Changes to assistops website (v2.0)

As discussed during the development of the first release, the 'Level' value needs to apply per official, in each of their capacities (e.g. referee, table etc). The expense calculation should use this value. The Level field currently present for each fixture needs to be deleted.

A new field is also required on each Fixture to indicate a region code. This will consist of a two letter code only.

Each Assigner record should also be able to have any number of region codes assigned to it, only editable by an admin user via the CMS. In Assigner login sessions, only Fixtures where the region code match the Assigner's own region code should be listed.

The login box needs to be on the home page, on the right hand side.

All grids (including two additional ones detailed below) need an indicator of whether an official assignment has responded to the email generated and sent to them when the fixture was assigned, and whether that response was An Accept or Decline.

A new type of member record needs to be created, giving view only access to the grid, initially showing the same details as the current grid. If a Statistician or Commissioner are assigned to the match, functionality is required to ensure that billing club is explicitly aware of this. This means either an indicator of some sort on the grid indicating that the user can then click on a link on that row to show additional information including these officials, or an email to the billing club when these less common officials are assigned to the fixture.

Furthermore, on this new grid, these users with view only access need to have the option to see the official's email address and phone number.

A third grid and login type is also required, for all members flagged as officials. This will allow officials to log in to and see the list filtered to include all of their own matches only, with the option to confirm availability, or indeed respond again differently on a fixture, if they have already accepted or declined the match.

On the homepage, new menu items are required, to navigate to new pages as follows:
About
Service Status
User guide
Contact

The home page and user guide page require a fairly flexible format, to include various areas for text and photographs, and links on the home page to other sites. The header bar needs to remain in view, and the text on it should be amended to ASSIST Official's Payment System, in bright orange text.

Some discussion will also be required in relation to another major enhancement for a subsequent project, being the functionality for officials to confirm their availability, on a calendar / diary etc. The intention is that this should result in officials only appearing available for selection in the drop down lists if they are available for the duration of the match, and in an order which lists the officials closest to the fixture venue at the top of the list. It may be best to discuss this before work commences, in case allowances need to be made for this future development in this project.

With potentially hundreds of fixtures being processed each week, a list of these in the CMS menu will become impractical. Therefore, yet another project will also be required to produce exports / reports enabling administrators to see a summary of actions required, or to store and archive data, and/or to build another grid enabling the export of data for control purposes.