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Walk Challenge - for administrators

Videos

• watch the front end video
• watch the back end video
• watch the video on admin reports

Introduction

The Walk Challenge module allows people to compete within groups on behalf of a church in challenges.  For example, let's say the Conference has setup a "Get Fit in May" walk challenge.  They would add that to the WC Challenges object.  Then, let's say they want to allow two conference to compete against each other.  They'd add those two Conferences to the WC Groups object.

But you can put any entities into the groups object.  For example, let's say you wanted a challenge in which Districts would compete.  You'd add them as groups.

Then, people come to your website at: [yourwebsite]/walkchallenge and sign up.

When they join they give contact and login info which is saved into the WC People object.  They have to pick a church and group for which they are competing.  For example, they might compete in one challege for one group and one particular church, but later that year, they may have moved and would compete for another church or group.  Flexibility, baby.

You can add to the WC News table to post announcements, news or encouragements on the screen that participants see.

When the participants enter steps those are saved to the WC Steps log object.

Here are the objects/tables and fields...

WC Challenges

This is where you put in all your challenges.  For example, "Get Fit in May" 

• Title - the name of the challenge
• Description - a description of it
• Starts - You need to put in the absolute start date although groups could have staggered start and end dates - just like runners in certain track events have staggered starting point - so too can group start and end dates.  Just make sure that each group is competing for the same amount of time.
• Ends - when competition is closed

WC Groups

This is where you put the challenge information and then pick the groups that will be competing and put in their start/end dates.  Remember, groups could have staggered start and end dates.  It's not optimal but it's possible.

WC Member Participation

This object ties together people and their participation in challenges on behalf of churches and groups.  You won't need to interact with this object.  It's mostly a hidden table used by the system.

WC News

Put news, announcements or encouragements in here and it will show up on the particpants page.  Show to all challenges or restrict to show only on certain challenges.

• Title - the title
• Written date - date written
• Posted by - the author
• Applies to all challenges - click if you want to show on all challenges pages
• Applies to this challenge - choose the challenge from the drop-down to which you want it to show
• Description - the verbiage - the announcement - the article

WC Participating Groups

Once you setup a new challenge and/or groups, you need to assign the groups that will be competing in the challenges.  Let's say for the "Get Fit in May" challenge "The Dark Knights" group will be competing against the "Sunny Day" group, you'd need to assign them within this object.  You need to have a separate participation record for each group's participation.

• Challenge - choose the challenge from the drop-down
• Group Name - choose the group from the drop-down
• Group Starts - optional.  If groups will have staggered start and end times put in values here.
• Group Ends - end day if staggered.

WC People

The people who have signed up.  They can manage themselves and their participation, from within the /walkchallenge section of the website.

WC Steps Log

This is where the steps are stored.  People can enter steps as either steps, miles or time and the system will convert it to steps upon entry.

Reports

Reports live IN the actual front-end of the system - within the /walkchallenge part.

• People that see the "reports" tab need to have the "is admin" field checked within the WC People object.
• Reports actually come out of the QUERIES part of the Web Console.  Any query that starts with "WC:" is pulled into the reports part of the front-end.

Video for how it works on the FRONT end

Video for how it works on the BACK end