Manager Manual

This manual is for those who manage DogShow: the office that organizes the shows and the administrator of the instance. In DogShow the two roles overlap, so you will find both the day-to-day work and the system configuration here.

The chapters follow the order in which you meet things: first you prepare the system, then you build the show, then the entries arrive, and finally you run the show day.

What this manual covers

• First access and roles — Registering, getting administrator rights and securing the account.
• Base records — Organizations, judges and event types: the records every show is built on.
• Creating a show — From creating the show to publishing it in the calendar.
• Events, classes and rings — The events that make up a show, with their classes, breeds and rings.
• Assignments — Assigning breeds to judges and judges to rings, even after entries close.
• Entries and payments — Following incoming entries, recording payments and closing entries.
• Cancelling entries and credit — Cancelling a paid entry, what happens to the money, and how the exhibitor spends it again.
• Changing a start time — Moving a match after the dogs have been assigned to the rings, and what shifts with it.
• Documents and catalog — Composing the catalog and generating the show documents.
• Show day — The devices needed on the ground, the accounts that drive them and what each role sees.
• Ring device access — Creating ring accounts, pairing tablets and managing sessions during the show.
• Judging, titles and Best in Show — From entering judgments in the ring to awarding Best in Show.
• Practice data — Generating an invented show to rehearse on, without touching your real data.