January 2022 – Crew Manager Wishes You a Happy New Year! |
Hello %firstname% %lastname%,
Happy New Year to all Crew Manager subscribers. It has been a while since I emailed everyone an update so wanted to let you know that the newest Crew Manager release was finished and incrementally rolled out over the past two weeks. All sites are now running version 3.0.0 that has many new features. Expect to receive a detailed message before the end of January describing the summary below.
New Features
- More robust filters for categories and tags making it easier to group and search for events.
- Display of categories & filters on the event titles in the lists making them easily to visually see without having to open each event
- Creating a series, then splitting to individual events is now easier with the push of a button. Crew is automatically copied from the master event to and event that is split off.
- Cancel Event Immediately has options to cancel a particular day, or the entire series.
- Buttons are available to copy URLs to the clipboard for filtered events on the various Crew Manager generated pages . This makes it easier to send a link to crew for things such as “update availability for One Design events”, or “Check out our finish results for the ORC races”.
- Skipper Send Email now retains what was sent (or attempted to be sent) on the screen so that it may be easily sent to another group, or if a mistake was made, can be edited and resent.
- Custom Reports have more fields available to include in reports and events may have crew sorted in the same order as shown on the calendar crew lists.
- Admin screens now include prominent buttons to easily navigate in the admin section, or back to the site home page.
- Photo upload capability improved for adding to comments made by crew on posts and events
Online documentation is being updated and will be completed by 15 January. As always, the documentation is available on your site menu under Support.
Please Clear Your Browser Cache!
Many of the new features include scripts and styling that are cached by your web browser. These need to be manually cleared by all users for the new features to work properly.
Online documentation is being updated and will be completed by 15 January. As always, the documentation is available on your site menu under Support.
Bug Fixes
- A number of bus were found and corrected. These will be detailed in the next message. Noteworthy is the following bug….
- Finally Fixed! Bug that had Work Around for Split & Edit on Calendar Display has incorrect dates: Previously it was found that when a calendar page displays only a portion of the repeating events (e.g. events span across a month), the Split & Edit links create the separated event on the wrong day. This has been fixed.
Crew Manager Documentation
Crew Manager documentation is always available from each boats menu with the support forum, Crew & Skipper manuals. The manuals include a searchable table of contents and index to make finding information easier. This is available on all sites by mousing over Support and clicking on Crew Manual or Skipper Manual as desired. The support forum will still be used for feature announcements, bug reports/fixes, and FAQs.
Support documentation direct links are provided below.
- Skipper Manual – Online manual for the Skipper
- Crew Manual – Online manual for the Crew
- Documentation and FAQs – Answers to frequently asked questions
- Crew Manager User Discussion and Questions – If you have a question or want to discuss something post it here.
- Report a Bug – If you find a problem report it here so it can be addressed.
- Request a Feature – We are open to suggestions, additions or changes to Crew Manager that will make it better for everyone!
Crew Manager LLC is a low budget operation with website hosting expenses and RI Small Business tax filing expenses. If you like it, please help recruit boats by forwarding this email to your friends. The Annual Subscription for New Sites and Annual Subscription Renewal options are the best deal. I hope you find Crew Manager as a useful means to organize your schedule and crew. If you have suggestions on how it can be made better, feel free to post on the Support Forum.
