News¶

• The news are now presented vertically, just as in your favourite news or social application.

• The layout has been updated as well, you now see the single-line teaser, the author and the date of the publication. In addition, if the news is properly linked to a Lions (or LEO) member, then her photo will be shown as well.

Hint

The link to the member is created automatically for new news (article) records. For older ones, you may edit the news record and create the author link manually:

Exchange of Information¶

Honestly? This is nuts!

As you certainly know, two multiple districts are currently using LionsBase, namely MD 102 (Switzerland/Liechtenstein) and MD 114 (Austria). Members of both countries are successfully using this mobile application. Guess what? for a very long time we naturally thought that it would be terrific to be able to get information about clubs in the other country and look for contacts just as we do daily (ok, or weekly) for Lions and LEO members in our own country.

Clubs¶

The list of clubs and associated information is public (website, …), as such there is nothing special to do to show foreign clubs. Tap the top right filter icon and then one of the country flag:

Members¶

The main issue was being allowed to share information across the border. Some time ago, governors from Switzerland and Austria met and discussed how clubs in the western side of Austria could more easily get in touch with their Swiss neighbor friends from the easterly side of Switzerland. We thought about it, refreshing what was partly imagined already and came up with a very good solution.

GDPR. You certainly know that it stands for General Data Protection Regulation and is already in effect in Europe, thus Austria. But in Switzerland as well we do take privacy and data protection seriously. As such, we are pleased to announce that exchange of information between Switzerland/Liechtenstein and Austria is not automatic.

The rule is straightforward: if you want to get access to member data in other countries, you need to share your own profile. Do not worry! We do not ask you to share everything about you, but what is considered “basic Lions information” such as, your name, your photo, your club and your Lions history.

Hint

IMPORTANT: Exchange of information is totally free to enable and denied by default. We hope that you will gladly accept to share basic information about you (after all the LCI organisation in US already provides your name and club membership to any Lions member in the world). But if you prefer to stay invisible from foreign Lions members, that is totally fine!

How does it work? Open the Settings (from the drawer menu), Tap on “Data protection and exchange” and follow the 1-step to agree to share your basic profile information with foreign Lions members.

After agreeing to share your basic profile information, you will be able to selectively choose other pieces of information you allow to be exchanged. Examples are email address, phone number, business information and so on.

Social Networks¶

Slack is replacing Google+ for our LionsBase community. This means that support for Slack has been added in the list of supported social networks.

Please note that you should not take care of managing this additional social network. Instead, when starting to use it, your Lions profile will automatically be extended with your Slack ID.

This change naturally leads to:

Lists of Members¶

The various lists of members now feature a small dot as an overlay of the photo to show the activity of the corresponding member in the mobile application:

• Green: High activity;

• Orange: Medium activity;

• Red: Low activity;

• Black: Not using the mobile application at all.

Accessibility¶

We streamlined support for Dynamic Type; that is, adjusting the font to your preferred reading size.

In addition, some adjustments ensure that this application is now better-suited at being used by visually impaired persons:

• by default, VoiceOver will describe each and every piece of information (label, images, …). Typically some images do not convey any real mean and should better be “invisible” than being described. Rationale is that the text next to them often carries more information. As a result, we deactivated some of these images;

• accessibility for the news articles on dashboard has been improved;

• accessibility for the detail of an event and associated registration has been improved;

• accessibility to access social networks of a club or a member has been improved.