The latest BowlsLink update is now available for Club Administrators. This release contains several improvements and upgrades to BowlsLink with 38 changes occurring from minor fixes to some more significant developments that should improve user and administrator experience within the system.
A significant improvement has occurred within the Competition area for both Competition administrators and BowlsLink users in adding teams or team mates to competitions.
Previously members could only be added to competitions via the National Identification Number (NIN) which was often a difficult process as these are not widely known by individuals or administrators.
The new process will allow a member to be wildcard searched by surname and if needed club to find them from the BowlsLink database and entered into the Competition. It is worth noting that upon being selected the person will still need to meet any criteria of the Competition such as participation type, financial status, age, gender, club, league, region or district and state eligibility.
In conjunction with this change the system will however block any critical member information such as Address, DOB, email and phone which has the potential to be misused from displaying to any other competitor adhering to the strict privacy principles of our sport. Administrators will be able to see contact information (email and mobile) only.
Other changes worth highlighting include the ability to directly email BowlsLink Club Administrators through the Email Campaigns area. This is something Bowls Australia will soon be using to provide more direct information to administrators in BowlsLink about system updates, case studies, along with webinars, training and support information.
Bowls Australia BowlsLink Manager highlights these changes and others in the BowlsLink v1.33 Release video.
Bowls Australia encourages clubs to get in touch with their Club Support Managers for help on how these new features might help your club.
Club Administrators and BowlsLink users can also find training and support materials at two websites.
Bowls Australia E-Learn Website
A reminder to club administrators that if you are experiencing a blank screen or issues with buttons not working to perform a refresh (Control and R) before contacting support.
For any further help please contact Bowls Australia BowlsLink staff via bowlslink@bowls.com.au for any other queries around this release or BowlsLink in general.
BowlsLink v1.33 Dec 2024 Release Notes #
The items covered below have been released to BowlsLink over several stages since Release v1.32 August 2024 with the final release of items being Monday December 2nd.
Competitions #
Linking players/attendees to members for both Competition entries and Event bookings.
Add support for hyperlinks in Competition and Event descriptions.
Email #
Add both a member’s NIN (merge field) and a club admin flag (Membership segment) to data being sent to Campaign Monitor.
Add position to Campaign Monitor member syncing.
Finance #
Develop club fees and pro-rata members report for MYOB.
Live Scoring App #
Adding support for finals series in scoring app.
Membership #
Improvements and fixes to memberships (based on user feedback).
- Improve syncing between financial-to dates and memberships
- Adding new membership will no longer revoke existing membership
- Archived members active memberships become revoked or cancelled if pending payment
- Other minor improvements
Reports #
Configurable Club Membership Numbers includes Participation (Club Groups only)
Configurable Club Membership Participation Report (Club Groups only)
Gender-related functions around entries and bookings re-introduced (field has been returned to screens and reports based on STA feedback).
Results Portal #
Identify substitute players in teams.
Live scored matches in finals series now displaying in LIVE tab.
Security & Privacy #
Remove display of PII (Personal Identification Information) fields for linked Competition entrants and Event attendees.
System #
Miscellaneous performance improvements.
Bugs & Fixes #
Sorting certifications by date obtained causes error. Fixed.
Overlapping club-position appointment check incorrectly discarding time component of dates. Fixed.
Club position flags sent to Campaign Monitor should exclude historic appointments. Fixed.
Personal information can be leaked between accounts having the same NIN. Fixed.
Entry metadata (Entrant/Entry additional details) not being copied along with Competition. Fixed.
2FA can be bypassed when enabled without an authentication factor selected. Fixed.
Pagination not working on approved transfers listing. Fixed.
Scoring app no longer displaying skip names. Fixed.
Team selection and spanner icon not appearing when entering results for a Sides match as a member. Fixed.
Some activity logs related to entries were erroring out when being displayed. Fixed.
Able to delete a club member profile with effective memberships. Fixed.
Dual club associations report (Archived members no longer appearing in report).
Supplemental organising bodies for events (display bug fixed).
Membership type members count not accurate when clicking through to members listing. Fixed.
Archived members incorrectly appearing in the dual club associations report. Fixed.
Start date filter for competitions not working. Fixed.
End-of-match scoring not working as expected in scoring app. Fixed.
Pre-set membership type renewal periods not displaying when custom renewal period is set. Fixed.
Ends not showing in scoring app. Fixed.
Club Member Numbers report timing-out for all States but ACT and NT. Fixed.
Rookie-roller incorrectly spelled as “rockie-roller”. Fixed.