Sports, Fitness & Athletics// topic
Scheduling, attendance and the facility
In short
Who is allowed to be where, when: recurring sessions and terms, pitch, court and lane allocation across venues, capacity and waitlists, cancellations and make-ups, and check-in against the door hardware you already own.
5 pages
definitions
- A session series is not eighteen sessions: the recurrence record explainedA series is a rule plus an exception list, not a pile of rows. Every confusing this-event-or-all-events prompt comes from that one storage decision.definition6 min
- Court utilisation is a fraction, and the denominator is the argumentBooked, attended and revenue-bearing over available: three honest utilisation numbers for one week, and the denominator argument that decides all three.definition6 min
- What an attendance mark has to mean before you can count anythingAn attendance mark is a value from a small vocabulary plus an author, a timestamp and an amendment history. A tick box cannot answer a single question a club actually asks of a register.definition6 min
diagnostics
- Full class, empty floor: where waitlist promotion silently failsThe spot is released, offered and accepted on a clock that runs out before anyone could reach the building. Instrument four timestamps for one week and the cause names itself.diagnostic10 min
- Lapsed members are still getting through the doorThe door holds its own copy of who may enter. That makes revocation a push you have to design, and puts the fault in the timing and direction of that push rather than in your membership data.diagnostic10 min
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