The Options screen is used to change default values for area codes, assignor information, payroll information, and database defaults.
The options screen can be opened by:
or
A dialogue box will appear, where you may change the following options:
- Assignor: Assignor name, address, city, phone number.
This information is printed on the top of the payroll, billing, and referee assignor reports.
- Assignor: Referee Association
The name of the referee association, also printed at the top of reports.
- Assignor: E-mail Address
Used as the return e-mail address when sending e-mail from Referee Assistant
- Global: Default Area Code
This is the default telephone area code that will be used when entering new referees, coaches, and administrators.
- Global: Default State
Enter your two-letter state abbreviation. This is used in the Add Cities dialogue box
- Global: Default City
This is the default city that will be used when entering new referees, coaches, and administrators.
- Global: Date Format
Referee Assistant uses two different formats for dates: the Short Date format (as defined by your Windows Control Panel Regional Settings), and a format defined by this field. This value need only be changed if you wish to display dates in a different format on reports and screens.
By default, Referee Assistant displays dates (August 2, 2006) as shown:
Wed 8/2/06
This format can be changed by altering the value in this field. The default value is
ddd m/d/yy
Table 3.1. Date Formats
Character Represents / Date separator d Day of month, 1-31 dd Day of month, 01-31 ddd First three letters of the weekday (Sun-Sat) dddd Full name of the weekday (Sunday-Saturday) m Number of the month (1-12) mm Number of the month (01-12) mmm First three letters of the month (Jan-Dec) yy Last two digits of the year (06) yyyy Full year (2006) Any other character Displayed "as is" - Global: Address Format
The address format defines how a mailing address is to be formatted. This value need only be changed for users residing outside of the United States.
Table 3.2. Address Formats
Characters Represents [a1] Address Line 1 [a2] Address Line 2 [c] City [s] State [p] Postal Code | New Line A United States formatted address, such as:
Jeff Wigal 690 Winton Road South Apartment A Rochester, NY 14618
would use the format
[a1]|[a2]|[c], [s] [p]
If the assignor wants to format an address as such:
Jeff Wigal 690 Winton Road South Rochester 14618 New York
the assignor would use the address format
[a1]|[a2]|[c] [p]|[s]
- Global: Phone Input Mask
The Phone Input Mask defines how a telephone number is to be formatted.
Table 3.3. Input Masks
Character Represents Required 0 (zero) Digit Yes 9 Digit No # Digit or Space No L Letter Yes ? Letter No A Letter or Digit Yes a Letter or Digit No & Any character/space Yes C Any character/space No A Letter or Digit Yes < Converts all characters to lower case N/A > Converts all characters to upper case N/A \ Causes the character that follows to be displayed as a literal character (e.g. \A is displayed as just A) N/A - Referees: Default Ref Grade
This is the default referee grade for manual referee data entry.
- Referees: Default Ref Ability
Each referee is given an ability score that corresponds to each position. This is the default referee ability level when adding new ability levels. The three values correspond to, from left to right, Low, Preferred, and High ability levels.
- Games: Default System of Control
This is the default system of control when games are entered into Referee Assistant.
- Games: Default Game Difficulty
This is the default game difficulty level for new games.
- Games: Default Post Game Interval
The Post-Game Interval is the number of minutes after the calculated completion of a match that a referee should be seen by Referee Assistant as unavailable.
For example, the assignor has set up an age group called "U-12" Age Group. "U-12" has a 50 minute length-of-game.
For a 2:00pm kickoff time, Referee Assistant calculates that this game will end at 2:50pm
The calculated length of a game can be changed by 1) changing the length-of-game of the Age Group, or 2) changing the Post-Game Interval value.
If you want to show referees as available for another match sooner, the pre-game can be set to 0, or can also be set to a negative number, such as -10.
In the above example, if the pre-game interval is set at -10, the calculated length-of-game is 40 minutes, and the referee will be available to work another match at 2:40pm.
- Games: Default Pre Game Interval
The Pre-Game Interval is the number of minutes prior to kickoff that a referee is unavailable.
For example, if the default pre-game interval is 30 minutes, if a referee is assigned to a 2:00pm match, Referee Assistant will see that this referee is not available from 1:30pm until the end of the match.
- Features: Use E-mail Notification for Referee Assignments
If this checkbox is checked, Referee Assistant will provide warnings when an e-mailed assignment is changed or removed.
- Features: SMTP Server
This is the address of your outgoing mail server. This is required if the e-mail features of Referee Assistant will be used.
- Features: SMTP User Name
If your outgoing mail server requires a login user name & password, the user name must be entered here. Most ISPs do not require a login prior to sending out mail.
- Features: Password
If your outgoing mail server requires a login user name & password, the password must be entered here. Most ISPs do not require a login prior to sending out mail.
- Features: POP3 Server
If your outgoing mail server requires that your mailbox be checked for waiting messages prior to sending mail, then the POP3 incoming mail server address must be entered here. Most ISPs do not require this.
- Features: Web DB Domain
This is used with the Web Services feature. This value is provided when a subscription is purchased.
- Features: Web DB Name
This is used with the Web Services feature. This value is provided when a subscription is purchased.
- Features: Web DB Server
This is used with the Web Services feature. This value is provided when a subscription is purchased.
- Features: Web DB Port
This is used with the Web Services feature. This value is provided when a subscription is purchased.