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release_5.0 [2017/07/29 14:09]
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 +[[Release Notes|<< List of all previous releases]]
 +====== Release 5.0 - Key Features ======
 +This big new in this release is that scout-badges.com is now an official Scouts Canada app, and will now be called "ScoutsTracker"!
  
 +===== Name Change to ScoutsTracker! =====
 +
 +If you've currently bookedmarked scout-badges.com or saved it to the home screen of your mobile device, there's no need to change anything... because everything that applies to ScoutsTracker equally applies to scout-badges.com (behind the scenes, it's the same server).
 +
 +And, I'm still the one who will be supporting and extending the app. Of course, the downside to that is that it means there will be no change to the fee structure.
 +
 +===== Beavers! =====
 +
 +The UK Beaver Program is now supported. UK? Well as most Beaver leaders already know, Scouts Canada is in the process of developing a Beaver Badge Program. It is likely that we will use some elements of the UK program in our own Program. Even for groups not running a badge program, this will let you track events and costs.
 +
 +Because it's the UK program, you'll notice some odd spellings and vocabulary.
 +
 +The only caveat is that if Scouts Canada ends up rolling out a Program that differs substantially from the UK Program, then some of your record-keeping may be rendered obsolete... this is a risk you'll have to take.
 +
 +===== New Youth/Leader Provisioning - Creating Logins =====
 +
 +When you create a new user you can optionally send out an email (the standard text can be personalized) that welcomes the new user and provides them with their sign-in credentials.
 +
 +There is a "Randomize" button beside the password, so you don't have to think up a unique password or give each new user the same password.
 +
 +The welcome email can also be used with existing logins, if you want to reset a password for user or re-invite a youth/leader who has never signed in
 +
 +===== New Youth/Leader Provisioning - Initial Data Entry =====
 +
 +Under "Account" | "Scouts", each youth has a link to a per-youth tabular representation of all the badges which you can use to quickly enter that youth's historical records from your existing record-keeping system (e.g., old paper record sheets).
 +
 +===== Cost-Tracking =====
 +
 +Just in time for tax season, a "Program Costs" report has been added to assist with the generation of the Children's Activity Tax Credit receipts.
 +
 +This shows, for each youth, the sum of the program-related costs associated with the events you run within a particular calendar year, which you could then add to the eligible cost of registration. Of course, it assumes your records of eligible costs and participation are accurate!
 +
 +Guidelines for what constitutes eligible expenses can be found at http://www.rev.gov.on.ca/en/credit/catc/faq.html#Q2
 +
 +===== Report Enhancements =====
 +
 +  * You can now view (but not edit) your inventory when offline
 +  * When you print out an event, it will include full text for each of the "Related Requirements", so that you don't have to bring a print-out AND a handbook.
 +  * Attendance report now allows for In Bulk editing
 +  * Attendance report now shows which youth have customized participation in an event
 +
 +===== Bug Fixes =====
 +
 +  * Account expiry was showing up as NaN-NaN-NaN
 +  * Couldn't un-complete a completed requirement via In Bulk editing if it was in a badge with parts (e.g., Voyageur A1, or a cub star)
 +  * List of accessed youth for each login wasn't updated until you reconnected (e.g., F5)
 +  * Updated the database to accommodate changes to chiefscout.info workbook names
 +  * Clicking on blank calendar entries wasn't creating a new event, except in FF on Windows
 +  * Embedded calendar was showing the entire app, rather than just read-only upcoming events
 +  * Completion report could falsely show some reqs as not needed in very specific cases