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Release 18.3 - Key Features
Subscriber Override of Source Event Notes
Until this release, the Description and Scouter's Notes of the source event were not editable in any section that subscribed to the event.
This meant that any changes to the source event's Description (or Scouter's Notes) would be automatically propagated to all the Sections that had added that event to their own schedules.
But there was no mechanism to add Section-specific details (e.g., that the Venturers are showing up early to act as OOS before the younger sections arrive).
Similarly the source event's Transportation Plan was initially copied to any subscriber event, but then was assumed to be the problem of the subscribing Section, and as such was never updated as a result of any subsequent updates in the source event.
Now, all of Description, Scouter's Notes and the Transportation Plan can be amended or completely overridden.
Additionally, there is now the ability to define a default Transportation Plan that is used in all new events.
Advanced Settings Reorganization
Consolidated some of the event-related advanced settings
Add “Account” | “Youth-led programming” and add the ability to create events (from Schedule | Options) and “Allow youth to help manage the schedule”.
Moved Logins' “Is a default event contact person?” setting into “Account” | “Event defaults”
Ability to use default Transportation plan text (set in “Account” | “Event defaults”)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
“Schedule” | “Options” | “Show other schedules” should have a grouping-by selector
EMAIL: Improved non-delivery message when login is opted out but Mandrill didn't return a reason
EMAIL: Emails that use default template (e.g., Welcome Messages) now have better formatting, including the actual product header image and paragraph spacing
NEWSFEED: Background of event-based posts for cancelled events now switches to grey
Added additional logs for Copy Session Details
Bug Fixes
Prevented incorrect message about multi-section events when creating Personal events
Going to “needs approval” scouter says it's been initialized “Can see all records”. Should be “Can see everyone's basic information”
COMMITTEE: SS-5079: Clicking on “Schedule” | “Options” | “Show other schedules” could fail for some Council accounts
COMMITTEE: SS-5078: Couldn't import from MyScouts if the SC organization identifier contained quotation marks
COMMITTEE: HELLO: SS-5110: Updating the custom page wasn't doing anything
COMMITTEE: Doing a Reload from Server could cause exception if News Feed insignia was expected
COMMITTEE: SS-5079: Clicking on “Schedule” | “Options” | “Show other schedules” could fail for some Council accounts
RSVP: SS-5089: RSVP buttons were showing a date range even when it was just a one-day event
SS-5092: Bulk attendance update Save wasn't doing anything
SS-5103: Marking an account as (soft) inactive wasn't preventing someone from adding events to the schedule
AAF: Bridging behaviour of requiring that Cat 1 events no longer be approved is no longer required in email sent to GC
NEWSFEED: SS-5118: shouldn't show event-based posts for deleted events if the event no longer exists (or should show message)
SS-5126: Event emails not prepopulating with description
SS-4834: Post-import notification email was not listing Other Participants amongst the roster changes
ACCOUNT_OUTBOUND_EMAIL was misnamed in client code
SS-5516: Incorrect retrieval of carryover loginID
SS-4834: Red-herring report that all members were being modified by report
Patch (2023-02-17)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
INFO: Cleaned some references to no-longer-offered Personal Accounts
Reset the transportation plan every time you navigate to “Account” | “Event defaults” so you don't think unsaved default is actually being used
Restored styling for member name after page heading
“Master” <small> cleared when master is made inactive
Better hierarchy prompts when creating new accounts and editing Group details
COMMITTEE: Prevent the creation of Area accounts
COMMITTEE: Disable scorecarding for sectionYouth
When the server expires during a client session, retry login verifications with the new nonce
Miscellaneous tweaks to Merge conflict display/behaviour
Only default to “only collect signup” to NO if it's more than 24-hours before the event
Bug Fixes
SS-5136: FIREFOX: Incorrect message saying the account is locked
SS-5116: Failure to connect when you had login information stored in the session properties, but no authtoken
SS-5135: Failure to create new event after having set the default transporation plan
SS-5107: “Show IN/OUT Columns” option was missing in the hour before a non all-day event starts
“Account” | “Emergency listing” shows the “Only include event participants” option
SS-5149: Problems with resolving Scouter logins when one Scouter is the Group's master
EMAIL: Create a leader-only event, send email, Quick Pick lets you pick youth! (should be filtered by eligible/visibility). Ditto for Add non-rsvp'd recipients.
Patch (2023-02-25)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
“Account” | “Access granted by logins” (and “permissions” report) shows “Unknown” if login has no display name. Should show blank.
SS-5160: Deleting logins from “Account” | “Accessed granted by logins” leaves you on the report page
When you have some non-members eligible to attend an event (but not signed up), it doesn't show them in the view-event Sign Up List (or in the edit-event summary subtext)
EMBED: Improved foreground text colors on section swatches in embedded/shared calendars
Better color of lightbox border for embedded calendars (e.g., “fetching events” lightbox)
Tweaked position of “Close” on lightbox
Bug Fixes
EMAIL: SS-5512: Couldn't set/clear the account-wide Reply-To email address
INVENTORY: SS-5515: Once shared uniform elements were updated from section account, they were hidden from the uniform
OFFLINE: Launch offline, and go to “Account” | “Scouters”. Shows all scouters and having “No login”
COMMITTEE: EMBED: GC-assigned nickname wasn't being used in embedded calendar
COMMITTEE: Connect to account in “Other” Group or not official, and get not-aaf-ready dialog, click on “Public Profile” button to select a Group… but current Group name is missing
Member grouping option “by signup order” wasn't working correctly
LOGIN: Drill down to a leader Login, drill down on Leader, delete leader (restores you to Login page, try to Save, get assert
Youth has “can modify schedule”, went to “My Events”, clicked “Add”, then clicked “next” without selecting any labels. Didn't see explanation dialog.
Avoid NPE when cleaning subscriptions to deleted events
Minor logic error when preselecting default login choices during scouter merge
pioneercp badge image didn't have transparent background
Winter camp attribute icon background is not fully transparent
SS-4350: Connect to /hello website, click on event, you see an (empty) “Email History” link
COLONY: SS-4461: Canadian Path Link Badge was missing from “Home” | “Other”
SS-3911: Weird scaling on signup/attendance worksheet (SC Member #, and first aid quals) when printed
Patch (2023-03-10)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Much better defaulting of login name (takes into account accessed members)
Better default Welcome Message text (takes into account accessed members and whether the login is parent login)
“My login” now shows new-autogenerated display name
Recreate getLoginName on the server, for use with signing in
Moved “Dragon Quest” to list of past challenges, added stub for “Scout Trek”
Added helpful tips to event's label picker
Added preliminary (mock-up) support for the upcoming Scout Trek Challenge
Bug Fixes
SIGNUP: SS-5177: The reference the count of other youth signups for parent/youth logins was missing
LOGIN: SS-5179: Javascript error on connection
EMAIL: SS-5165: Upon fresh login, you were falsely being claiming you werent't authorised to send emails
SS-5188: No Deadline option for a group event plus strange description issue
Shared/Embedded link to event just lists related badges (but doesn't list actual requirements)
Patch (2023-03-29)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Added an “Events that need attention” section on homepage
Improved presentation of “Logins to Other Section Levels”
Better handling/messaging of invalid section keys when setting up collaboration
MULTIACCOUNT: Can now get Emergency Listing for master/overview events, showing all sections' signups
SS-5235: Default Javascript sort has uses localeCompare
SS-5233: Added ability to modify Program Cycle, Program Area, and Map Locations in subscribed events
Bug Fixes
SS-5199: Welcome Message was trying to send to email address “unknown”
SS-5200: Welcome Message was not using custom message
SS-5199: Welcome Messages to scouters were using “Hello Unknown” as the greeting
Youth/Parent view of past event was showing always no attendees
CONSENT: SS-5187: Parents can't complete consent after the signup deadline (they can via RSVP, but not when signed into ScoutsTracker, Scouters *can* already do this)
SS-5206: Couldn't select count drop down after selecting a label
SS-5208: Silent error trying to import “Other Participant” via Role ID
NEWSFEED: SS-5213: position of above-the-body banner images in event-based posts where the event has a manually-added banner (rather than an event crest) were too small
INVENTORY: SS-5212: Shared custom inventory items weren't showing the name in the section accounts
SS-5229: Deleted members with home keys that pointed to themselves caused an endless recursion
Patch (2023-04-18)
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Get rid of version 18 tip
QUALS: “Manage list of qualifications” sorting/display is improvement
AAF: Add “U18” beside names of under-18 scouters
Bug Fixes
COVID: SS-5239: Checkbox enabling of “Finalize Anyway” button was reversed
SS-5238: Give Credit wasn't highlighting previously-credited requirements
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SS-5261: Youth were being set to unassigned patrol after adding login
SS-5236: Signup deadline is 12pm on the signup deadline day. Should use isSignupDeadlinePast() method that uses 23:59:59
SS-5271: Typo in instruction prompt
Scouters who had opted out of Troop emails had a “null” subtext in default outing contacts and signup notifications pickers
SS-5272: Quals: Setting an “equivalent ID” for a qual in a different category meant it wasn't being shown/counted
Cleaned up some mis-migrated newsfeed posts from the old “Troop News” that was preventing them from being further edited
No calendar swatches were shown when viewing “Other Schedules” was enabled by you had no collaboration (other than the official Council/National accounts)
NEWSFEED: SS-5277: Posts about Council events weren't showing up in Section News Feeds
#edit-post header page title used wrong
CSS
Patch (2023-05-03)
Unconfirmed (i.e., Tentative) Events
You can flag an event as being “unconfirmed” when creating it.
Similarly, when pushing an event to your sections from a Committee account, you're given the opportunity to flag it as unconfirmed in the target sections if you're not sure whether the target section actually wants to expose the event to their members. This is a cleaner solution than using the event “visibility” to accomplish the same end.
Youth without the “Can manage schedule” have always been able to create “Personal” events, but are now also able to create unconfirmed events (that the section leadership team can see that they have to confirm).
Unconfirmed events are clearly highlighted as such, and are only visible to logins with the “Can manage the schedule” permission (and the event creator)
You can't record signup/attendance, or create AAFs, or send emails/create posts for unconfirmed events.
When viewing an unconfirmed event, there's a “Confirm” action item that will remove the “unconfirmed” flag, making it visible and usable by the target members.
Minor enhancement: searching for an cancelled or unconfirmed event now shows “(CANCELLED)” or “(UNCONFIRMED)” in the same font color as used elsewhere
Miscellaneous Enhancments
Log “syncid” on server for debugging
Youth members can see/edit outings for which they are listed as outing contacts
NEWSFEED: Set height of event-based post to show entire outing-overview
NEWSFEED: Allow people with “Can send emails” to see/edit recently-expired posts in the archive
Search now looks through the text of notes for PAB's
Better stack trace generation when hitting window.onerror
Bug Fixes
HELLO: SS-5284: Calendar is blank
Prototype getStartOfDayTimestamp wasn't implemented correctly
NEWSFEED: Posts not showing when you launch in offline mode
NEWSFEED: SS-5527: Event-based posts from the a Committee account were not showing the event overview
Wired off test for program costs if program costs not supported
EMBEDDED: SS-5288: Calendar is blank
SS-5293: “Final requirements” logic wasn't working in the Ready-to-Demonstrate report
Fixed a number of issues with Special Awards
When searching matches a special award, clicking on the search result wasn't correctly switching youth
COMMITTEE: Connected account that wasn't AAF-ready, went to “Get Set Up” | “Go to Public Profile” and there is a checkbox “This is the official account of this Cubs” checkbox
COMMITTEE: Upon first viewing of schedule, “show other schedules” event were showing up even if the option was disabled
The unannotated collab name was being shown when viewing an event from another schedule
SS-5277: End date of event-based posts aren't correct if the underlying event is rescheduled
EMAIL: SS-5265: Better handling of situations when event's payment list is missing