| The following Terms and Phrases should be considered as having the associated meanings when used in the context of this site. Note that you can retrieve any of these definitions anywhere on the site where you see a small gray question mark next to the Term by clicking on it.
- Administrator
- A User charged with the overall responsibility for the general operation of the WAISOA site and management of Site usage.
- Assessor
- A User that has been formally licensed or otherwise approved by the Board to perform Referee Assessments.
- Assignment
- As a noun, it identifies the relationship between a specific Match Position and a Referee. As a verb, it refers to the steps and actions necessary to create the relationship between a specific Match Position and a Referee.
- Assignor
- A User that has the responsibility to coordinate and facilitate the assignment of Referees to Matches
- Audit
- A database table containing a single entry for each significant action that takes place on the site. Also used as a verb to indicate that a particular action will be recorded for future review and diagnosis
- Authority
- Identifies the Organization that sanctions a particular Match to be held. This might be a State Association, a local League, etc., but is ultimately the administrative body that organizes and tracks the competitions between the teams under it's guidance.
- Browser
- A program operating in a Visitor's system somewhere on the Internet that has asked for a Page from a Server.
- Chapter
- Describes a collection of Referees that work as a group to provide coverage to Matches in a specific geographic area. A single Chapter commonly provides Referees to Matches sanctioned by one or more Authorities. WAISOA is a NISOA Chapter handling Assignments within Washington State.
- Coach
- An individual that participates in a Match in a non-Player capacity that is responsible for the Team's operation during the Match
- Criteria
- A specific combination of values associated with data elements that permits you to select a subset of entries that meet your needs.
- Directory
- An online, searchable list of the Site Users or participants that make up the WAISOA constituents
- Division
- A specific group of teams within a League and Level that has a specific playing schedule during a specific period of time (e.g. season or tournament). A Division is typically based on a Team's competitive skill level (as in Division 1, 2, 3, etc.)
- Field
- A physical area at a Location where a scheduled Match will occur between two Teams.
- Gender
- A reference to the sex of the participants in a Match (e.g. Male, M, Female, F, Coed, B, Boys, G, Girls, etc.). The Gender is for a Match is set according to the charter for the Organization scheduling the Match. This can also be a reference to the Gender of a single User (when used in the context of the User's Profile)
- League
- A collection of Matches between Teams assigned to particular competitive Levels, Divisions, and rules by a single Organization.
- Level
- An administrative-based grouping of Teams within a League. The grouping could be age (for youth as in U15, U16), competitive level (as in Open, Over30), etc.
- Location
- A geographic place with a street address that contains one or more Fields.
- Match
- A scheduled competition between two Teams authorized by an Organization and officiated by one or more Referees
- Match Report
- The act of reporting completion of an Assignment by a Referee. The Match Report is the basis for collecting the results of a Match and is the basis for payment processing.
- Method
- Identifies the Assignment process that will be used for a specific Position on a specific Match. The Method value can be:
- None
- The position will NOT be filled
- Manual
- The Position is not eligible for SelfAssign and will be manually filled by an Assignor
- SelfAssign
- The Position is available via the SelfAssign process to any Referee that passes the SelfAssign Rules
- Misconduct Report
- The information provided by a Referee that describes Misconduct behavior that occurred during a Match that the Referee was officiating. This includes Cautions (Yellow Card) and/or SendOffs (Red Card).
- Notice
- An information item that is intended for you specifically and normally pertains to your involvement with WAISOA. As an example, the system automatically generates a Notice whenever a Match that you are assigned to has it's Date, Time, or assigned Field changed after you have accepted an Assignment
- Officer
- A User that has been selected to serve on the WAISOA Board of Directors and represent the Chapter membership.
- Option
- An operational setting, value, or indication about how the WAISOA Site should operate. Normally, an Option is defined via the Options table in the database and can contain one or more settings related to:
- Fees
- The compensation associated with completing an Assignment
- Methods
- The default settings for AssignmentMethod for new Matches
- Ranks
- The default value for Match Rank for new Matches
- Rules
- Operational settings for the SelfAssign rules
- Organization
- A group that is responsible for organizing Teams into Leagues and/or Divisions and scheduling Matches between them. Some Chapters identify an Organization as a Conference, etc., depending upon their business model.
- Page
- Represents the resulting HTML from a PHP Script's execution AND all the accompanying elements (.GIF, .JPG, .CSS, etc. files). Each Page from each the Site has a URL, and an identifying Name.
- Period
- Used to describe a grouping of Matches and/or Accounting entries into a logical set of elements that constitutes a billing/payment date range for Organizations/Referees
- Player
- An individual that participates with a Team as an active participant in a sanctioned Match
- Poll
- A named series of questions soliciting feedback from one or more Users about a specific topic or issue
- PollResult
- An individual response filed by a WAISOA User to a Poll
- Position
- A reference to the general responsibilities a Referee accepts when receiving an Assignment. Typically, a Match might require the Positions named Ref (Center Official), AR1, AR2, and possibly a 4th (4th Official), completely dependent upon what the Organization has requested.
- Profile
- A reference to the set of data elements and information associated with a single User of the WAISOA Site. This is where each User stores individualized information and indicates his/her preference for information publication in the Directory.
- Ranking
- a numeric value that establishes the expected complexity and/or difficulty level of a specific Match or a numeric value establishing the difficulty level a specific Referee has mastered.
- Referee
- Describes a User of the WAISOA Site that is licensed to officiate at a sanctioned Match. NISOA is the organization that licenses Referees for WAISOA's purposes
- RidgeStar
- The pseudonym used for the company responsible for designing, implementing, and providing professional operations support for waisoa.org
- Rule
- A specific condition associated with SelfAssign, etc. that must be true in order for the action requested to continue. E.G. The "Available" Rule verifies that the Position being requested is not already assigned to another Referee.
- Season
- A specific period during a playing year that divides a specific combination of League, Level, and Division into a smaller grouping. Examples of Seasons are Playoffs, Tournament, LPTs, Winter, Summer, Spring, Fall, etc.
- Segment
- A named portion of the Site that collects functions and pages related to a specific Role in a common portion of the site.
- SelfAssign
- The actions a Referee takes to get the Site to determine if s/he is eligibled for a specific Assignment. If eligible, the Referee can cause the Site to complete the Assignment (essentially, permitting the Referee to assign himself/herself the Assignment).
- Server
- Identifies a physical RidgeStar system operating a copy of the Apache HTTP Daemon that responds to Internet based requests for service.
- Session
- Defined by PHP. Essentially, uniquely identifies a single Browser's interaction with a single PHP based Site.
- Site
- The specific combination of files containing script (PHP) and graphics (JPG, GIF) available through the HTTP protocol that are combined to meet the WAISOA requirements
- SiteManager
- The identified User that acts as the Webmaster for the waisoa.org and as the primary Point of Contact with RidgeStar with respect to WAISOA operations.
- SiteName
- The unique combination of personal data elements that uniquely identifies a single User to the Site. For waisoa.org this is your first and last name, as defined to WAISOA
- Surface
- Is a term used to describe the type of covering that is on the Field. "Grass", "Dirt" and "Sand" should be obvious. "Turf" represents a smooth artificial surface, whereas "RealTurf" represents the artificial material that simulates grass (incuding the blades of grass) that has become more popular recently.
- System
- Used to describe the basic operating system enviroment of a Visitor, Browser, or Server.
- Team
- A collection of Players that compete together in a League against other Teams
- Term
- A word or series of words that represents a specific element, activity, role, action, etc. when used in the context of waisoa.org
- Text Format
- You can control how the information you enter is displayed by using one or more of the following elements surrounded by brackets [ or ] within the text string you enter:
| String | Meaning or Purpose |
|---|
| ˜ | Treat this character as a Blank or Space |
| b | Make the next word entered BOLD when displayed |
| br | Start a new line in the display |
| i | Make the next word entered italicized when displayed |
| p | Create a new Paragraph beginning with the next word |
| {color} | where {color} can be: Black, Purple, Silver, Fuchsia, Navy, Gray, Green, Blue, White, Lime, Teal, Maroon, Olive, Aqua, Red, or Yellow |
| dus... | Displays current field value from the User's Profile (e.g. dusFirstName, etc.) |
- Time
- Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm
- Turnback
- The act of returning a current Referee Assignment to the pool of available Positions for other Referees to assign themselves to.
- User
- A term used to describe an individual person that is authorized to logon to WAISOA and interact with the system in one or more roles (as a Referee, Assessor School representative, etc.).
- Visitor
- A general term used to describe a single Internet user somewhere using a program (usually a Browser) to access a Site page on a RidgeStar server.
- WAISOA
- The pseudonym we use on the waisoa.org site to represent the Washington State Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (the Washington State Chapter of NISOA)
- waisoa.org
- The Internet Domain name and URL address associated with the Washington State Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association
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