Version 8.0.0¶
- Release Date
January, 11th 2021
- Compatibility
iOS 12, iOS 13, iOS 14, iPadOS 13, iPadOS 14
This release is packed with many new features:
show the history of a given function (list of former club presidents, …);
share interesting news from sources you follow to your own club;
show member profile pages even quicker;
and more.
What’s New¶
Menu
Committee¶
When you show a club, zone, region committee, a district cabinet or the council of governors, you may now long tap a given function and access the list of other members having held the corresponding position; e.g., the list of former club presidents:
Press the action “Show list of…” to discover which members had that function in the history of the club, the zone, …
Hint
Trying to show the history of former Council Chairpersons redirects you to the list of former National Conventions instead, as that page conveys more information than a simple list of members.
Note
When you access the committee (or cabinet/council of governors) of a zone, region, district or multiple district, you may be presented with additional functions whose level is different. For example the committee of a zone shows both zone-related functions such as the Zone Chairperson or the 1st Vice Zone Chairperson, but club-related functions as well with the various Club Presidents.
In such case, the action to show the history of a given function is disabled for functions from other levels (in our example, the club presidents).
News¶
First of all, we have figured out that the list of news was not getting refreshed regularly. This is now fixed so that you will not miss interesting articles if you often keep the LionsBase mobile application stay in background.
From the dashboard, when you open a news article, the share icon top right now features an option to share that news article to your own club:
Once shared, news can be managed as usual by the webmaster from within the LionsBase Backend. It is worth mentioning that for the time being, shared news are only visible in the mobile application but not on your club website.
Since it may not be obvious for everyone to understand the purpose of sharing a news to your fellow club members, let us describe the idea.
By default, a user will be automatically subscribed to news articles originating from their club, clubs in their zone and news articles from higher levels such as the district and the multiple district. It is very common for some users to subscribe to additional sources of news articles. In that context, you may have access to articles other members of your club are not seeing in their own feed. Sharing a news is thus two-fold: on one hand it lets you broaden your member’s view with other interesting articles and on the other hand it lets you create a tighten network between clubs.
Hint
In order to let you share a news article, LionsBase checks that you are a webmaster of the corresponding club.
If you are webmaster of different clubs, you will be able to share to any of them.
This may be extended any time, e.g., so that members with function “Club Communication Delegate” are granted access to sharing news article as well.
Note
This feature will be available to Austrian members after the migration to the newer version of TYPO3 has been completed; many thanks for your understanding.
Responsiveness¶
The application is now much more responsive when you tap a member to open their profile page.
This was made possible by removing a visual effect introduced in the Version 6.2.0. That visual effect became useless due to updates to underlying framework libraries. Moreover, in most cases, the profile information of the member you want to show is already locally available and as such there is no need to wait at all.
Other Changes¶
In addition, a few bugs have been squashed and minor enhancements integrated:
similarly to any list showing committee members, you may now tap on a Council Chairperson in the list of conventions to open the member’s profile page;
the list of clubs is now better accessible for the visually impaired;
we changed the color of the text “registration is closed” in the list of upcoming events from red to a dark orange; rationale is that some members wrongly thought they were not attending the corresponding event while seeing something “red”; we naturally hope this will enhance their user experience while in the end not changing anything for the other users;
various internal libraries have been upgraded.
Note
Using Android? Please see corresponding release notes.
Social Activities¶
The icon for accessing the list of social activities has been changed (on the left side, the lifebuoy symbol used since version 5.3 and on the right the new circled star symbol):
Is it just a cosmetic change? Actually no! We took the opportunity to introduce icons based on the type/category of the social activity. This both better shows at a glance the distribution of your social activities and lets you quickly spot possible incorrect categorisation:
Overview of the social activity icons¶