Ideas and Suggestions for Track it Forward
Help us grow Track it Forward and make it better! Suggest new ideas, improvements to the current site, and vote on other ideas. We will be reviewing this list constantly and using the suggestions and the amount of votes they have to decide on what to build next! — James
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Getting Error - This activity does not exists, please log back in to sync up your phone
Getting error -when posting hours -" This activity does not exists, please log back in to sync up your phone" when the activity is in the drop down box, please assist.
1 voteThis happens when an organizer changes the activity. You need to log back in to sync it up.
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Restrict hours confirmations for events to certain coordinators
We run multiple events/activities but they need to be restricted as to who can log. For example Board Members and Room Parents are considered to have worked all their hours purely by their position but not everyone should be allowed to add volunteers to this category.
1 voteYou should be able to do this by assigning field approvers: https://track-it-forward.groovehq.com/help/field-approvers
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Set a hours collection period
We track parent volunteer hours per academic year (they have a minimum to fulfill) but this doesn't map to a calendar year. It would be nice to be able to say the collection period is 26 August - 17 June.
2 votesYou can actually set the period for hour collection for the school year. You can how to do this in this article: https://www.trackitforward.com/content/custom-milestone-periods-and-assigning-specific-volunteers-specific-milestones
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Sum Total of Hours logged on Volunteer's user/summary page
Currently, you can see individual entries, and line chart of each entry. It would be also helpful to have a sum of all entries.
Date 1 - 5 hours
Date 3 - 5 hoursTotal to date- 10 hours
I think currently the only way to look it up is to then go over to the reporting feature and run it there.
Thank you James and Anca, for continuing to help make this more user-friendly!
4 votesWe heard ya and in case you didn’t notice, volunteer hours are now summarized on their timesheets.
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Tag volunteers with different roles/or statuses.
As a coordinator, I would like to tag my volunteers and have it show up in the main volunteer list, that way I can see which volunteers are, "On Sabbatical", or "Special Projects", etc
This helps our organization keep track of different nuances of volunteering.
Alternatively, expose the NOTES section of the volunteer profile on the master list to serve the same purpose.
5 votesIf you use our profile fields, you can set volunteers to have those different roles.
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Sort the Milestone List by Name
As a Coordinator, I want to see the milestones achieved in alphabetical order by name (At least first name), so we can print our list out and make it easy to reference who made membership.
3 votesIn case you weren’t aware, we already have this. Contact our support team if you still need assistance.
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Sort Most Recent Volunteer Hours by Date Volunteered, Not Date submitted.
Sorta weird that when I view a volunteers profile, their latest volunteered hours are by the submission date. Makes it weird if you submit historical hours.
1 votegood suggestion; these pages are slated for a revamp but I did adjust the order since that was pretty easy for us to do.
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Color the different roles for at a glance of who is what
As a Coordinator, I'd like to know at a glance, who is set to which role, without drilling down to each account.
Owner has a yellow highlight, but all of our users start as Reporters, so they are all orange. Without that highlight, I don't know who is what at a glance.
1 voteGreat suggestion get done quickly. Thanks Lucas.
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Sort Hours Column on Custom Report
When I run a custom report for month and by hours, I'd like to be able to sort the Hours column ascending and descending, similar to the date column.
That way, I know which volunteers hit membership each month.
0 votesCompletely sortable.
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API for data access
Hi there, I have been assigned the project of looking at volunteer hours data. I've been learning some Python scripting to do that so it's fun. I can manually download the CSV, and I have been looking into scraping off of the OurVolts site, but it would also be nice to have a nice API with which someone in my position could just grab it without having to simulate filling out and submitting forms.
Also, some of the stuff they want me to do could be directly integrated into OurVolts. That includes the option to look at weekly totals of…
1 voteI reviewed this Efrem, and we found a way to accomplish this goal with the Milestones
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Active vs. Inactive Volunteers
It would be nice to have an "Active / Inactive" checkbox or other way to distinguish my current volunteers from those who have moved on or left the program. I don't want to delete their accounts, as I still want to know historically how many hours were donated to my organization back when they were contributing, but I'd like to keep a record of who is still volunteering currently.
4 votesSo if you delete the volunteers, they actually just become inactive, put into the “trashcan”, and the data is still there.
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Fix redirect after deleting an hour submission
When I'm in the Hour Approvals section of my Dashboard, I can select the "edit" option, and then delete the submission (in the case of a duplicate entry, or hours submitted in error). But, after the hours submission is deleted, I am automatically redirected to the ourvolts.com homepage. I would prefer to be directed back to my Dashboard (just as I am when I edit and then approve an hours submission).
1 voteGreat idea! We literally put this in right now so its a lot more streamlined.
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Be able to "folder" or categorize events instead of one long list
We have several different kinds of events with different repeating periods (some daily, some weekly, etc) and it would be great if we could look at them separately so that we didn't have to weed through all the daily events to see the weekly ones.
21 votesWe put in some basic categorization of events. If you go to create an event (or edit an existing event), you can now add a category. When viewing the event calendar, an option will appear that says “filter by category” where you can toggle different events by type.
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Allow organizer/manager to see more info on volunteers
Allow the site owner/manager to see info on volunteers such as phone number, address so that they can contact volunteers directly.
1 voteThe manager has access to the volunteers profile information through the Organizer Dashboard > Volunteers tab.
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Ability to write my own Subject title when inviting volunteers to sign-up for events
Right now people get an email from OurVolts and it always starts with VOLUNTEER...I'd prefer to pick my own subject for the invite email.
Love that we can post and vote on suggestions! Thanks!
1 voteYou can now edit the subject line when sending out the email.
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Select All Option when Approving Added Volunteer Time
I have 70 people needing their time worked approved. At the moment I have to click approved one by one AND wait for the page to reload in between each approval. Let's get a Select ALL options to approve everyone at once.
Thank you!
1 voteGreat suggestion, this is now complete, this one’s been a long time coming.
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Events don't get moved to "Passed" until the day is over
If I have an event on 2/14 at starting at 8pm. The Event goes to the Passed Events section starting at 2/14 8am. I'd like it to stay in the Upcoming Events section until the event has actually passed.
Thanks!!
1 voteToday’s events will no longer go in passed events.
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Add "Event Time" as one of the fields to fill out when posting events
At the moment I'm putting the overall time of the event in the Title. It would be great if it had it's one field and was visible from the "list of events" page.
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Group Volunteers so invites can be directed to specific groups
At the moment when we want to communicate with our volunteers we can either 1) contact all 2) select one-by-one who you want to contact 3) enter emails.
We have 70 volunteers. I often want to contact 30 of them who help out with Events but don't want to contact the other 40 who volunteer their time Hosting (not doing events).
It would be super helpful if everyone was put into a group (ie Event Volunteers, Host Volunteers...) and then we had the ability to email groups.
Thanks!
6 votesYou can categorize volunteers using a profile field picker, and then send email blasts to those volunteers.
Details here: https://www.trackitforward.com/content/send-email-blasts-your-volunteers
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View Events and Volunteer Shifts from a Calendar view
AT the moment volunteers have to open each event to see what time they are needed. What if these events were in a calendar view? Then they could automatically see what times to sign up for.
29 votesThe event sign up list now defaults as a calendar on a desktop computer. On a mobile or tablet device, it will show up as a list still
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