Task Fixture Card

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Add fixture card - six monthly

The fixture card is supplied by the Chief Guide, as a word document. If has not been received by the end of November or May then request it from Russell Cooke -> mailto:ttc-chief-guide [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz?Subject=Query%20from%20TTC%20website on (04) 977 9865.

• open the fixture card document (keep a copy of the original)
• these instructions assume that the fixture card has a tabular format (ie a spreadsheet or a table in a document)

These instructions were developed using OpenOffice, but will work for both spreadsheet or documents supplied by the Chief Guide, for most office software suites.

Edit the fixture card document

The fixture card is supplied as a series of tables separated by blank lines, one row per trip, one or two tables per week (weekend, midweek).

• join all weekly tables up for a month
• select all the rows for the first month's trips
• if a weekend or holiday extends into the next month include it on both month's pages
• copy your selection for the month

Create the new fixture card page

• create a new wiki website page
  • use the form filed and button above right, or
  • in the browser's address bar change the page name (eg FixtureCard/HomePage) to a new name (eg FixtureCard/2013January))
  • then click on the "edit" or "create" link
• paste the selection over, and including, the %comment% lines "replace from" to "replace to"
• no other changes are required to the page template

Create the content

• click on the icon to have the pasted tabular data formatted (ignore the "Confirm Navigation" warning and alter by clicking "Leave this Page")
• add a single exclamation mark as the first character in the weekly heading (location) line (the line will look like this ||!Weekly heading ||||||||||)
• see the existing pages for what the formatting looks like
• remove all lines of the form ||class='tabtable'
• remove any other exclamation markes that exists as the first character in cells
• remove the month (eg Jan) from each row
• add links to Tararua Lodge., TTC.Bush Craft, FixtureCard.MorisonBush, and TTC.Alpine Instruction

Repeat for all six months in the calendar

• note that the trips on a page include trips from the next month where the next month commences in the middle of the week

The page headings, indexes with automatically pick up the added fixture card month pages

Create half year pages

The half year pages allow website visitors to print out all six months of the fixture card, in a similar way to the distributed printed fixedure card sent to members

• open FixtureCard.2012FirstHalf and use the Copy/Move link to copy as FixtureCard.2013FirstHalf? (for December)
• open FixtureCard.2012SecondHalf? and use the Copy/Move link to copy as FixtureCard.2013SecondHalf? (for June)
• check that the FixtureCard.FirstHalf or FixtureCard.SecondHalf pages display correctly.
• finally add the pages you have created to the FixtureCard.Archive
• tell people about it, update the news page, send an email to the tramping and news email groups, etc.