Changelog

• New Pick the currency your team's finances are kept in
• Fixed The who-did-it picker on fundraising entries Suggested by Lumens³ · 30393

Robolyst now runs the event side too. Region coordinators get a dashboard for their whole region, and event staff get a manager for the day itself.

• New An overview of everything Robolyst does for events
• New Region dashboards with scouting coverage, a photo queue with upload links, a retention radar and an advancement tracker
• New Region partner profiles on location pages
• New An event manager with staff roles and join links
• Improved Meeting RSVPs can be set on behalf of a member, and calendar feeds have their own RSVP style Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Fixed RSVP fixes and redirects

• New Announcements became Communication, with private messages next to team-wide posts
• New Each meeting picks its RSVP style: none, decline only, or full
• New An advanced view on the members page, where custom fields are edited right in the roster Suggested by Perfect Paradox 8400 · 8400
• New Teams can request a scouting kit for an event, and earn bolts when teams they refer sign up
• Improved Event scouting pages, pit packs and the scouting dashboard got a cleanup pass, and scouting moved to its own section

• New Team sites on a custom domain also answer on the www address Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Improved The Team HQ sidebar collapses while you edit your website
• Fixed Team site headers

• Improved The Team HQ sidebar is grouped into Work, Compete, Money, Reach and Library
• Improved Join codes are 8 characters long and skip letters that look alike
• Improved Awards moved out of documentation into their own page
• Improved Replies to form submissions stay on one email thread
• Improved A redesigned follow page
• Improved Website editor improvements
• Improved Completing a task gets a small animation

• New Adjust your season start month to count off-season outreach in the new season Suggested by Lion Robotics Gold · 21311
• New Light mode for Team HQ
• New Practice match details and history for scoring calculator Suggested by PCM Alchemists · 18527
• Improved Share/copy link button for event details Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180

• New A team wiki to be a forever building private knowledge base Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• New The overview page is built from widgets your team can arrange
• New A pit display for a spare screen, with the agenda, banners and QR check-in
• Improved Search finds tasks, documentation and wiki pages by meaning, and tolerates typos
• Improved Images in documentation can be resized by dragging a corner
• Fixed Date pickers on tasks, orders, expenses and announcements

• New Anyone can follow a team for match results, reminders and event recaps by email, from the team page
• Improved Pasting a product link on an order fills in the name, price, part number and photo

• New Added 3d print queuing Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Improved Allow screenshots in bug reports Suggested by Asimov · 21081
• New Competition-day do not disturb, which can still let match, scouting and announcement alerts through
• New Mute a single task to stop its notifications
• Improved Webhooks show when they last delivered and why they failed
• Improved Photo uploads show a progress bar

• New Users can now be members of multiple groups Suggested by Lumens³ · 30393
• New Orders can be edited after they are submitted until they are marked "ordered"

• New Live syncing for multiple editors on one doc Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• New Tasks and documentation pages fetch data automatically(no refresh)

Weekly outreach reads as one series.

• Improved Each week of a recurring outreach series is grouped under one heading.
• Fixed Changing a team's program or team number in settings did not save properly.

Scouting now covers matches as well as the pits.

• New Record what a team did in each match from the event's matches tab. Observations sit next to pit answers and feed the picklist.
• New Pick a checklist for an event's pit day and it shows on the event page.
• Improved Short explanations on the scouting pages for anyone opening them for the first time.
• Improved The demo event has match observations, custom questions and boards to look through.

A task assigned to several people is done once everyone has done their part. Scouting has a sketchpad for plans that do not belong to any event.

• New Tasks with more than one assignee track each person separately. Mark done for me finishes your part and leaves everyone else's open. Suggested by ITKAN-404 · 27377

Your team's data can now be read and written from your own scripts with an API key. Tasks and documentation can be narrowed to what is assigned to you.

• New A REST API for your team. Create a key under Settings, keep it read-only or give it write access, and work with tasks, the schedule, finance, documentation, checklists, scouting and more.
• New Filter tasks and documentation down to what is assigned to you.
• Improved Correctly format Markdown pastes into the editor
• Fixed The total budget on the finance overview showed the wrong number.
• Fixed Task pages were cramped and hard to use on a phone.

An order can start as a draft, orders can be merged, and everything waiting on the same vendor gathers into one cart. Roster members who have never signed in now count as people everywhere else in the portal.

• New Users can leave their comments to be shown on public pages.
• New An order can start as a draft and be shared for comment before anyone approves it.
• New Merging orders is now possible.
• Improved A roster member with no account can hold roles, be marked present, take a task and own a fundraising ask. Suggested by Perfect Paradox 8400 · 8400
• Improved Archive members who've left while maintaining their history.
• Fixed MCP connections failing. Suggested by Solar Flare · 25707

Money coming in has a page of its own, with dated goals and every ask tracked from idea to deposit. Scouting takes your own questions, and strategy gets a board to draw on.

• New An income page. Set fundraising goals with dates on them, and follow every ask from idea, to asked, to pledged, to the money landing. Suggested by Perfect Paradox 8400 · 8400
• New Write your own scouting questions. They appear on the pit form and the answers come back with the rest of the row. Suggested by Asimov · 21081
• New Strategy boards. Draw a plan on the season's field and send it to whoever needs it with a link. Suggested by Asimov · 21081
• New A teams tab and a watchlist at every event you scout.
• Fixed A task moved into a done column kept reading as overdue until the page reloaded. Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180

Placing an order got a proper bulk flow, a line that never got bought records why, and this season's scoring is in the calculator.

• New A line that never got bought records why: out of stock, discontinued, or whatever else happened.
• New The scoring calculator now has BIOBUZZ.
• Improved Marking an order placed handles a whole vendor group in one pass, and tells the right people about it.
• Improved Tasks save as you type.
• Improved Announcement emails carry working links.

Subgroups became roles, and a member can hold as many as they need. Teams can take sponsorships through a page of their own, budgets go one level deeper, and the kickoff pages were rebuilt.

• New Roles replace subgroups. A member holds as many roles as they need, and what they can do is everything those roles grant put together.
• New Budget categories hold sub-categories. A parent counts its own spending plus everything underneath it.
• Improved Manager is no longer a locked system role.
• Improved An embedded block links back to the page it came from when it renders inline on your site.
• Fixed Announcement cards showed the reply controls twice.
• Fixed The cap on contribution bolts counted wrong.
• Fixed Link clicks and referrals were landing against the wrong page.
• Fixed Scatter graphs on the event page did not line up with their axes.

Files can be dropped onto the page they belong on. The attendance sheet waits until people have had a chance to turn up, and best single-match score joins the season stats.

• New Drop files straight onto the page to upload them, anywhere the portal takes a file Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• New Vendor tag now auto-populates for known vendor URL's Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• New Best single-match score on the season stats, ranked against the same pool as the other metrics Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• Improved Allow typing in just your handle for social media links Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• Improved The attendance sheet shows RSVPs until an hour before the event starts, then shows attendance
• Improved Moved the "add competition" to the new event modal Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• Fixed Multi-item orders could not be marked ordered Suggested by Avant-Garde · 24018
• Fixed Season stat pools dropped every five-match event, which left some season averages as a single event average

A due date can now carry a time, notifications about your own events can reach you as a Discord DM, and outreach events collect photos from people who were there without an account.

• New Task due dates can carry a time of day, with a team-wide default Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• New Notifications for your own events can arrive as a Discord DM
• New Photos attach to outreach events, and a public link collects them from people without an account
• Improved The personal notification settings page was rebuilt to match the rest of the site
• Improved Meeting notes are now written as documentation entries
• Improved One date and time picker across tasks and the schedule, and a due date can be typed as "tomorrow", "12/9" or "sep 12"
• Improved Mentors are counted separately from students in attendance stats
• Fixed Announcements were not reaching Discord, and the composer now says where a post will broadcast
• Fixed Agenda tasks for meetings failing to create from the meeting detail view Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Fixed "Add subtask" context button not being responsive Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180

Teams earn bolts for referrals, onboarding, contribution and usage. The board runs monthly, and the top three are granted a prize.

• New A public bolts board, with the rules for every lane
• New Your team bolt count in the Team HQ header, linking to the full ledger

• Improved Feature pages rewritten to match what the portal does now
• Improved Real screenshots of the portal across the marketing pages

• Improved Auto-tagging left beta, and tags now apply when you save
• Improved New tasks always open in a modal
• Improved Documentation entries are only created once you actually change something in the modal
• Improved Spacing on the outreach page, and avatar placement in task comments
• Fixed Tasks deleted in Robolyst now delete from Discord too
• Fixed The demo team shows every tab

AI-powered tagging of new tasks and documentation to support better record keeping, along with tracking for outreach partners and their contact info.

• New Auto-tagging for Tasks and Documentation
• New A page to track organizations you do outreach with
• New Outreach event planning flow(Idea -> Contacted -> Confirmed)
• Improved Add Tiktok as team social link option Suggested by Team Universal Genesis · 37152
• Fixed Stop image renames from stripping the file ext Suggested by Team Universal Genesis · 37152

Built the Outreach page, intended to help teams keep track of exactly how many and which people they impacted.

• New People affected counting for scheduled outreach
• New Custom tags for breakdowns of audiences(groups of affected people)

Allow exporting all data from the Team HQ portal into spreadsheets and allow selection downloads for uploaded photos.

• New Add export page Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• New Add per-user/team saved filters for common task and document searches Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Improved Added support to select multiple photos and download as a .zip Suggested by Team Universal Genesis · 37152
• Improved Switch image "folders" into "albums"
• Improved Added notification badges to sidebar tabs
• Improved Allow cancelling one event from of a recurring event chain Suggested by Blue Bananas · 24180
• Improved Show the award(s) a documentation entry is tagged with in the full list Suggested by Team Universal Genesis · 37152
• Fixed Images deleted from documentation entries no longer show as linked in Resources -> Images

• Improved Visual overhaul of the navigation sidebar
• Improved Reorganize sidebar subpages based on usage frequency
• Improved Unified designs for info blocks and clearly separated box headers
• Improved Better fill empty space and decrease page padding

• New Add support for non-FTC team groups in team management
• New Added an activity heatmap to the Team HQ overview and the Planning Stats page
• New Added role impersonation
• Improved Huge layout/design changes for spacing and the sidebar for Team HQ
• Improved Moved view rules for Finance into the role editor
• Improved Visual overhaul for role manager
• Improved Move form responses to a seperate table below the form list

Two public tools for the new season.

• New A scoring calculator for the current game
• New A kickoff page counting down to the season reveal
• New Allow photos in documentation entries Suggested by Lumens³ · 30393
• Improved Attach polls, photos, and files to announcements
• Improved Awards on team pages read correctly and link where they should
• Fixed Cancelled tasks no longer count as overdue
• Fixed Events edited/deleted in Robolyst update in Discord

Pit scouting, match scouting and alliance selection now run on the same data, and none of it needs rebuilding when the season rolls over.

• New A scouting dashboard, with pit scouting joined by QR code
• New An alliance picklist board that stays in sync across every device watching it
• New Season OPR, private notes and a watchlist alongside your own scouting
• Improved Scouting is set up per event
• Improved Location pages rank teams by OPRc

Spending got the controls a mentor needs before handing a card to a student, and the embed builder was rebuilt from scratch.

• New Card grants: a pot per card, with an expiry and merchant locks
• New A documents page for signed agreements and tax paperwork
• New Volunteer links on event pages
• New A transparency page covering how we handle data and AI
• Improved Approval flows for orders, expenses and reimbursements
• Improved The embed builder now carries its whole configuration in the URL
• Improved Resource categories are yours to name
• Fixed Email invites that silently failed to send

Three ways into the same data: a bot in your server, a machine-readable endpoint, and a portal you can walk through without signing up.

• New The Discord bot left beta: notifications, RSVPs and slash commands
• New MCP servers for the FTC archive and for your own portal
• New A demo team with sample data, open to anyone
• New Calendar feed import, so an existing ICS subscription mirrors into the schedule
• Improved Team avatars and gradient banners on team pages

A broad week: notifications reach phones, event pages gained the two things people kept asking for, and teams can turn off the parts of the portal they do not use.

• New Web push notifications, including on iOS home screens
• New Playoff brackets drawn from the real alliance structure
• New Advancement points per event, as FIRST publishes them
• New Feature modules, so a team can switch off what it does not run
• New Guides on scouting, sponsorship, budgeting and the portfolio
• Improved Permissions split per key, including for the inbox
• Improved Documentation exports as PDF
• Improved Awards can be tagged on tasks, meetings and documentation

Email stopped living in one persons account. The directory of what teams publish went up the same week.

• New Team inbox: a shared mailbox with templates, rules, snooze and search
• New Shipment tracking on orders, read straight from the carrier
• New A directory of the code and CAD teams publish
• New Onboarding emails for new teams

Team websites can now answer on a domain the team owns, and the links on them report back.

• New Custom domains for team websites, verified and routed automatically
• New Click tracking on team site links, with country-level geography
• New A contact page that routes bugs, features and privacy requests
• Improved Canonical URLs, per-section sitemaps and social cards on every page
• Fixed Two competitions on the same day no longer collapse into one

Match, team and award data moved off the old store and onto Postgres, which is what made whole-history rankings and records possible.

• Improved Every season on record, queryable in one place
• Improved Scoring records rebuilt per season
• New Calendar subscription for the team schedule
• New Marketing pages describing what the toolkit does
• Improved A faster map on the front page

Engineering notebook work moved into the portal, and the planning pages got the rebuild they needed before build season.

• New Documentation with subsystems, media and exports
• New Custom task statuses and a kanban view
• New Task dependencies, so one task can block another
• Improved Checklists rebuilt around sections, quantities and starter templates
• Improved Filtering and a new editor on the tasks page
• Improved Recurring meetings on the schedule

The money half of the toolkit landed in one go: teams under our 501(c)(3) can take donations, hold a balance and spend it on a real card.

• New Donation pages, with donor thanking and recurring gifts
• New Card issuing and cardholders, with per-category allowances
• New Receipt tracking against every card transaction
• New Terms of Service and a privacy policy covering all of it