because each of the items below is its own idea, and some are complete. Please visit the individual items to vote for or subscribe to them. Thanks!Update April 26 2016
Thanks to everyone who took the leader survey. The calendar requests with the most votes are below.The ability to filter by weekday or weekend which we are tracking here: http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/7910340-weekend-activities-filter
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35 votesUpdate April 2018
We are “cancelling” this for lack of a better status, because each of the items below is its own idea, and some are complete. Please visit the individual items to vote for or subscribe to them. Thanks!Update April 26 2016
Thanks to everyone who took the leader survey. The calendar requests with the most votes are below.1. The ability to filter by weekday or weekend which we are tracking here: http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/7910340-weekend-activities-filter
2. Ability to receive a calendar reminder when registration is opening for an activity. This is part of the Alerts & Notification idea, https://mountaineers.uservoice.com/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/7457242-add-bucket-tick-wish-list-and-email-notifications
3. Ability to sync outside calendar (Outlook, Google) with your Mountaineers Activities/Events which is part of the original idea above. COMPLETE—ALL calendar views on our website come with a iCal download, so for anything with a calendar view, you can download the relevant calendars and view them overplayed…
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Add Message Board/Forum Capability
Would be great to have a space where leaders could put up an activity idea and find out if other leaders might be interested in joining up for key swaps, car camps, etc. Leaders could ask for anyone's recent experience with a particular trail or trailhead. On the same space, members could put up a trip that they'd like to do and see if they can interest a leader in doing it; barring that, to find other members who might like to do it privately.
Originally titled: Message board for leaders and members wanting to coordinate an activity
Other uses…
27 votesThis idea is closing as not complete. It is not within the organization's strategy or budget at the moment to support the moderation of a third-party solution or build a custom solution into our website. Since this idea launched, branches and committees have build forums to support their communities directly instead. If this becomes an organizational priority, this idea will re-open.
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Publicly accessible API
As a member of the Mountaineers, I'd love to give back in a way that I have particular expertise.
It would be great of the website had a public facing REST API for exposing data such as events and classes.
At least in a read capacity. My particular goal would be to write an Android (and possibly iOS) app to browse the events and what not.
It would be great to have easy native access to my up coming events, and be able to launch navigation to the event right from the app.
I have extensive experience writing and working…
18 votesChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Three day head start for basic students who don't yet have 3 climbs
Good afternoon Jeff,
Jim Nelson asked that I get in contact with you about a website feature we would like to explore in support of the Basic Climbing Course. We would like for the website to be able to flag Basic Course students who have not yet completed three climbs and give them a three-day head start in signing up for Basic climbs. As soon as a student has three successful climbs, the flag comes off and they have the same priority in signing up for climbs as prior-year Basic course graduates.
This change addresses two long-simmering concerns:
- It gives…
15 votesChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Lodge-specific Sign-in Sheets (aka Print Rosters) SD648/649/650
For a two-night stay, what we have may be enough, but for longer stays a matrix-style sign-in sheet might be better. Or it may be better if we have a different printable sign-in sheet for each lodge.
13 votesThis idea is being marked as closed as it has not been prioritized and if prioritized, would need to be reviewed through a separate process versus what is proposed here given how things may have changed in the last 8+ years since submitting.
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make maximum wind, waves, and current required fields for Sea Kayaking activities
Sea Kayaking activities have fields for maximum wind, waves, and current. Currently these are optional. Because they are optional, some leaders do not fill them in. This omits critical information about how difficult a trip may be. Leaders should think about and enter specific values for each these. Making them required will enforce good practice.
At the 2025 Sea Kayak Summit, we voted to make these fields required, if it was technically possible. This is the request to do so.
10 votesThis idea is closing as not complete. The specific solution provided is not possible and the workaround options are not sufficient per the committee that requested it.
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Leader's Permission Required SHOULD MEAN LEADER'S PERMISSION REQUIRED
It's hard enough dealing with the instructors and other participants that can not or will not read and understand the posting of an activity, course, field trip, ANYTHING let alone dealing with someone that registers without getting permission to do so. What is the point of having a check box or radio button if there is no functionality behind it?
9 votesHello All -
I wanted to send out a notice addressing the leader frustration that this ticket highlights and share our plan to address this. I am marking this ticket as closed because even though we have plans that are shared below to address this - it will not functionally prevent someone from signing up and still does require the user to follow instructions. This is not something we would build now or in the near future which is why I am closing this ticket. My hope is that the steps we take below improve the leader (and participant) experience and reduce the confusion that drives participant mistakes.
- Improve Leadership Permission Experience (Done)
- We have made changes the the way that Leadership Permission is presented on activities (see attached image). It now contains resources, a large button, and two checkboxes. The goal is for this to help participants understand Leadership…
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Allow Chaperone Registration for Youth Activities
For youth activates that are not part of a youth program, enable the ability for leaders to set a chaperone capacity and for chaperones to register.
9 votesThis was discussed internally and no longer a need.
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Add a Cancellation Closing Date to Lodge Stays
Lodges need a minimum number of guests to open and must decide by Thursdays at noon whether to open for the weekend. After this point, the decision is made and to open and funds for food has been committed. But we can often handle more reservations, see we need to be able to keep reservations open longer, but prevent cancellations and refunds from being processed after the go/no go decision point.
9 votesThis idea is being marked as closed as it has not been prioritized and if prioritized, would need to be reviewed through a separate process versus what is proposed here given how things may have changed in the last 8+ years since submitting.
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Improve Lodge Stay Cancellation Process - Part 2
As a volunteer admin on an outdoor center committee, allow me to cancel one or more lodge stays for our lodge, so that members and guests will know that it has been canceled (on the website), that those who registered will be notified of the cancellation, and so that staff can issue refunds to those who registered and paid.
The automation for this involve adding a button or link to lodges stays (or lodge stay rosters) so that when canceled (and confirmed with a popup yes/no-style check) that the state of the lodge stay(s) is/are set to "canceled" and all…
9 votesThis idea is being marked as closed as it has not been prioritized and if prioritized, would need to be reviewed through a separate process versus what is proposed here given how things may have changed in the last 8+ years since submitting.
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Use "Age Group" Radio Buttons Instead of "Age" for Lodge Reservations SD637
Is it better to use radio buttons for the age groups [i.e. one for Adults (age 14+) and another for Youth (age 13-)] when reserving a lodge stay than asking for actual age? What are the pros and cons?
Using radio buttons is better when one person is making a lodge reservation for another and does not know their age. I suspect with will happen a lot, especially for lodge admins who add hosts and other volunteers, as well as people who might bring a friend.
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Add a donation thermometer to our donation pages to track progress SD514
Make it so our individual youth, conservation and peer to peer campaigns have front pages with a thermometer widgit that shows the campaigns progress.
9 votesThis is being closed for now. We can reopen if we ever pursue a donation platform that would provide an embedded thermometer-type graphic we could display.
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Beef up our route-place database to include all of the routes-places in the '100-best' books
The system has such capacity for displaying our routes and places in an attractive and appealing way, with enough detail to know where the trailhead is and whether or not it covers the route or place that one wants to take. It seems a huge missed opportunity to let routes-places be submitted without even the most basic of descriptions other than the pure length and elevation gain, which doesn't tell us much. Yet I know that Member Services is deluged with route place requests that are so urgent that you hesitate to push back. I wonder if we might be…
8 votesHello All - Thank you for your interest in this idea! I think everyone would agree that there are opportunities to enhance and build out our routes and places further. While we do the best we can at staff to handle the updates submitted by members to our current routes, we are not in a position to staff this process to its fullest. If improvements to the process are going to be made, it will have to come through passionate volunteers. If a group does decide to organize around routes places, we will see where and how staff can support as we do for other committees/groups.
As it relates to the 100 best hikes, I do believe that we have all 100 in our routes/places database. If you believe a few are missing, please share that information with info@mountaineers.org as that is something we would be happy to prioritize as…
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Access to Badge Rosters
Provide access to badge rosters with means for admins to maintain them and correct inaccuracies. I know of no defensible reason to hide this information, especially from committees that need it to do their jobs.
8 votesChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Link event tickets to a salesforce revenue campaign as they are purchased
The fundraising team would love it if there was a way to link event ticket purchases to a specific campaign as they came in so we can track revenue and ensure it is assigned to a specific fundraising effort and communicate with accounting if it needs to be assigned to a specific funding need. This would be similar to how we set up donation pages to assign to a specific campaign.
7 votesThis idea is closing as it is no longer required.
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Fix incident report excel export bug
The incident report exports narratives in HTML. Change to plain text format. Example:
<p>At 1:10 pm 1.5 miles from the trail head on the Spray Park Trail (heading back to Mowich Lake), participant tripped on a root and ended up bumping her brow bone on another root. Student did not present with any signs of head trauma, the bump site swelled to approximately 2.5 cm in diameter and no bleeding was noted. Patient reported minor discomfort, no current medications. Applied a cold compress with bandana soaked with cold creek water and continued to hike out. Patient still retained normal mentation…
7 votesChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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Improve Committee-aggregated Feedback Pages
(1) Add a "More Info" or make it so that clicking on the "comment" in feedback takes the user to the "All" feedback page for the activity, course, event, or lodge stay from which that feedback originated.
(2) Add a "Download All | Download Selected" button to the bottom of the page that downloads a spreadsheet file with one sheet/tab for each feedback survey (e.g. Course Feedback, Field Trip, Lecture, Seminar, and Clinic Feedback, Trip Feedback, etc.). Each sheet will have meta data (e.g. title, dates) from the activity, course, event or lodge stay and then the feedback responses in…
7 votesThis idea is being marked as closed as it has not been prioritized and if prioritized, would need to be reviewed through a separate process versus what is proposed here given how things may have changed in the last 8+ years since submitting.
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Course activity review tool for courses with 2-3 activities SD664
Include some bulk review and update tools for courses where we only 2-3 required activities. For courses like WFA, Navigation or Basic Snowshoeing with just a couple required field trips/lectures make a roster preview and download that allows you see that a student is registered for all required activities and then their participant result and probably participant notes. This is probably exception report for a course roster compared to 1-3 activity template roster (on screen and download).
For more involved courses we are hoping to build a mega download of all activities for students involved in that course. See listing…
7 votesThis idea is closing as we are moving forward with creating more course management tools for tracking outside of the website. Given the variety of requirements and corequisites that still exists in even small courses, we are going to apply the same solution to both instead of splitting the groups into two separate "types" of courses. To learn more about our progress towards enhanced course management tools, see this blog about the pilot program for a new tool here!
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Add a new Activity category called "Other".
This could be a catch-all spot for new ideas that don't yet fit an established category. A good example is the Olympia Branch Gear Swap. It is desirable to run it as an Activity because: 1. The intent is to have sellers register and pay for tables. and 2. Folks have now been trained/accustomed to searching activities for things to do. Given the creative, entrepreneurial nature of members and branches, new ideas do come along and need an outlet, rather than be discouraged just because they are a square peg. Over time, examples that had persistence would become candidates for…
7 votesChanging from DECLINED to CLOSED to follow the improved and streamlined feedback status options: https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/new-technology-experience-manager-feedback-management-improvements
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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.
6 votesHello All -
I wanted to provide an update and context as to why this idea is closing. First, this solution would only work for some application processes. There are situations where applications are a common application is used across courses/branches which would make embedding the form and creating an 'applied' status very complicated.
Second, we are not currently looking to embed more forms into our website given its current state. The reporting and functionality around these forms is limited and it would take significant development to offer the functionality that volunteers have today within our third party survey tool Alchemer.
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