New Competition

Competition meetings are added by an overall system administrator via the Tools -> Setup Meetings screen. When selected the administrator must fill in the Identity section and may optionally fill in the other sections.

• Identity - the Identity information is editable only by system administrators and contains the primary listing information as follows:

  • Full Name - the competition full name as used on the index page and in screen titles/breadcrumbs;

  • Meeting Date - the competition date;

  • Meeting Code - the slug used in URLs. Note that this typically should not be changed after competition creation to avoid confusing external systems/apps;

  • Meeting Type - Regatta, Head Race or Regatta with Time Trial as appropriate;

  • UUID - an internal identifier. This is usually left blank and is thus automatically assigned by the system.

• Public Visibility - controls specifying what is visible to the public

  • Visible to Public - if true then specific competition information is visible to the general public without authentication. Note that only standard information that would be visible in a draw/results is ever made available to the unauthenticated public.

  • Overall Lifecycle Stage - this specifies the competition lifecycle and hence controls what public visible information is exported. Key values are: In Planning to specify that all information is currently only visible to competition administrators; Draw Published when the draw is available for the general public to see; Provisional Results when racing progress and initial results are visible to the general public; Full Results when the results have been initially checked and prizes have been allocated; Final Results when results have been fully checked and are ready for submission to British Rowing via BROE.

  • Individual Division Lifecycle Stage - the per-division lifecycle that mirrors the overall lifecycle but for an individual division. Note that the lower of overall and individual value is used when deciding what information to show on a per-division basis.

• Staff Visibility - controls what information is available to authenticated staff.

  • Draw Complete - when ticked this signals that the draw is not expected to change and is a pre-requisite for external software to be able to see timing details.

  • Meeting Archived - when ticked this signals that the meeting is no longer active and external software/apps removes the competition from default visibility.

  • Results Open - when ticked external software can see the competition, or divisions in the list of available timing divisions.

  • Results Final - when ticked the system will no longer accept timing updates from external apps.

  The Results Open and Results Final flags are available both on a whole competition meeting and per-timing division basis.

• Default Staff Permissions - These form part of the access control permissions system and generally should never be changed.

Once the initial setup has been performed click Save to go ahead and create the competition meeting.