.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- .. :Project: SoL .. :Created: mer 25 dic 2013 11:15:35 CET .. :Author: Lele Gaifax .. :License: GNU General Public License version 3 or later .. :Copyright: © 2013-2015, 2018, 2020 Lele Gaifax .. .. _clubs management: Clubs management ---------------- .. index:: pair: Management; Clubs A *club* is the entity that organizes one or more *championships* of *tourneys*. It can also have a list of associated *players*. .. index:: National federations A club may also be a *national federation*, which usually coordinates the clubs of a particular country. Often the international tourneys are hosted by this or that federation in turn and usually it is mandatory for a player to be affiliated with a particular federation before she can participate to an event. .. contents:: Menu actions ~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to the :ref:`standard actions ` the menu at the top contains the following items: .. figure:: clubs.png :figclass: float-right Clubs management :guilabel:`Championship` Opens the :ref:`management of the championships ` organized by the selected club :guilabel:`Players` Opens the :ref:`management of the players ` associated with the selected club :guilabel:`Download` Downloads an archive of all the tourneys organized by the selected club :guilabel:`Assign` Change the ownership of the selected clubs: you can select one or more clubs keeping pressed the :kbd:`Ctrl` key and extend the selection with the :kbd:`Shift` key The administrator and the user that owns a club may find one further action in the popup menu that appears right clicking on the particular club: :guilabel:`Users` Opens the :ref:`user association management ` window, allowing to select which other users may create entities linked to the club, in particular new tournaments. Insert and edit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. index:: pair: Insert and edit; Clubs Description +++++++++++ Each club has a :guilabel:`description`, that must be unique: there cannot be two distinct clubs with the same description. Nationality, web site and email +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The :guilabel:`nationality`, the :guilabel:`web site URL` and the :guilabel:`email` are optional. The latter may be used to send email messages to the responsible for the club. Rating ++++++ The :guilabel:`rating` is used as the default value when creating new championships of this club: usually, but not always, all championships of a particular club use the same rating; in any case, it's the :ref:`tourney's setting ` to be decisive, because it may happens that a particular event, even if it belongs to a given championship, uses a different rating, for example for an *open* tournament. Federation ++++++++++ A club may be marked as a :guilabel:`federation`: to be accepted at international events it is often mandatory for a player to be affiliated with a national federation. Pairing method and bounties +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The :guilabel:`pairing method` and the :guilabel:`prize-giving method` are used as default values when new championships are added to the club. Owner +++++ The user who is *responsible* of the club data, usually the one that inserted that particular record: the information related to the club are changeable only by him (and also by the *administrator* of the system). .. _emblem: Emblem ++++++ The :guilabel:`emblem` field may contain the name of an image file (either a ``.png``, a ``.gif``, or ``.jpg``) that will printed on the :ref:`badges`. Although it will be scaled as needed, it's recommended to put there a reasonably sized logo\ [#]_. .. [#] The application imposes a 512Kb limit, considering the *raw* size of the image: although it may depend on the browser, usually it gets converted to the ``PNG`` format, so in general it does *not* correspond to the size of the original selected image.