I know there’s a project beginning to redo the stuff available under ‘affiliate’ in your dashboard as part of a project to redo several parts of the website; adding a link to a page with assorted forms is worth suggesting.
One of the volunteers who will be working on this does user interface design professionally, hopefully that will produce pages that are easier to understand and navigate. (My older son took a UI course at Carnegie-Mellon, the instructor said that 99% of websites would fail the course.)
I find the whole dashboard concept confusing. For example, there’s a link to the ‘tournament organizer’ page once you select an affiliate but not one to the ‘tournament director’ page, though a TD can’t get to the ‘Tournament Rating Reports’ page (which is where the online submission process starts) unless you select an affiliate first. Seems to me that the ‘Tournament DIrector’ link should be on the main dashboard as well as on the Affiliate dashboard. (But I was not consulted when they were designing the Drupal dashboard stuff.)
But as far as the ‘Tournament Director’ landing page is concerned, I’m not sure how much more clear we can be than saying “Tournament Report Form”. Any suggestions?
I can tell you that in my failed attempt to locate that form I searched for at least “rating report paper” and “submit tournament paper”. I found several pages documenting how to submit an online rating report using the new website structure, but nothing about how to submit a paper rating report, at which point I assumed it had gone away.
…so I think adding “paper” might help on the TD landing page, but the dashboard splitting into Tournament Rating Reports (Online) and Tournament Rating Reports (Paper) would also be great.
…and completely agreed about the requirement to pick an affiliate before getting that option as with both the online and paper versions it’s possible to change the affiliate in the process of drafting and correcting the rating report.
Personally, I think the word ‘form’ is a more accurate description than ‘paper’. We tend to call the formal description of the ratings system a ‘white paper’, for example. But UI has never been my strong suit.
Both the online system for a rating report and the paper system use a form to collect information; how do you contrast the two systems (particularly given that both systems can report on online events)?
I suppose we could call them ‘paper forms’ and ‘online forms’, but surely someone will find a reason to object to that as well. IMHO, ‘online data entry forms’ is getting a bit prolix.
‘Forms’ and ‘online’ are examples of an overloaded term, like ‘master’.