Section Scouters can now create News Feed posts for their own section, by clicking “News Feed” | “Add”. This ability now replaces the klunky old “Troop News” interface. Most old Troop News were automatically converted to section News Feed posts. The advantage for a Scouter to be able to create posts for their section is that means you can have smaller tidbits of information (which can be individually hidden by users, once they've read them), and can specify start/stop days to you can make your communication more time-sensitive.

Even better, Scouters can also (almost) instantly create News Feed for specific events. E.g., For any upcoming event, you'll now find an “Add to News Feed” item in the right-hand action menu. Clicking on this will create a new post that contains

• A title and brief who/when/where list of details, that is always automatically updated if you ever edit the event
• The event crest (if any) as a right-aligned banner image
• A “Signup” button that takes the viewer to the specific event so they can read the full details and sign up
• A post expiry date, so the post automatically disappears when the event is over… meaning you never have to worry about cleaning up the news feed of irrelevant posts.

All this can be done just by clicking “Add to News Feed” then clicking “Save”!

News Feed posts now can have attachments.

News Feed posts now use the cool new Group/Council insignia, if defined (see below).

The “banner” image can now be position. The old “above the text” option is still available, but that's been complemented by a “left” and “right” position which has the post's text wrap arr ound the image.

There were also several cosmetic improvements, including having the Action button always visible, even if some of the post text is hidden under the “see more” link

Official Committee accounts can now upload an image as their insignia, by going to “Account” | “Public profile” | “Insignia”.

Ideally this would just be a photo of the crest, but could also be a graphic if you have the original artwork. The uploaded image is then used in the following contexts:

• It is used as the avatar for any News Feed post created by that account
• It is used as the image seen in section accounts when viewing the inventory. I.e., the Group and Council crests now show the appropriate image upload by your Group and Council.

• SS-4808: More helpful message when trying to reactivate a hard-locked account
• COVID: Made a bunch of COVID-related UI dependent on the pandemic stage and policy change dates
• COMMITTEE: “Show Meetings” should be overridden by a missing AAF (if Show AAF Deadlines is enabled)
• COMMITTEE: AAF Deadline should go to source event, not just say “Deadline”
• Updated AAF to exclude pandemic modifications (targeted for Nov 7th)
• SS-4799: Event to other schedule's events are replaced with a link to a local event if the current Troop has imported that event
• SS-4833: Signup/Attendance sheet emergency list no longer includes unknown signups in “Event Participants” option

• AAF: SS-4798: Submission deadlines were appearing for some events, even though the conditions didn't require an AAF
• SS-4811: Duplicate entries for badges in “Wall Chart” when also referencing the old program
• COMMITTEE: SS-4816: Transportation Plan feature was wired off
• PersonNoteAttachments weren't being updated with person_id
• SS-4822: Sometimes your subscribed events weren't showing up when Show Other Schedules was enabled and the source event was in the same edition
• SS-4835: In embedded calendars, the call-in details link for virtual events had a semi-colon appended to the URL
• SS-4851: updateMasterInfo was using login ID -1, rather than the master login's ID
• CHROME: Suppress a tooltip when trying to add a headshot photo for an unsaved member
• HELLO: Had SC restore the missing insignia placement images