Our members love the ability to register guests for events. However when an event is members only, when members register guests, there is no member look-up or verification that the guest being registered is also a member.

I know I can restrict the event so guests cannot be registered, but this feature is really helpful for our couples that share an email --- one can register both of them under the same email when using the guest registration option. And when a member wants to pay for multiple attendees on line in one transaction, they can do that this way.

So currently we have to manually look up all guests to make sure they are actually members when registered for member events.

I would like the system to verify membership for guests when an event is designated Members Only.

Alternatively, perhaps a new category of guest can be created such as "register another member" vs. register a guest. The terminology "guest" is confusing when used in conjunction with a members only event, since members sometimes assume that means a non-member guest is OK.

The subscription pages are a good idea, but once contacts sign up, they can't edit which topics/types of e-blasts they subscribe too. They can only unsubscribe from all manual emails.

In my organization, we have six monthly newsletters on different topics. In the past, we have used Constant Contact lists to manage this - people can always edit which of our lists they subscribe to. If they are tired of the Foreclosure newsletters but still want the Microenterprise newsletters, they can customize that. In WA, if they are tired of Foreclosure emails, it looks like they have to unsubscribe from EVERYTHING (and then maybe re-subscribe to the lists they are still interested in?).

We are working around this by avoiding subscription pages altogether and using a common field for "email interests" that contacts can edit in their profiles, but this is not intuitive and easy for them and I worry about disrespecting their contact preferences.

I would like the Email Subscriptions page of a contact's member profile to allow a broken-down list of customized subscriptions, rather than just the "e-Newsletters and email blasts" option. For example, our contacts would be able to toggle Event Notifications, All email blasts, forum posts AND the 6 "email interests" we offer.

More discussion of this problem can be found on this thread: http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308929-general-discussion-and-questions/suggestions/8822887-unsubscribe-from-a-newsletter .

Thanks!

We are a new user and have uploaded the member lists from data in our desktop database. Now we need to be sure that all our users have reset their passwords (senior group, some with limited computer skills).

We did find a way to see everyone who had logged in at least once. Admin area > Members > Advanced Search criteria: Last login date. This suited our situation because if they were able to login, that meant they had reset their passwords.

What we couldn’t get, however, was a search list of those who had never logged in. We worked around it by creating a Logged In = Yes or No field and populated it with yes for those who had logged in, then created search on No to find the others. Doable, but requires manual manipulation to keep it up to date.

One solution is to have 'Never logged in’ and ‘Not logged in as of <date>’ in the search criteria choices.

Even better would be a general search feature that excludes the searched records. You have AND & OR - it would be nice to have NOT for all searches.

Currently a menu item has to be a WA object (content page, event listing, forum, etc.). If I want to link to an external website (your national organization for example) or even a specific event registration page as a menu item, you have to create an empty content page and use JavaScript and/or a meta tag redirect to send the user on (See this help page for additional detail: http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Redirecting+a+page ).

It would be great if you could enter a url for the menu item rather than this kludgey redirect process. This could also be accomplished through implementing a http 301 redirect that has been proposed to in some other posts, but again this is a somewhat kludgey solution.

-Ben

After discussion with the WA team, it appears that for websites powered by WordPress, there is currently no way to customize the single sign-on screen once a user chooses to log in via the Wild Apricot plugin functionality. The page as it is now is devoid of almost any styling (screenshot from the WA video example attached), and particularly in the case of websites with a prominent design, in my opinion this takes away from the user experience, making the login process a lot less "seamless" than it otherwise could be (if the option to customize the page look and feel with CSS, etc. were available). Hopefully this option will be available soon.

Slack https://slack.com is taking the world by storm on community building. You may have heard of how easy it is to participate in a real time discussion, with easy to use collab tools. It's killing email, they say.

Slack has OAuth v2 support. Wild Apricot has Oauth support. How about single signon support for Slack from WA?

This would make it really easy to add collab groups to an existing WA community and extend Wild Apricot's functionality to run meetings, projects and other collaborative, geographically distributed projects all through Slack.

Why not? Please +1 this if you think this is a good idea.

Improving the process of restricting/allowing access to 1 screen.

Currently it is a complex process that often results in unanticipated results . . . or inability to properly configure that ultimately requires technical support. The process is not intuitive.

It is not easy to manage access to a gadget by membership level and/or group when a gadget is on a page that may or may not be restricted by membership level and/or group.

Allow setting permissions and access by membership levels and/or groups for pages, and for certain gadgets on one page. And make the selections obvious and intuitive so conflicting options can not be selected. Where options and/or conflicts exist the user should be presented with appropriate feedback for making informed selections E.g. Error messages or tips or tutorials or helpful information.

It would be very helpful to be able to add a common field which can be changed only by the administrator, but still be seen by non-members or members (depending on what options have been selected under common fields). This way a rating could be input by the administrator, without being accessable by the member, but still be viewable by anyone.

For example the admin adds a new common field called 'Ratings' - Options set at 'for administrator access/input only' - Others access set at 'Anybody'- this would allow the administrator to manually add a rating to a member as such:

Rating: 5/5 Star Rating (1 vote)

(Common field name: input by admin)

Is this possible at all???

i would also like to pile onto this suggestion. A functional page or gadget within a page that would announce new albums or new album content would make this feature much more compelling IMO.

In fact a widget that generally announced membership directory events would be very useful, for example:

- John Doe has joined the organization

- Bob Smith has a new email address (assuming that he has made it public), new job, etc

- Karen Jones is now a life member

- Chris White has created a photo album named Spring Convention photos with 10 images

- Alex Black has added 5 photos to her New Building Construction album

etc