Feature Incorporated: Hide Crew Visibility
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:17 am
Recently I had a discussion with Tom & Diana from J/109 Leading Edge. They have a different philosophy for getting crew setup for various events. Rather than setting a schedule and blasting an email out to the crew to sign up, they prefer to invite different sailor groups to certain events. They would like to keep the crew list hidden so the various groups may not see who is scheduled on an event.
I am proposing a concept that will allow this, yet not impact any sites that do not desire this feature. The proposed concept is as follows:
I am proposing a concept that will allow this, yet not impact any sites that do not desire this feature. The proposed concept is as follows:
- A new setting named Hide Crew Visibility will appear in the Crew Manager Modify Settings page. This will include the description -
"Using the Hide or Show options, crew may be hidden from display in the Calendar, Crew Availability, and Crew Assignments lists."
The default setting is Show and would need to be set to Hide if the Skipper wanted to enable the feature. - An additional Crew Group named Show Crew will be added to the Crew Manager Manage Groups page with the default as unchecked. The Skipper may check those crew members desired to be visible on the Calendar and selected crew lists whenever the Hide Crew Visibility setting is checked. The Skipper may want to make certain people visible (e.g. themselves) at all times.
- The crew summary on each event Total Crew X = Confirmed (Y) + Maybe (Z) will be displayed normally event though certain crew would not be shown
- Skippers logged in will see all crew on the calendar and lists as they do now.
- The Crew Roster is not affected by this change