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  1. Create Volunteering "interests and skills" checklists SD187/188/189/283/317

    One of the quickest ways to match organization needs with membership talent is to identify what skills are needed and what skills potential volunteers are willing to offer. When such postings are put on the website on the "Get Involved as a Volunteer" webpage (https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/get-involved-as-a-volunteer), we have YET not to have someone come forward and offer to help out. If your profile page allowed you to report your interests and skills, The Mountaineers could more specifically target recruitment efforts to people who are most likely to like the work being offered. It's a fundamental part of ensuring that…

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

    Check out the My Volunteer Profile tab from your account and My Profile link.

  2. Preview Activity before saving

    There should be a way to preview an activity before submitting it. Currently one saves and then edits (submitted by Henry Romer during Focus Groups).

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

    Leaders can change their trip to Private state which is a “review” state. When an activity is private it will still show up in a leader’s My Activities area but not in the search area for the general public.

    We chose to make activities automatically published because that is what most leaders requested, especially because you can specify open and close registration dates. And you can always go in and edit your activity.

  3. Auto Save functionality needed for filling out online forms like Routes/places

    Can we create an auto-save for some of the online forms so users can save their work on route-place and activity creation forms and come back to it later if they haven't filled all the required fields?

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

    All required fields expect for the title and summary have default values so leaders only have to fill in a couple fields before saving.

    Pro ti! If you save your route/place and you navigate away from the page you can find what you created by searching using the magnify glass search field in the top right hand corner

  4. 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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    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.

  5. Branches and Committees self-maintain content on their pages

    Allow Branches and Committees to self-maintain their pages. Committees can now maintain a brief description, but it is limited to text and cannot contain any formatting, images, links, or other useful stuff. There is currently a fairly long description for each Branch, but it is too static and, as far as I can tell, maintained by the PC. With more control of Branch page(s) on the club website, the need for Branches to have the separate websites is minimized.

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

    Committee pages have a new look! Go check them out and start adding content to the rich text description and summary. You can also create a folder and then create a whole new webpage with extra content that you can link to . Check out Tacoma Sea Kayaking, Olympia Hiking, Everett Scrambling, Seattle climbing as examples where some content has been added. Committee admins should be able to edit and committee members can now delete and archive content. Check out the Tech 2.3 Blog on the homepage for more web updates. Contact member services for additional questions about updating your committee pages. Additionally there are new links on the Getting Started pages which link back to branch communities and from the Learn menu to divert people to get plugged into their branches.

  6. 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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  7. 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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    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

  8. Volunteers need to be able to delete and archive content SD227/280

    Should be able to remove course materials from Manage Course Materials area or get rid of course templates no longer being used or files that are not up to date.

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

    Volunteer committee administrator may now clone (copy & paste) , delete and retire content in their committee folders in addition to moving (cut & paste) content.

  9. 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

  10. Folder view of Documents Sort Order

    When I open a list of documents, it seems to be in some random order and difficult to find certain documents when the list gets long. At a minimum, default document lists to alpha order. Possibly, sort folders to the top, but keep those in alpha order, too. A way to sort by date would also be nice. .

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

    The columns sort by default to the order items were added with the most recently added at the bottom. Clicking on a column header will forward sort by that column’s data, and clicking a second time on the same column header will reverse the sort.

  11. Video/Phone Conference System

    Provide video conference equipment for use at our Seattle and Tacoma Program Centers. Choose and set up a video conference provider for our volunteers to use.

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    0 comments  ·  Volunteers  ·  Admin →
  12. Finding Volunteers SD404/391

    Now that we are collecting volunteer skills and interests on My Profile, we need a way to find those whose interests and skills match available volunteer opportunities.

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  13. Change Color for links that those with higher permissions can see

    Can the colors on "hidden" menu options be changed? The red text on blue background is almost impossible to read.

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

    On calendar views, we have white text on colored backgrounds with the background color denoting the state.

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

    Activities can be scheduled for a route/place that has not been published, but only the author and staff can see it. All others will get an error. The more complete the content, the quicker we can review and publish. If you have an immediate need, please feel free to call our Member Services Team.

  15. Reduce number of clicks to access specific class rosters SD360

    Reduce number of clicks to access specific class roster- maybe allow users to "favorite" the classes they need to access often (esp for committee members who are not registered for the course in question). - Suggestion from Adam from Focus groups

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

    We have improved our new site wide search. Please check out the new search filters and let us know if there is anything else that would be useful.

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