CustomGameEditor

History/Background

Created in 2011? by cloning the customTournamentEditor script.

This editor is now tied into the SelectXMLToEdit display for games.

As of Fall 2012 there are still some major failings in this editor. Locations are not transferred through completely. Not sure whether this is an input or output (or both) issue. But it makes it only appropriate for very limited applications. There are other functional issues that have caused me to hesitate on moving forward. This discussed more in the Issues section

Issues

The biggest issue is the concept of divisions and rounds. Divisions especially are a somewhat artificial contstruct. And it looking at the way we do the Intrasite game schedules, they add only a minimal display value. With looking at all the games at one site for a given day, there is no easy way to break the table display on divisions.... The reality is that divisions should probably be approached as pools are in tournaments.

Abstracting that out further, we should look at approaching both tournaments and gamedays using the SAME xml tags. That way, one editor could be designed to work for both types of files. Meta data and xml attributes, could be used to distinguish the particulars. Since we join all the intrasite gamedays into multiple pages in a single file, there is one extra dimension to that xml, but that can be handled pretty cleanly by adding one more wrapper around the tournament day. It would also provide additional options for storing and processing the xml data (probably not needed).