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

• Automatically convert youtube links to embedded videos (also affects event descriptions)
• Better auto-scaling of landscape-oriented avatars
• If “News Feed” contains no posts it now says something helpful

• Zebra-striping for signup/attendance worksheet
• Offer additional options for determining which signup statuses to include in the worksheet
• SS-4847: Make Signup/Attendance worksheet have a signup-only mode (hides attendance columns)

• Significant rewording of (now-called) “Schedule” | “Options” | “Events to fetch” option
• If “Schedule” | “Options” | “Events to fetch” is set to “Active Scouts”, and you navigate to a month that predates, them the mode is automatically switched to “All time”
• Iterating through next/prev events shouldn't show Submission Deadline (or birthdays)

• Search now also looks through a badges “Resources” section
• Sort by scope/name in “Connect via a different login”
• COMMITTEE: Default “Show other schedules' events” to YES for Group accounts

• SS-4876: Scrolling forward and backward wasn't correctly adding previously-fetched collab events to the schedule
• Scouting Role ID was not visible for Other Participants
• Empty “Inventory Management” heading is visible in National/Council accounts
• SS-4878: Couldn't (un)mark an entire badge as complete from the “Change” button
• SS-4879: In the event of outing ID collision, wrong person could get signup notifications
• SS-4892: Members with home account stack where the final reference points to a soft-deleted accounts was generating an NPE

In order to support the harried scouter who is being handed Parent/Guardian consent forms as youth are being dropped off, these forms can now uploaded after the event has taken place.

In order to support the GC who for some reason cannot approve a submitted AAF prior to the event (but gives their verbal go-ahead) these forms can now be approved after the event has taken place.

AAF creation and submission must still take place before the event, as required by SC policy.

Bug fix: In a Committee account viewing an AAF of a Cat 3 event wasn't showing links to the consent forms

• Better feedback after doing an “Import by ID”
• COMMITTEE: Support the trivial case of section nicknames like “Beavers” so annotated names don't show up as “Beavers - Beavers”
• EMAIL: When selecting “Add Everyone” in an event-based email, it now only adds the eligible members
• Hide national from the list of collaborations, because even though you can see its schedule, national can't see yours (as implied by the text)
• Clean up database of email self-invites to the Group, and revoked/unneeded email invites

• SS-4899: Do an “Import by ID” of senior youth as a SCOUTER into a section in which they already had an inactive youth login was failing
• COMMITTEE: Name simplification was checking for long section level (e.g., “Beaver Colony”) when it should have been checking for short (e.g., “Beavers”)
• COMMITTEE: Enabling mandatory auto-collaborate wasn't doing anything if there were prior email-based collaboration invites