A new release was pushed in over the weekend. Highlights are:

1. You can now send League and Team Emails directly from the League and Team Detail pages

2. The Announcements module on the Community portal now supports unlimited text/content

There was previously a limitation of 1000 characters on announcements and this sometimes led to content being truncated towards the end of the text.

3. The HTML/Text ...

We implemented a release over the weekend that now allows customers to make Wait Listing on programs optional. There is a new check box on the Program Detail page to toggle Wait Listing on/off and it is enabled (checked) by default.

Also, some minor bug fixes:

• Fixed In House registrations appearing twice on Dashboard. These are now partitioned out by In House (Walk In) and In House (Mail In).
• Fixed issue with line-breaks not being recognized properly on display of Program and Facility ...

We rolled out a usability release today that that brings more attention to those programs that currently have individuals on the Wait List. Several of our customers mentioned that it wasn’t always easy to tell which programs had people on the Wait List short of going to the Wait List tab for that particular program.

We’ve added the following new indicators/visual cues to shed more light on Wait Lists:

1. Program List – New Wait List badge that shows current Wait List ...

Marketing and promotion is becoming a much more important part of running recreation organizations of all sizes. Being able to quickly and easily target specific segments of your member population based on demographic characteristics or past program participation allows you to better reach out to the right people at the right time when promoting new programs or getting feedback on old ones.

We recognize this and one of the main goals for RecDesk this year is to build out ...

We rolled out a release last night that now allows you to specify past or future cut-off dates for Age Restriction calculations. Both the Min and Max Age properties of Programs now have an Enforce – Age As of Date that allows some flexibility as to how age is calculated for purposes of program participation. This works especially well for team sport activities.

If the calculated Age falls outside of the age limits, the result is:

1) In RecDesk Director – An ...

RecDesk now lets you to display an individual photo, a slideshow or video of your facilities in the RecDesk Community portal by allowing you to include “embed code” from popular photo/video sharing sites such as Google Picasa, Flickr, YouTube and more (see full list at Wikipedia- List of photo sharing sites).

These sites are dedicated to organizing and sharing photos (or in the case of YouTube – video) and can provide a superior user experience. In most instances, these services are ...

Some changes were implemented last night to further enhance both the viewing and setting of member Residency Status as well as email notification suppression on registration checkout.

1. Residency badges on Member Search List

2. Residency Status overrides

When adding new Member

Updating existing Member (view profile)

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PRESS RELEASE

Partnership enables all RecDesk agencies to leverage Strive, the free community engagement app by Slipstream, LLC.

Strive, the mobile community engagement platform from Slipstream, LLC, today announced that RecDesk, a web-based recreation management software firm, has rolled out the free community engagement app to its member agencies in 20 states and Canada, including recreation departments, park districts, community centers, schools and more.

Strive is a free mobile app that empowers organizations to build stronger relationships with their members by providing instant ...