[Chapter-delegates] Persistent problems with new membership system

[sivasubramanian muthusamy]

We wanted to do something similar, I set up a Google form to ask for
certain details such as affiliations to other organizations and the name of
the organization the applicant works for.  These details were asked for
from the pending applicants, some of whom were willing to fill up the
expanded Google form.  We had the same difficulty adding them as members,
we managed to do that once, but if there is some way AMS could provide the
facility for Chapters to take over the design of the forms after "Join a
Chapter" =>  "ISOC NY" (chosen) by the Global Member.  The ISOC NY / ISOC
Chennai form, if any, has to be designed by the respective Chapter and the
data integrated into AMS Chapter data, with the Chapter's choice of
necessary 'buttons' such as "approve all" "archive" etc... Or, the Chapter
form could be external as you have designed, with the functionality in AMS
to locate and select multiple records by a bulk input of externally
approved names, and bulk approve in the AMS.

The issues I have raised earlier about migration still remain unresolved.
We have lost all old records.

Sivasubramanian M


Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
twitter.com/shivaindia


On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 6:19 AM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> This is a different issue to the one I raised in the attached thread, so I
> have snipped that.
>
> I am not sure if this will help you, Siva, but I have learnt that, rather
> than being distracted by the "pending membership applications" section with
> it's attractive red number - one is way better off going to bottom of the
> dashboard to "manage subscriptions" - there is better functionality there.
>
> The problem I have on A11ySIG is that we have a separate registration
> form. I find that if I then take applicants and manually add them as
> members, while the AMS will recognize that they are already a global
> member, if they have a pending application in the AMS that status is
> unaltered. Thus while I have already added them manually, I then have to
> search the pending members and "approve" to take them of the pending list.
> Which is a PITA (technical term).
>
> Our SIG president M. Shabbir, promised to raise this at the current ChAC
> meeting.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:58 AM sivasubramanian muthusamy via
> Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> To manage the Chennai Chapter membership applicants, I log into AMS
>> periodically to find an accumulation of 50 - 100 applicants, (at the moment
>> it is 156 members, the list shows Name, email, and city (if disclosed) and
>> beyond that, to assess the relevance of the application, each name has to
>> clicked on one by one (which would take about 6 hours every time), and to
>> go to the next name, it requires to go back to the list, which if a sorted
>> list, does not automatically reappear sorted, so there are multiple steps
>> involved in going to the next name on the sorted list. In the case of
>> Chennai, the number of applicants from this relevant geographical region is
>> 21 out of a total of 156, but in the sorted mode, all or most of the 21 can
>> be selected, but there is no "approve" button. Applicants have to be
>> approved one by one, and after every name, the remaining list of names can
>> be accessed after repeating the process of specifying "more filters".
>>
>> The limits on the functionality of AMS has been discussed over and over
>> again, now we have a new membership with the same limitations. Why is it
>> difficult to "approve" as a bulk action in the sorted mode?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>> Internet Society India Chennai.
>> twitter.com/shivaindia
>>
>>
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