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Release 10.3 - Key Features
Year-in-Program Support
You can now define a “year-in-program” value for each youth. For Beavers, this aligns with the long-established Brown/Blue/White tail model. For Cubs, this aligns with the new Runner/Tracker/Howler model. For other sections, this is just implemented as “1st year”, “2nd year”, etc.
All lists of youth (and there's a lot of them in ScoutsTracker, because it really is all about the youth!) now give you the ability group the youth either by year-in-program or by Patrol (a.k.a. Lair/Lodge/Team). This then helps you more easily plan your program (e.g., via “Troop Reports” | “Completion”) as you can now see all the youth at the same approximate age/progress in the same group. Similarly, if you need to send an email to just your senior Scouts, this is now trivial to do.
Despite sounding like a trivial change, this had a pretty big impact on the guts of the user interface, so if you notice anything that isn't behaving as expected, please let me know at support@scoutstracker.ca
Canadian Path Changes
Added OAS awards for Emergency, Vertical and Scoutcraft Skills.
Added the new Pack progression nomenclature (i.e., Runner/Tracker/Howler), and deprecated the now-obsolete Pack roles of Sixer and Second. Any existing sixers/seconds had their “Other roles” field updated to show “6er”/“2nd” so you'll see NO difference when looking at your list of Cubs. Similarly, if you want to keep using the sixer designation even though it's no longer officially part of the SC Pack Program, you're able to use the Cubs' “Other roles” field to record this.
Added link to the new scouters-manual.pdf on the “Home” page
Also, fixed the following OAS-specific bugs:
A youth's OAS progress was not moving up with youth, if there was already a record for that youth in their new section
Auto-completion logic was incorrect for Camping Skills #4.12 and Camping Skills #6.19a
“In Bulk” edit of OAS badges tally requirements showed current tally as zero
Commissioner Edition Bug Fixes
Couldn't update/delete custom inventory items
Accepting a license wasn't automatically joining section with paying commissioner's account
An account paid for by a Council could opt out of the council account
Embedded calendar could show inappropriate labels for sections
Added the target section's name to the pushed event notification email
“Connect” button doesn't work when connecting to “always secure” accounts
“Connect via another login” suggested that other commissioner accounts were trial accounts
“Add to annual report” event property was visible
Council tech contact couldn't delete unneeded accounts
Council tech contact was getting emails to sections
Fixed typos in “New Group License” notification email
Group license renewal lookup was based on email, and not existing license
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Display location in “Important Date” events
Add “Next »” to header button instead of “« Event” when creating new event from calendar
Clicking/tapping on inventory/payment/tally fields will now pre-select the existing text
Add “3-month” and “6-month” purchase options
Select current input text when inventory inputs get focus
Simplify the process of adding a login (now can be done when editing a youth)
Increased number of guests to 99
Show *both* Attendance and Signups for events that have started, but aren't yet finished
Now show Scouter's email addresses in “Account” | “Logins” | “Welcome Messages” list
IMPORT: initialize year-in-program to “1” for imported youth when existing troop info (also, set role to tenderpad)
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
Sending out Welcome Messages should use Login's email_delegate, if defined
Youth with the “Can Manage Schedule” permission couldn't import events
IMPORT: support beaver scouters-in-training in myscouts import
IMPORT: allow multiple youth to use the same SC Member number if the other youth is in a different section
Embedded calendar always defaults to calendar view, even if list view is enabled.
Suppress “undefined” contacts in embedded list-view schedules
Badge requirements with blank section headers prevented “related requirements” picker from opening
Tenderfeet/tenderpads weren't always being promoted to full members upon awarding of the appropriate badge
Saving a youth sometimes took you back to “Account”, rather than the list of youth
“Print as signup sheet” had an “include signup notes” option even for events without signup enabled
Apostrophe in patrol name not handled well when patrol names are re-edited
“Who's working on what” report has minor formatting issues
<strong>; elements in creole-formatted lists weren't using font-weight 400
Patch 10.1e
Enhancements
Added self-serve Council reports for GTC, NLC and Chinook
Uninitialized licensed accounts now FORCE user to set the Troop Details
Improved error message when trying to link to a “secret” facebook group
Added link to scouters-manual-pt2.pdf
COMMISSIONERS: Show expired accounts in your Area/License as such, even if they haven't redeemed your key
COMMISSIONERS: Allow tech_contact to send one-off emails to admins of expired and pending accounts
Bug Fixes
PACK: Ready-to-Award report would hang
Personal account Troop Details button wasn't saying “Upgrade to Troop Account”
Section in Council with with “master” login couldn't change their Council and Area, even if was missing
iOS: potential work-around for document sequencing error
Use compression to avoid the “out of memory” error
COMMISSIONERS: couldn't set role of Key People to “Other”
COMMISSIONERS: grouping sections by Label (e.g., Area) wasn't showhing the sections' level (e.g., Cubs)
On connect, the current scout droplist was showing the first youth in the list, rather than the current youth
The narrow screen youth picker wasn't being initialized with any youth
Patch 10.1f
Bug Fixes
Couldn't save changes to “BCC” vs “TO” in “other contacts” if you made no other changes to the youth's details
Migration messages were coming from support@scoutstracker.ca instead of no-reply@scoutstracker.ca
Patch 10.1g
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Bug Fixes
Parent logins were showing it as accessing lots of “undefined” youth AFTER changing another login“
COMMISSIONERS: Sections that haven't accepted an invite are showing up the mail “Quick Pick”, but aren't selectable
COMMISSIONERS: Clicking on an Area header in the mail “quick Pick” would basically hang
Symbolic framework maps and scouters manuals don't load in /mobile
Sometimes it would appear as if all your events had disappeared