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Release 15.2 - Key Features
Feature: AAF Updates
SC has updated the Adventure Application Form slightly, so ScoutsTracker now conforms to the latest version.
Additionally, due to popular demand, the members' relevant safety quals are now shown beside their name in the list of participants. In this manner, the GC can quickly be reassured that there are sufficient members with the appropriate quals attending the event.
As well there were the following minor changes
BUG: Clicking tour permit button on AAF wasn't actually doing anything
ENH: Hide the program description select, if “Leave Blank” is the only option available
In keeping with modern design practices, the left-hand sidebar can now be shown/hidden by clicking on ☰ in the toolbar. Normally, the menu is open when on wide screens, and hidden on narrow screens, but on medium screens (like tablets or smartphones in landscape mode) where the menu would normally display by default it's sometimes nice to be able to hide the menu and gain yourself some more real estate.
Mobile Calendar Enhancements
The calendar now shrinks down the information it displays as the screen gets smaller. E.g., when the display is small, it'll hide some of the icons it normally shows (e.g., favourite, subscription), hide the time/location, and reduce the event title to a single (clipped) line. This means that on very small screens (where you may only have a paltry 80-100 pixels) you'll still see that there's a Hike on Saturday, without having lots of information being displayed in ridiculously tall and narrow column.
Push Enhancements
Re-worked the push interface, so that the pusher is now explicitly prompted for how the event should be visible in the target accounts… e.g., should it be visible to everyone or just Scouters? Appropriate warnings are given to force the Commissioner to consider whether making something visible to everyone might be confusing if a section has alternative plans for that date.
Additionally, the pusher now has the ability to control whether the accounts' scouters are notified of the event, and if so, there is the ability to add some personalized text to the push notification (e.g., “I finally got around to creating the “BP Banquet” event that we discussed at the GC”)
Login Process Tweaks
Changed the Security PIN challenge dialog to
Show you how you are connecting (Scouter, Youth, Other Participant)
Let you directly switch to another Login
Replaced instructional text with a more helpful “Forgot PIN?” link
Additionally, under “Accounts” the item formerly known as “Connect via my other logins” has now been relabelled “Use a different login”
Miscellaneous Enhancements
EMAIL: Added “unblock” link for SPAM rejections
Show youth's name on Delete Youth dialog
Work-around a PayPal bug in which they are returning the “Security Challenge (Prove you're not a robot)”
HTML instead of the word “VERIFIED” or “INVALID”.
Update timestamp of source event upon deleting of a subscription so Commission event can more quickly reflect the correct list/number of pushed sections
Better national/council support for embedded calendars
Added a refresh button to the calendar, so impatient users don't have to wait for the next sync
Bug Fixes
SS-1851: Couldn't mark youth as Inactive
Drilling down to “Account” | “Public Profile” would change the hamburger to “Cancel”
Could get a null pointer exception if the sidebar wasn't visible
Couldn't cancel out of “Reports” | “Qualifications”
Patch (2019-11-21)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Improved error message when launching in a Firefox 'Private' window
Catch a harmless exception in Personal accounts
Add tip and link upon connecting to non-official Group accounts
Add tip and link upon connecting to Group accounts in which you're an administrator but not opted-in to notification emails
Improved the scary warning when Group administrators opt out of receiving notification emails
ADMIN: added UA parser to searchUsers
AAF: Added a list of tips upon failing to approve an AAF
ADMIN: update the license contact with the most recent payer's details
Bug Fixes
The “Account” | “Advanced” | “Only working on new Program” toggle always say “YES” regardless of the actual value
AAF: SS-1926: Couldn't create AAF if there was no member-in-charge
Trying to build the list of event summary signups indexes into wrong table
Not resetting section ID when underlying login is moved (support only)
SS-1933: Annual Report selector (and other year selectors) had no entries after Reload from Server
Patch (2019-11-29)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Added ability to directly jump to
FAQ question
Improved “error opening database” warning for Firefox problems
Improved detection of Edge in “InPrivate” mode
Renewal notice has link to “org-sc” rather than “commissioners”
SS-1967: COMMISSIONER: Ensure that tech contacts are updated upon changing login email address
ADMIN: support ^ at beginning of searches
ADMIN: Ensure that master login is reset to none upon deleting a login that is a tech contact
ADMIN: Ensure that accounts are unlicensed before deleting them, and that license contacts are updated
ADMIN: Don't bother sending volume status updates for expired volumes
Bug Fixes
The commissioner's “not an official account” warning was being displayed in section accounts
COMMISSIONER: ScoutsTracker would appear to do nothing when updating “official” status after getting the Group “you're not official” message at launch time
SS-1944: Generating calendar bogged down browser when showing large numbers of sections all subscribing to the same event
SS-1970: Some links to BP&P policy-29, had bad links
SS-1972: COMMISSIONER: Some sections were incorrectly showing the “no photo consent” icon
SS-1974: COMMISSIONER: Were getting unsuccessfully prompted to pick a PIN, if you connected from the Commissioner edition and you already had a pre-existing contact, and you had the wrong hash order
Patch (2019-12-18)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Revamped authentication
SS-1988: Removed “Add all 1st Muddy Paw Sections” collab option if you were a Group account under an Area/Council license
SS-1998: Updated SC text explaining Risk Categories to reference the AAF instead of the COAA
“Stay signed in” now has a limit of two weeks
AU: Clearer wording when importing events from other age sections
QUADRANT: Add an ALWAYS_RESYNC property
List of scouters during merge now shows their role/other roles annotations
COLONY: Beaver hat tails now annotated with “(Hat)” rather than “(Old)”
Hide all perm-master logins from “Use a Different Account” page
Can now sign into mastered sections without having to go through licensing account
Bug Fixes
Endless recursion changing the email address of the tech contact
COLONY/PACK: SS-1980: Events defined in other editions that are linking events are not adding linking map location (e.g., “Akela's Jungle”)
VENTURES: Wrong indent for some badges in “Other” category
SS-1982: Clicking on next/prev in list of “Other” badges was progressing through arbitrary sequence of all badges
“History” report was showing the “(Total = 12)” annotation twice for events that occured in the youths' previous sections
Calendar wasn't showing subscription and favourite icons on events, upon first navigating to the Schedule
SS-1999, SS-2000, SS-2001, SS-2003, SS-2006, SS-2007: Myriad of tweaks, bug fixes and admin support for auto-created master logins
EMAIL: Quick Pick table cell borders were misaligned
HELLO: SS-2009: Section accounts that hadn't agreed to join a Group Commissioner account were being listed in the /hello website
Malformed /embed end-point was resulting in a NPE rather than a helpful message
SS-2020: Cancelled events should not have warnings about missing/unapproved AAF's or unmet safety quals
SS-2024: “Ready to Demonstrate” report wasn't showing “final requirements”
COMMISSIONERS: sometimes couldn't see birthday reminders after connect as master to a section account
AAF: Cat 1 events that had submitted AAF's that were converted to Cat 2+ events were not showing the “your previous AAF is obsolete” flags
AAF: Couldn't sign AAF's if you were connected as master
Patch (2020-01-09)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Let scouters be added to an expired account, so former admin can hand-off reins to new scouter
Let youth/scouters be transferred OUT of an expired account
SS-2078: Yet another SC website redesign broke links, yet again
AAF: Archive an actual rendered copy of the form with Council/National, rather than just the fields
Bug Fixes
SS-2026: Error clicking on shared event link when logged out
COMMISSIONERS: SS-2071: Attempting to do an expired “connect” login was kicking to you off-line mode
SS-2076: Removed incomplete attachments “Options” button
SS-2044: Sea Scout variants got caught in an endless sign in loop
SS-2037: Updated link for the Transporation Standards
SS-2034: It wasn't posssible to set an event fee for Other Participants, unless you enabled Guests
Sea Scout variants were showing “undefined” for the list headers of Other Participants
SS-2055: The page title when adding a new Other Participant used the youth moniker
AAF: SS-2082: Subscription event's descriptions weren't being included in the Program Description field