Version 51

Highlights

Cross-band scheduling blocks (ZONE-2318)

A long-awaited feature for all of you using BANDZONE in more than one band:

From now on, event confirmations for (non-canceled) events in one band will automatically be displayed as absences in other bands you’re also part of.

Absences triggered by the currently active band will NOT be shown as absences in the views of that band. After all, in the current band, these are regular events / event confirmations—not absences... 🙂

In your personal absences view, the new band-specific absences will appear in blue, while absences you’ve created yourself remain in red. Only the ones you created manually can be edited. Band-specific absences are created and deleted automatically, depending on the event status and your confirmation for the event.

Additionally, band-specific absences have already been created for all existing, future, non-canceled events you’ve confirmed.

If you have any questions or feedback about this new feature, feel free to reach out to support@band.zone.

PDF setlists (ZONE-3018)

It’s finally here: from now on, you can create your setlists flexibly using (almost) all saved song details and save them directly as a PDF!

Whether it’s a setlist with large, easy-to-read text for the stage, an offline version for your own reference, a compact cue list with essential info for FoH, or something in between or completely outside the box: almost anything is possible. The layout can be customized, visually checked via the preview, and adjusted as needed.

A feature for saving different layout templates is already in the works.

You’ll find the PDF configurator prominently placed at the top of the download section for any setlist.

Sort song ratings by "Rated best" (ZONE-2046)

It’s now even simpler to cherry-pick your top songs in the song rating bar chart (yes, that’s kind of a word!... ;) ). Just click the sort button, and voilà—everything is neatly arranged from "Hot"/Heart to "Cold"/Veto. You’ll find the calculated rating numbers in each song row as soon as you sort by rating.

Important to Know:

We haven’t applied a linear point distribution but have instead distinctly separated the two positive ratings from the negative ones. In our test runs, this led to a weighting system that encourages as few band members as possible to choose one of the two negative ratings—because, after all, the goal is for everyone to have as much fun as possible! 🤘
Any missing ratings are calculated using the average of the votes already cast. So, if you haven't voted yet, consider this a little nudge—because otherwise, you're just "average"... and who wants that? 🤠👹🤡🤩😎

Other

Add setlists as searchable item (ZONE-2777)
Make band mate overview more compact and additional links more visible (ZONE-2842)
Make date column of tabular availability overview more compact on mobile and move weekday to the start (ZONE-2843)
Let the "exclamation calendar" for "feedback needed" disappear once all feedback has been provided (ZONE-2856)
Show the event names in the tabular view (ZONE-2886)
Do not let a bandmate be shown in the tabular event list if the band mate has "not needed" set for all displayed events (ZONE-2888)
Only let band admins edit the band (ZONE-2902)
Add the user account actions to the overlay navigation (ZONE-2910)
Place the option for a linked venue above the individual venue data (ZONE-3105)
Add option to capitalize song names in setlist pdfs (ZONE-3188)
Add option to change the vertical spacing in setlist pdfs (ZONE-3189)
Add possibility to hide the set number and runtime in setlist pdfs (ZONE-3190)
Profile pictures for band bandmates (ZONE-2346)
Show names of band bandmates on click (as tooltip) rather only on hover in absences view (ZONE-2367)
Let the "All"-filter only show not-cancelled events & not-archived songs (ZONE-2385)
Change initial link of band.zone domain to register link instead of login (ZONE-2926)
Let users also login via registration form (ZONE-3024)
After (regular) logout redirect to login rather than the root (ZONE-2932)
Logout from the user settings overlay should also invoke the confirmation overlay (ZONE-2933)
Show "Mail to all" as button in bandmate list (ZONE-2959)
Change /file/ID/download view to show the file name as main headline and "File" as pre-headline (ZONE-2964)
Let register and login be a "tab-interface" (ZONE-2992)
Let file names be searchable (ZONE-3014)
Let files also be found via own custom name instead of only the file name (ZONE-3046)
For calendar subscriptions additionally use ascii icons / short symbols for the status before the event name (ZONE-3015)
Add special Guitar tunings as separate instruments (ZONE-3183)
Add 4 / 5 / 6 String Basses as separate instruments (ZONE-3184)
Add Drop D Bass as separate instrument (ZONE-3256)
In date picker do not mark current event date as "blocked" but rather in green as "current event date" (ZONE-3234)

Bugs fixed

Setlist "show" cannot be scrolled when click/hold on a song (ZONE-2499)
Exclude bandmate with "needed_for_events_default" = false from "auto-required" mechanism, if "the whole band" is set as owner (ZONE-3168)
bz-content-header-sticky (for tabular availabilities) does not align with other headers (ZONE-2769)
Participation overlay in tabular view does not completely cover the table (ZONE-2798)
In rare cases the change in participation is not saved (ZONE-2835)
Some mp3s won't upload (ZONE-2837, ZONE-2994)
If bandmates accept their BZ-invitation after an event was created the comment of participation feedback is not empty (ZONE-2894)
Bandmate abbreviation is not created for newly created Bandmate on band creation (ZONE-2895)
Between screenwidth 1260 and 1920 the availability overview table is broken (ZONE-2955)
In setlist XLS export for FoH (combined Light/Sound) the "Light" notes column does not word wrap, “Sound” does (ZONE-3091)
On (mobile) screens with very low vertical resolutions the date picker is cut off, so buttons are not visible (ZONE-3104)
On smaller screens in the rating/participation overlays the comment field is covered by the keyboard (ZONE-3109)
Participation overlay has different styling when invoked from event detail screen (ZONE-3110)
Pasted tables and styled content may become illegible if font and/or background colors are set (ZONE-3115)
First song is missing in PDF setlist (ZONE-3131)
Use correct filename for setlist pdf download (ZONE-3149)
In light interface for regular bandmate (non-admin) only own participation cell has the according status background (ZONE-3200)
Event update leads to all participations being updated - even if nothing was changed (ZONE-3006)

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