Branch Hours Alert Feature

Currently, Branch Home Pages have Branch Hours displayed in a grid underneath the location information, and changes have to be made by The Idea House. We can now give control to the Y Admin level to create Alerts and Notifications to make changes to the regular hours due to Holidays, Emergencies, etc, through a new tab in the Admin called Branch Hours-Alerts.

This functions similarly to the main Home Page Alert feature which is for Association-wide use. Admin users will be able to specify a Title, Message, and an Expiration Date for their notification. It is also Branch-specific; separate Alerts can be set up for different branches. The Alerts appear on the Branch Home page just below the current hours.

"Watch Dog" helps you keep tabs on your site's schedule

Watch Dog is a maintenance tool for CSTwo Admins to find and repair "Dead-End" classes that have no online schedule.

CSTwo delivers a huge amount of schedule information to visitors through an easy to navigate interface. The schedule is easy to manage because you can enable hundreds of people in your association to contribute and maintain it. As time goes by, classes end and sessions drop from the schedule. If new sessions aren't added, visitors arrive at a dead-end page with no schedule information available.

Watchdog gives you a full report of all of these dead-end classes and gives you links to address the problem. For each dead-end class you can :

• View the page as visitors see it
• Immediately schedule a new session
• View the full history of the class
• Hide the class from the schedule so that visitors no longer reach a dead-end
• Assign the class to someone else by sending them an email asking them to fix it.

eTOPS Notes Column

The Notes Column in the eTOPS schedule can hold up to 170 characters and is a great place for extra information about individual Sessions. From specifying actual off-Branch locations to reminders to bring a bathing suit, specific information can now be easily entered and found without members having to call or email.

Mobile Site

CSTwo now has a Mobile version that allows consumers to take the Y with them. Members can get caught up on the latest happenings at branches or find the perfect exercise class...anytime, anywhere. The Mobile Site is automatically displayed to smart-phones in a format that is easy to navigate. Visitors can access program schedules, dates, times, individual branch news, and lots more—all in the palm of their hand. Best of all, the mobile site uses the same information displayed on the main site, so there is no additional data to manage.

UPDATE-Ability to Filter AND Sort Sessions

eTOPS has recently been updated for all new CSTwo sites to allow a user to both Filter and Sort all Sessions in a Class. They can now narrow down Sessions by Branch and then sort by date, time, or day of week.

Small Fix for “Branch Specific” Programs today - Faux Categories

There was a small bug-fix implemented today. 

The new 2011 version of Peashooter allows the placement of virtual, or faux, categories. With this feature, a category such as 'Water Fitness' can appear in both the Swim and Fitness areas but the schedule only has to be maintained once.

While these "faux categories" displayed as intended from the primary navigation, they were not being shown on Branch-Specific program lists. The main categories were shown correctly.

We have implemented a patch that includes these new 'virtual categories' on the branch-specific list of programs and that can be reached from branch home pages.

Branch “Hot Button” Calendar

Google Calendars is an effective way to keep track of everything going on in a Y. We can add a customized version for each branch, and locate it on the Branch News Page. Individuals at the YMCA control all of the information, and because it is a calendar, you do not have to remember to go in and delete events once the dates pass.

Locations Icon Drop Down Menu

The Locations icon takes the user to the Locations Map. With the drop down menu on this icon, the user has the choice of going directly to their branch, or to the static map page.

Child Care Bulleted Lists

Similar Child Care Categories can now be stacked under one common description and separated with bullets. All of the maps function the same way they did before.

Translate Button

A Translation Button can be added to the site. This feature will translate every page into the selected language (over 60 languages).