You can add multiple awards for a volunteer by editing their user record in Admin/User Management. Simply select the award and enter the date awarded in the Awards fields. There is a Use Case demonstrating this process here.

The Roll of Honour pages, which are available on the About and Members menus, display a list of volunteers who have been received awards.

You can switch on a Roll of Honour page in Admin/Page Management.

The Roll of Honour module can also be customised. Learn more here.

Once you've added awards to your volunteer user records, the highest award medal will be displayed in Team Lists if the user record uses the standard adult profile picture. If they have a profile photo uploaded, it will continue to show that photo.

On any of the Team List modules displayed on your website, visitors can click on the user's profile image or name to view more details.

The user's details will include the badges for their awards.

The lists of news stories displayed on your website have been replaced with a News List module.

This module lets you customise the appearance of news lists. For more details, click here.

The News List module lets you specify which types of news story are displayed by ticking/un-ticking the Story Types.

For example, you could choose to show only Trustee Board news stories on your Trustee Board's page. Instructions for this can be found here.

You can now show news stories from other local Scout Groups and Districts within the news lists on your website.

District and County websites can include news stories from any of their groups that have a Scouts Online package 3 website. Counties can also show news stories from any of their Districts that have a Scouts Online package 2 website.

These news stories are added to the news lists in real-time, directly from data on their source websites. See here for more details.

More news types, such as 'Hall', 'Campsite' and 'Leadership Team', are now available to help to showcase specific categories of news stories on your own pages.

You can select multiple 'Scopes' for a news story when creating it, to ensure that the story is shown in all applicable lists. For more details, click here.

If you want an additional news type to use for a specific purpose, please Contact Us.

In addition to attaching images to display on a news story, you can now also add other file types E.g. pdf or docx). When the story is displayed, viewer can click on the files to open them in a new browser tab.

You can now change the layout of individual stories to better suit the text and images. To learn how to change the layout, click here.

The available layouts are depicted below:

"Scouts - Embedded Header Images"

"Scouts - Separate Header Images"

"Classic - Embedded header Images"

"Classic - Separate Header Images"

You can now create news stories specific to individual teams (E.g. Trustee Board, Leadership Team, etc.). News List modules have been added to the 2024 members team pages to show these stories.

For Districts and Counties: Why not empower your Team Leaders by making them website Content Contributors, so they can create their own stories and events/meetings? For more information, click here.

For District or County websites that have any groups with a Scouts Online package 3 website, you can modify your Group Details page (which appears when a visitor clicks the [More Details] link for a specific group on the 'Groups' page) to display news directly from that group's website.

To enable this feature, a Site Admin user can login, open a Group Details page and switch on the 'Group Details News Panel'. For more information about activating hidden feature panels, click here.

If an image added to a news story has a Name set in the File Manager, the name will appear as the title for that image inside within the news story. To learn how to set the name form an image, see here.

If your website uses a domain name similar to YourGroup.scoutsonline.co.uk, you may have noticed that HTTPS security has been added.

When someone completes a contact form on your website, an automated 'auto-reply' message can be sent to the person who completed the form.

Additionally, each contact form module can now be customised to include the details entered on the contact form within that auto-reply email.

To change the Contact Form module on one of your web pages, see here.

A copy of NAN forms is sent to the Group's Lead Volunteer. To ensure this happens, functionality has been added to pre-populate (and then hide) the GLV Email Address field using details held for the selected group. This applies to nights away events for Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts.

On County websites, the DLV will be pre-selected, if set within the website.

Additionally, the following changes have been made:

• The list of groups has been sorted
• On group websites, the group name field will be pre-selected
• The Section drop-down-list now only shows the sections that the group has

Two new contact form template types have been introduced to help you gather Trustee Nominations and Trustee Applications before an AGM.

You can use the 'Trustee Nomination Form' and 'Trustee Application Form' form types on your own pages, or anywhere where a Contact Form module is displayed. To see how to change the Form Type see here.

As part of our ongoing improvements, the website software has been assessed and updated to reduce page loading times. These enhancements not only benefit website visitors but may also boost your search engine rankings.

The formatting of section meeting times in the list of sections for a group within the Admin pages has been updated to remove the seconds.

Contact form emails are sent to you through the Scouts Online email service, so simply clicking your email client's reply button will send the response back to the Scouts Online no reply mailbox, rather than to the person who submitted the form.

To enable you to respond directly to the person who filled in the form, a [Reply] button has been added to the top of the contact form emails. Clicking this button will open a new email with the 'To' and 'Subject' fields automatically filled in, ready for you to reply as required.

Since many of the new 2024 Scouting Roles logically match up with the new teams, a change has been made to automatically add users with certain roles to those teams, when the user is added in Admin/User Management. This ensures they are displayed in Team Lists across your website. For example:

• On a Group website, selecting the 'Group Lead Volunteer' role will result in the 'Group', 'Leadership Team' and 'Trustee Board' teams being ticked
• Selecting 'Beaver Team Member' will tick all the Beaver Colonies
• On a District or County website, selecting 'District Chair' will tick the 'Directory', 'Meet The Team' and 'Trustee Board' teams

We have expanded the image inventory in the Scouts Online Files with more branded images from scouts.org.uk.

To use these images in your events, news articles and website pages, you may choose images from the Scouts Online Files by navigating through the inventory folders.

Event times have been added to the Events List module on the About/What's On page.

The Members/Directory page has been updated to include the 2024 transformation teams and show the members within those teams.

If a District or County does not offer a specific section (e.g. Scout Active Support), the column for that section will no longer appear on the Groups page.

When a website visitor clicks 'More Details' for a group on the 'Groups' page, they will see detailed information of the group.

For groups with multiple colonies, packs, troops or units, the name of each 'pack' will be shown along with the meeting days and times.