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Release 17.5 - Key Features
New Program Elements
ScoutsTracker now supports the Claim the Flame challenge under “Home” | “Seasonal challenges”.
Usability Tweaks
SS-3933: When deleting a youth, if there are other youth with similar names, the user is warned about the fact and shown the similar names. This then helps them confirm that they aren't deleting the wrong “Ethan”.
SS-3982: Add an “Apply to all upcoming events” button to “Account” | “Advanced” | “Default Scouter-in-charge”, so if the Scouter-in-charge wasn't different for some of the events, they can quickly be replaced. This is useful when you have a leadership change. Changing the Scouter-in-charge prompts you if you want to apply the change to any upcoming events if some of those events have a different Scouter-in-charge.
Wired off the creation of “personal” accounts. The existence of these accounts were a hold-over from when Sections/Groups had to individually pay for ScoutsTracker, and consequently there were situations when the Youth wanted to track their own progress, even though the Scouters didn't want to pay. But now that National is covering the licence fee, this is no longer a common situation, and is instead being used by parents who forgot their login.
Deleted old databases and tables that were still being retained from this summer's big schema migration.
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Added better reporting of global-block rejections
Moved updating of message status to “sent” to the ResponseParser, and added polling loop to client
Added support for “Safety” section in a custom badge definition's Notes field
Cleaned up some use of apostrophes in HTTP params
Reduce amount of uploaded outing data when cancelling, updating member-in-charge, etc.
Reduce number of times EMAIL_META gets upload to server
===== Bug Fixes
SS-3394: Changing your own login to use an email address already associated with another login shows a dialog, but the “Continue” button wasn't working
Assertion when updating EMAIL_META
COMMITTEE: SS-3949: Group-wide progress report was reporting a 500 error
COMMITTEE: SS-3954: Pandemic stage colours weren't being set correctly
SS-3947: Incorrect edition recorded when logins moved up to next section
Could get caught in an endless login loop if events had been misstored with account ID = 0
SS-3956: Red-herring error message when transferring youth to another account
SS-3959: Deleting an attachment doesn't immediately update the list of attachments, causing one to believe it didn't get deleted
SS-3972 (and others): Events appeared to go missing after signing in
Bogus events could prevent /hello website from loading
SS-3973: Yet another SC website redesign resulted in broken links to documents
COMMITTEE: Email invitations to collaborate weren't including the required invitation key
The list of other logins in the “You have no logins” page could be empty for some users