Futures
Like any software solution, wp-SwimTeam has some holes which need to be filled. Below is the list of features, in no particular order, which will be added prior to the summer 2009 swim season. Yes, that is almost a year away but I do not want to be doing development during the season next year so I expect that most of these will be implemented in the next 3-4 months.
- Scratch / Registration for meets (aka opt-in / opt-out)
- Define and Manage Volunteer Roles
- Volunteer sign up
- Pool and Team Records
- Import Times and per swimmer historical time records
- Heat Sheet Management
Of these, the Heat Sheet Management is probably the hardest because I want to implement an AJAX based drag and drop solution. Developing a heat sheet is non-trivial because it needs to account for scratches and prior times, and late additions and deletions. I suspect this will be the last feature from this list that will be implemented because it depends on several of the others and because I haven’t done any work with AJAX yet.
I like the addition of varying fee values based on age groups, since I suspect many neighborhood clubs do the same thing to encourage older swimmers. One other feature that may also be useful is to allow an option to set a maximum fee value on a per-family (user) basis. I know our club has such a limit so as not to over burden families with multiple swimmers.