Version 10.1.0¶
- Release Date
November, 21th 2022
- Compatibility
iOS 12, iOS 13, iOS 14, iOS 15, iOS 16
iPadOS 13, iPadOS 14, iPadOS 15, iPadOS 16
macOS Big Sur, macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura (requires an Apple silicon CPU aka “M1”)
This release brings some better overview of your multiple district and will make exchanging contact information during international encounters more digital and modern.
What’s New¶
We were recently at the Europa Forum in Zagreb and while discussing ideas with other fellow Lions and seeing members constantly exchanging Lions business cards for the sole purpose of being able to contact new Lions friends afterwards, we came up with some new features for the LionsBase mobile application.
Menu
Search¶
The page to search for members has been turned into a “global search” within LionsBase. At the moment, this returns members and clubs based on your search criteria.
As such, the menu entry (and its symbol) has changed from “Find members” to “Search”:
Multiple District / Districts / Regions / Zones¶
The pages for the multiple district, the various districts, regions and zones have been enhanced to give you useful information right away:
Namely:
instead of a “Clubs” link, you read the number of clubs in the corresponding district, region or zone;
before even navigating to a district, a region or a zone, you see the number of clubs and members at the corresponding level of your organisation.
Profile Page¶
We slightly reworked how the Lions function [code] is presented. So instead of showing it after the name of the club (which was a bit odd), we now show it without any abbreviation on top of the name. This is best depicted with a screenshot:
Actual changes regarding handling of “titles”:
at the beginning of the menu, link to the profile only shows full name of the authenticated member, without any title;
(as depicted above) the header part of a profile page shows the Lions function, if any, or the academic title (prefix) otherwise; no title (suffix) such as “M.Sc.” is shown anymore in the header;
within the various properties, below, the titles (prefix/suffix) are shown.
Lions Business Card¶
When you open your personal profile page from the drawer menu:
You may now show your personal “Lions business card” as a QR-code to share with others, typically during (international) conferences when you tap the share icon, top right of your own profile:
This shows a QR-code embedding your business card that anyone may easily scan and add to their address book:
Following pieces of information are part of that Lions business card:
full name, incl. any Lions function code (PDG, …);
academic title, if any;
primary email address (the email address associated to the highest function you hold is used. If not available, it falls back to your primary email address);
private mobile phone number;
name of your district and club (incl. your club’s website);
your LCI ID;
link to download your official photo (it cannot be embedded right away due to length limitations with the QR specifications).
Edit: since Version 10.5.0, the photo is embedded as an URI in the QR code. That means that any modern smartphone should be able to download it transparently and display it in the address book.
Note
In theory we could include much more details but the idea is to stick to very important pieces of information instead of possibly sharing “too much”.
Other Changes¶
In addition, a few bugs have been squashed and minor enhancements integrated:
there was a “looping bug” when you went to some member’s profile, navigated to a sponsor and wanted to go back: you would be looping back to the sponsor. This is now fixed and you go “back” to the search form as expected (this is actually the most sensible behaviour when you think about it and the possible implications of having another way of behaving);
we removed the “bookmark icon” in the toolbar (see version 9.0) when you show your own profile as it makes no sense in that context;
the news pointing to the latest release notes after an upgrade of the mobile application will now point to the Dutch version if needed (work in progress);
Dutch translations have been double-checked and enhanced; many thanks to Jean-Luc, from Belgium;
various internal libraries have been upgraded.
Note
Using Android? Please see corresponding release notes.