This page allows access to the list of grades within the current association. Authorized association users can create new grades, and edit the properties of these grades at any time.
By default, the list displays active grades only. Inactive grades can also be displayed by clicking the Show Inactive grades checkbox.
Mode: Competition Management Menu: Competition -> Grades -> Maintain Grades,Teams and Ladders |
Click the Add a new grade/Edit Grade link to open the Grade Edit screen where the grade can be configured further.
| Grade Name | Mandatory - A unique name for the grade. This will display as the grade name throughout the site. Grade names may be changed after being created, however this will change the name for all seasons. If you wish to refer to the grade by the old name for previous seasons, you should create a new grade with the new name. It is not necessary to create a new grade for a new season if the grade name is unchanged. |
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| Grade Short Name | A unique shorter (20 chars max) name for the grade. This is used in certain reports - eg when sending some SMS notifications where the message length is limited. |
| Active | Check the box if the grade is active (ie if matches are still played in this grade). This setting only affects grade lists in the administrative section of the site, all grades from previous seasons still display on the public section of the site regardless of whether the grade is Active or Inactive. |
| Grade sort order | This affects the order in which the grades are presented in drop down lists on the site (where the site is customised for an association). Where the site is customised for a club, the club may specify a sort order that will override this setting. |
| Grade Type | select the type that best describes the participants of this grade. |
| Grade Standard/Level | (mandatory if available) - select the competition standard that best describes the participants of this grade. |
| Age Qualification |
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| Default match start time | any matches created under this grade will have use this as the default start time. Leave blank if no default is required, or if the start time is not applicable. |
| Referee Allocation Organisation | choose which organisation performs Referee allocations for this grade. Usually this will be the current organisation, however if a parent organisation has been configured to do allocations on behalf of the current organisation, this can be selected here. Note: only one organisation can do allocations for a particular grade. |
| Club championship weighing factor | |
| Automatically make match official when confirmed | Match results automatically turned to official if this is ticked |
| Fixture sort order | Fixture is displayed either by round or date per selection |
| Require coach selected with team | This requires squad set up with coach information if ticked |
| Allocated Umpire Visibility | Fixture displays allocated umpire information if this is ticked |
Grade could be easily duplicated by clicking on Copy icon at the beginning of each existing grade row
Click the appropriate Delete link on the Grade Management page. Only grades that have no match data entered nor ladders attached can be deleted. In other cases, the grade can be made Inactive (by editing the grade and clearing the Active checkbox).