Site Presentation
Contents...
The Croquet England Website
An Overview for the Executive (Recorded on YouTube)
Home Page https://www.croquet.org.uk/
- Content: (dynamic) news and fixtures
- Authorised people may create and edit news items
- demo edit
- demo create
- info: inter-club event draws are updated by results posted as news items
- "what's on"
- where the best players are in the coming weeks (championship events)
- other events in the next few weeks (incl. scheduled committee meetings)
- uses live data from the fixtures calendar
- The fixtures calendar drives the event listings and online entry system (TES)
- demo: view details of an event and those entered into it
Website Structure Overview
> Home > "About the site" https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=home/about
- each regular page is owned by a committee (bear that in mind - more later)
- address bar links to the page - even deep in database queries, etc.
- hierarchical page naming system (like files and folders on a disk)
- (read this page at your leisure)
Finding Stuff
- Google search site
- e.g. "Handicapping" - visit GC page
- notice the sidebar menu
- show changing URL between association->golf
- > guidelines for Club Handicappers
- > handicap card
- note info message for "your page, what to do?"
- (need to be logged in)
- Look at the page footer
- > update request (available to anyone logged in)
- > local map - see sub-pages
- > status and references
- linkages
- change requests, change logs
- compare with previous versions
- > Subscribers' Search https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=members/SearchSite
- show pages owned by committees
- search inside "regenerat" (search is literal, not Google so this matches "regenerate" and "regenerating"
- > About Us https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=ca
- schemes and plans (don't follow, just awareness)
- committees - follow full details -> online Croquet England Directory - more later - see "email all"
- > Subscribers' Area
- quick: can join and pay online -> full access as a subscriber
- > Papers and Docs ***
- committee papers - minutes
- help - note supports embargo and minutes approved with no dissent
- docs have multiple versions
- access control levels (policies in CPB)
- web pages are similar
- this constrains the power of the Google search
- > same mechanism for committee-managed docs linked from web pages that are not meeting-related
- > committee working areas - demonstrates database-query active components for e.g. coaching
The Croquet England Directory (AKA NMDB - New Membership Database)
https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=members/directory
- find a person - see their qualifications, etc.
- enable priv. to see more details
- with priv. can search phone number, email, etc.
- NOTE very restrictive ATM, use-cases must drive the expansion of access
- > view Croquet England Officials
- > National Handicappers - show email-all [explain constraint from visibility settings and mention plan to change)
- > context-tab, select-all, show graph/CSV
- > (briefly) HELP
- > Database Reports - embryonic, suggestions welcome - permissions might block access - just ask
Edit a Page
- who authorised: owning committee members (and website admins)
- quickly edit the page as an illustration https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=games/coaching/courses
- note template for courses
- (save changes) note new page is draft
- page not visible (by default) unless logged-in committee member (or admin)
- allows discussion before publishing
- need a special link if not a logged-in committee member
- publish process
Just so You Know it's There...
- photo library
- player profiles
- Honours board
- Forward Calendar
And Finally...
- Exec board members and Council have access as any committee member 9i.e can update any pages).
- A change on the blocks is to grant access to committee materials on the basis of "not yet left committee" rather than "is currently a member" to allow full committee access to those not yet started.
- The styling is mobile-friendly (most visits are from mobiles) and switches as the screen size shrinks.
Using this website
