Release Notes (Website: New cache owner dashboard) - July 6, 2020

[+Geocaching HQ 361]

Release Notes (Website: New cache owner dashboard) - July 6, 2020

 

We proudly present the new cache owner dashboard. With access to your geocache hiding stats, filters to quickly see if any geocaches need maintenance, detailed tables, and the latest activity on your hides, cache ownership online is easier than ever before.

 

This new dashboard keeps you up to date on your hides.

 

 

1. Access to quick stats
   The dashboard shows a summary of your total number of hides, logs, and Favorite points on your hides. You also get an overview of your hides by geocache type and quick links to your published, unpublished, and archived hides. 
    
2. Filters help you keep your hides maintained
   Quick filters notify you of Needs Maintenance logs, Reviewer Notes, and remind you of your disabled caches. Select a filter, review logs and messages, and easily take action right from the dashboard.
    
3. Latest activity feed on your hides, including pictures
   Selfies, smileys, and more: Quickly see the last 6 weeks of recent logs (maximum 100 logs), finder's photos, and Favorite points given to each of your hides in the activity feed.
    
4. Improved table views for your geocache hides and Events
    

Geocache hide tables

 

 

1. Toggle between your geocache hides & Events
   * By splitting geocaches and Events into separate tables, we can share more relevant hider data 
2. View & sort on number of Finds
3. View & sort on Favorite points awarded
4. View & sort on DNFs
5. View last 3 logs
6. View & sort on Last Maintained date 
7. Map your table of geocaches
8. The icon for “Needs Maintenance” will be displayed on geocaches with this attribute
9. Take quick action on your geocache from the overflow menu:
   * Edit
   * Upload images
   * Add geocache owner logs

 
Event hide tables

 

 

1. View & sort by number of Attended logs
2. View & sort by number of Will attend logs

 
Check on your hides and see the new cache owner dashboard here.
 
Erin (Oceansazul) is watching this thread to answer questions whenever possible.
 
Any posts in this thread should relate to features in this release. Comments unrelated to the release may be removed. Please direct unrelated comments to other appropriate threads. Thanks!

[+Viajero Perdido 874]

Pretty cool! 

 

Though I would think my (untouched) Community Celebration Event doesn't really need attention merely because there's a Reviewer Note from HQ.  I've got a year and a half to deal with that one. 

 

Second impression: wow, wow, wow.  I can see pictures people posted to their logs that I'd never noticed at the time. 

 

Edited July 6, 2020 by Viajero Perdido

[+Lynx Humble 437]

15 minutes ago, Geocaching HQ said:

(...)

3. Latest activity feed on your hides, including pictures
Selfies, smileys, and more: Quickly see the last 6 weeks of recent logs, finder's photos, and Favorite points given to each of your hides in the activity feed.
(..)

 

Hum there seems to be a maximum of 100 logs so I only see the last 8 days not 6 weeks (because I publish some recently)

 

6 minutes ago, Viajero Perdido said:

Pretty cool! 

 

Though I would think my (untouched) Community Celebration Event doesn't really need attention merely because there's a Reviewer Note from HQ.  I've got a year and a half to deal with that one. 

Yeah I have the same issue.

[+Viajero Perdido 874]

Is the "Nnn Favorite Points" number received or given?

[+Lynx Humble 437]

1 minute ago, Viajero Perdido said:

Is the "Nnn Favorite Points" number received or given?

Received

[Rock Chalk 247]

11 minutes ago, Lynx Humble said:

Hum there seems to be a maximum of 100 logs so I only see the last 8 days not 6 weeks (because I publish some recently)

 

The post is now updated to state the maximum of 100 logs.

[+Viajero Perdido 874]

1 minute ago, Lynx Humble said:

Received

 

It was, of course, an implied suggestion to add one word. 

[+3Hams&aRose 3]

Will a direct-link to the new CO Dashboard be added to the player account dashboard (https://www.geocaching.com/account/dashboard)?  At the moment, the only way to get there seems to be by using the above link in this Release Note or creating a new bookmark for (https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner).

[+TmdAndGG 339]

3 minutes ago, 3Hams&aRose said:

 At the moment, the only way to get there seems to be by using the above link in this Release Note or creating a new bookmark for (https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner).

If you press the Play button at the top of the Geocaching.com webpage, a list will pop up that includes a link to the new CO dashboard under "Cache Owner Dashboard".

[+3Hams&aRose 3]

4 minutes ago, TmdAndGG said:

If you press the Play button at the top of the Geocaching.com webpage, a list will pop up that includes a link to the new CO dashboard under "Cache Owner Dashboard".

Thank you!

[+MrPi3141 3]

It looks good! I like it!

[+cruccone 1]

Nice! Is there a way to sort on recent DNFs? That may suggest the cache needs attention, even without a N/M log.

[+ErewashPaddler 8]

38 minutes ago, TmdAndGG said:

If you press the Play button at the top of the Geocaching.com webpage, a list will pop up that includes a link to the new CO dashboard under "Cache Owner Dashboard".

First impressions are very positive - I can see that I would use this a lot. There could do with being a way to access it from the normal Dashboard, but pleased I can get to it from the Play drop-down menu.

[+HHL 657]

17 minutes ago, ErewashPaddler said:

There could do with being a way to access it from the normal Dashboard

Yes, the "Hides" link could be altered to open the new "Owned" dashboard.

[+uwezi 0]

My first impression:

👍 for the "Owner Dashboard" but why is the link hidden away under "Play"?

👎 for the "New Dashboard" - too little information on too much space and the information about "finds", "renewal date", "hides", "drafts", "FPs" from the top right corner in the "old dashboard" is hidden away/scattered all over the place.

[+terratin 344]

Me like a lot!

One comment (or maybe more. Currently looking around): I'd be tempted to click on my name or photo on the left side to get back to wherever I would end up there. Though the same doesn't do anything on the /my page either.

How do I get back to the owner dashboard from my dahsboard? I generally prefer not to use the Play button because it's two clicks to get somewhere.

[+HHL 657]

16 minutes ago, terratin said:

How do I get back to the owner dashboard from my dahsboard?

Alt-Left Arrow

Edited July 6, 2020 by HHL

[+-KROP- 18]

This is great but a while ago you took away the most useful tool for a CO - the ability to put a NM on our own caches. I still cannot work out why this was necessary. Please could you add this functionality back?

Edited July 6, 2020 by -KROP-

[+lee737 445]

Looks great - as we do like to routinely check on our caches, being able to sort by last maintenance is very handy....

 

[+Optimist on the run 53]

I like it, though there seems to be a bug with the maths with mine. 47+44=90?

Edit 7/7/20 - now fixed.
 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Optimist on the run
Fixed.

[+CAVinoGal 661]

I like the Owner Dashboard!  One point of confusion for me - the 3 most recent logs shown are the most recent on the left.  Since I read from left to right, my initial assumption was that the farthest to the right was the most recent...leading me to believe at first glance that all 6 of these caches have a find or maintenance as the most recent log.  In fact, the most recent contain a Write note and and 2 DNF's - not quite as rosy a picture as I thought!  Now that I know that's how it works, I'll try and remember, but it still seems the farthest to the right should be the most recent.

 

 

Other than that little annoyance, I like the new dashboard!

[+Max and 99 2153]

1 minute ago, CAVinoGal said:

I like the Owner Dashboard!  One point of confusion for me - the 3 most recent logs shown are the most recent on the left.  Since I read from left to right, my initial assumption was that the farthest to the right was the most recent...leading me to believe at first glance that all 6 of these caches have a find or maintenance as the most recent log.  In fact, the most recent contain a Write note and and 2 DNF's - not quite as rosy a picture as I thought!  Now that I know that's how it works, I'll try and remember, but it still seems the farthest to the right should be the most recent.

 

 

Other than that little annoyance, I like the new dashboard!

I assumed the first shown is the most recent, like I'd see on a cache page: most recent logs first. But I can see it going either way!

[+Viajero Perdido 874]

Troubles with the pop-up image viewer on my Android 6 tablet with huge screen resolution, Firefox, everything temporarily allowed in NoScript, cookiebot still blocked by firewall.  (EDIT: ditto on my low-res phone, same everything else. Ditto bypassing firewall allowing [yeck] cookiebot.)

 

For the first attempt only for each image, the pop-up only shows a thin slice of the top of the image. I have to fuss with it (tap tap bang, or going landscape/horizontal works) to make it display fully. Then it's really hard to make it go away with "x". What the heck?

 

At least I don't see layout issues like the unresolved ones with the dashboard.  ETA: images on the Dashboard have never been a problem with the same devices.

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Viajero Perdido

[+CAVinoGal 661]

2 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I assumed the first shown is the most recent, like I'd see on a cache page

Ahhh, that makes sense.  Now to just get my brain to remember that when I'm looking at those three icons....

[+HHL 657]

7 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I assumed the first shown is the most recent, like I'd see on a cache page: most recent logs first.

Yes, no one wants to scroll through hundreds of logs to get the most recent one.

Edited July 6, 2020 by HHL

[+Harry Dolphin 1168]

39 minutes ago, Optimist on the run said:

I like it, though there seems to be a bug with the maths with mine. 47+44=90?

 

I don't see that on my dashboard.

[+HHL 657]

5 minutes ago, Harry Dolphin said:

I don't see that on my dashboard.

Right, you can't. It's a specific dashboard with its own URL: https://www.geocaching.com/play/owner

 

[+Max and 99 2153]

I was having trouble locating the images shown in this thread, for my profile. When I rotated my device it appeared. 😀

I'm not ready to rate the new experience, even though I'm being asked to. 

 

Just curious: if I get a report from the Geocaching Doctor saying that my cache health might need attention: will that notification appear in this new dashboard experience? It seems like everything else is shown!

Edited July 6, 2020 by Max and 99

[+IceColdUK 1041]

I really like it.  Good job.

 

It would be nice if there were links from the Cache Types on the Dashboard to a filtered list on the Hides screen - to just show your Trads for example.  In fact, it would be nice if there were filters on the Hides screen, to allow you to filter by Cache Type or any of the other fields...

 

And when you hover over the Last 3 logs icons, it would be useful if they displayed not just the Log Type but the date, e.g. "Found It: 15/06/2020". 

Edited July 6, 2020 by IceColdUK
Added to my wishlist!

[+Slow Puncture (LJCC) 1]

Minor thing only - when looking at logs on your caches, it seems that every log where there are at least three lines have a "More v" link, whether there is more or not.

 

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Slow Puncture (LJCC)

[+Hügh 49]

Wow! This is looking amazing/useful. I do have some low-priority minor suggestions to the design of the dashboard.

 

1. Helpful links box - the first option in that box is to "hide a cache page". Perhaps language like "hide a new geocache" or "create new geocache listing" would be more appropriate.

 

 

2. Body padding - the screenshot below is a full-window screenshot on the latest version of Chrome. I assume that the page is supposed to have left- and right- padding values greater than zero (ie. "squished in" like all of the other pages)

 

EDIT: the "Unpublished hides" page has visible body padding on my laptop but not on my PC. Time to do some debugging.

 

 

3. First world problems - there are some additional minor inconsistencies that I feel unhappy about. However, I do recognise that the graphic design and front-end development teams are hard at work redesigning the Geocaching website, and so some issues just "aren't ones we can fix as easily as you might think."

• Breadcrumb (1) arrows (2) spacing (3) colours. 

 

                      

• The different casing patterns between "Recently Viewed Caches" and "Unpublished hides".
• Header inconsistency between the old/new pages.

-

 

This isn't to say, though, that I think the new dashboard is "terrible" - I will be using this! 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Hügh
Ironically, this forum post had some inconsistencies that NEEDED to be fixed.

[+pingurus 30]

Another small bug:

There is no need for a second (and third and so forth) page, if I only have 7 archived hides.

[+Goldenwattle 1657]

This is what I see.

[+Max and 99 2153]

5 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said:

This is what I see.

Well that's unexpected! 

[+Goldenwattle 1657]

9 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

Well that's unexpected! 

I'm not sure how to take that. A genuine comment or sarcasm. Am I doing something wrong? Others above are showing things on their dashboards, so why don't I see something.

[+Goldenwattle 1657]

Okay, I was clicking in the wrong place. Found it now.

 

Switched back to the old one.

Edited July 7, 2020 by Goldenwattle

[+Hügh 49]

Another minor issue - when on a mobile device, the “scroll to top” button doesn’t move with the viewport and instead intrudes on some text (and I assume logs if any show up.)
 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Hügh

[+IceColdUK 1041]

The Published Hides screen shows an absolute count of DNFs for each cache (which is interesting), however, for cache maintenance purposes, it would far more useful to show a count of DNFs since the last Found It / Owner Maintenance log.

 

Could this be added?

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by IceColdUK

[+Tungstène 117]

Could archived unpublished caches be visible on the dashboard too, please?

 

As for now, I can only see them if I visit this link : https://www.geocaching.com/my/geocaches.aspx?archived=y

 

[+fraggle_[DE] 50]

13 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

I assumed the first shown is the most recent, like I'd see on a cache page: most recent logs first. But I can see it going either way!

 

Maybe the most recent smiley could be a bit larger than the other ones (or the other way round: the less recent ones are smaller)? So everybody knows immediately which one is the newest, no matter which direction the smileys are.

[+sernikk 150]

I must say that I am impressed! Very good concept, and going through all cache logs is so much easier now.

I only hope that the button to the new Cache Owner Dashboard will be moved to a better, intuitive place, because now I struggled to find it.

 

I have some suggestions, maybe useful :

- while being for example in Published caches it would be nice to have an option to "jump" directly into Archived or Unpublished caches

- Maybe in the section "Helpful links" there could be added an option to go into Adoption webpage https://www.geocaching.com/adopt/

 

Anyways, good job!

 

 

 

[+Isonzo Karst 937]

Windows Firefox with or without scripts

 

• Columns on the page unpublished are sortable  by name, distance, placed date but NOT by status.  If a CO is working on a number of caches for publication,  status is important thing.  Please make this a sortable value.
• My Reviewer Note Unpublished pane shows 1.   Following that link goes to a submitted event. On the owner/unpublished page,  I see 2 physical caches that "need attention" and on the event tab, the 1 event.   The 2 physical caches were disabled by reviewer.  
• Published caches Reviewer note last 30 days,  shows two newly published caches? reviewer note at time of publication? As there's nothing a cache owner can do about archived reviewer notes, this is non-information.
• BUG minor issue, deep down on my fix list - can't log out from the unpublished page, pulldown box in upper right offers: Settings Help Center Sign Out. 

[+CAVinoGal 661]

19 hours ago, cruccone said:

Nice! Is there a way to sort on recent DNFs? That may suggest the cache needs attention, even without a N/M log.

 

6 hours ago, IceColdUK said:

The Published Hides screen shows an absolute count of DNFs for each cache (which is interesting), however, for cache maintenance purposes, it would far more useful to show a count of DNFs since the last Found It / Owner Maintenance log.

 

These two suggestions go hand in hand - seeing the absolute count of DNF's is, indeed, interesting, but really doesn't give a lot of information.  RECENT DNF's, especially if they are sequential, with no finds in between, would be more useful.

 

3 hours ago, fraggle_[DE] said:

 

Maybe the most recent smiley (or frownie, or whatever action it was) could be a bit larger than the other ones (or the other way round: the less recent ones are smaller)? So everybody knows immediately which one is the newest, no matter which direction the smileys are.

 

15 hours ago, IceColdUK said:

And when you hover over the Last 3 logs icons, it would be useful if they displayed not just the Log Type but the date, e.g. "Found It: 15/06/2020". 

 

I like IceColdUK's idea of the hover showing the date of the log as well as the type.  That would eliminate confusion as to the direction of the icons, and give the CO more information about the recent activity.  

 

Overall, I'm really liking the CO dashboard.  More informative than just the listing and having to click on each one to view the cache page to get additional information.  It can save me time because I can see, in some cases, the need (or not) to actually go to the cache page to make changes.  I like the sorting options (date placed, date last log, etc) and the ability to make some changes right from the dashboard.  Yeah, I'm liking the new dashboard!

[+CAVinoGal 661]

7 hours ago, Hügh said:

Another minor issue - when on a mobile device, the “scroll to top” button doesn’t move with the viewport and instead intrudes on some text (and I assume logs if any show up.)

 

I rarely view the website on my mobile device, but I tried it for this to see what happens.  The "scroll to top" doesn't appear for me until I have scrolled down into the actual logs, and it stays in place in the bottom right corner as I scroll further down.  So it does cover some text, but I can scroll to see what's "under" it.  Then it stays at the bottom of the log listing, even as I scroll down further to the bottom of the page and the legal  disclaimer links, Contact us and all that.  A few screenshots as I scroll the page on my mobile - 

 

               

 

But, I typically do not view my hides on a mobile, I do all my cache maintenance and updates on the computer/laptop.  

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by CAVinoGal

[+jasand+1 0]

What is the difference between ""Finds" and "Found logs"?

I understand , as I´ve seen above at one of the users , that "Finds" are higher than "Found logs" (as logging and finding same cache twice).

I dont get it "Finds" being higher than "Found logs". As in my case...

Greetings, Andrej

 

[+HHL 657]

1 minute ago, jasand+1 said:

What is the difference between ""Finds" and "Found logs"?

2490 on top right are your finds.

2419 Found logs are logs from others on your caches.

 

Hans

[+Twin8 0]

Why is there a max of 100 logs? Would it lag out the page too much to display more? If so, could a 'next page' button be added at the bottom of the first 100 logs?

[+Viajero Perdido 874]

42 minutes ago, HHL said:

2419 Found logs are logs from others on your caches.

 

Clarity needed please.  Three extra words:

On your caches:

2,419 found logs

112 Favorite points

[+HHL 657]

5 minutes ago, Viajero Perdido said:

Clarity needed please

The star icon (indicating an owned cache) is not clear enough? Pff

 

Hans

[+ardila.nl 46]

I like it a lot.

I went to check it out and right away I found one of our caches that we did maintenance on after it was gone but forgot to place a maintenance log for after we replaced it.

 

Are there any plans to add a "thin/light" version of this in the official app?

For doing disabling a cache when someone reports that it's gone or looking up my own cache details if someone asks for more info about something