The Roster is where you organize your Groups and Roles.
Group
Groups can be defined as either Exclusive, or Non-Exclusive. The names for these can be defined in the admin, with with the defaults being:
- Assignment = Exclusive
- Department = Non-Exclusive
A player can be in one Exclusive group at a time and in several Non-Exclusive groups at the same time.
Once a Group is created in either form, it cannot be changed to the other.
Group has a handful of fields:
- Name
- Full name of the Group
- Acronym
- Shorthand for the group name, also used in the ident string
- Group Type
- Assignment / Department
- Parent
- Higher Group or none
- Rank Set
- Defaults to "Use the Org Default" but is definable for situations where a group would use a different Rank set
- Description
- Markdown enabled description text for the group
The purpose of Groups is to organize players, so Groups also have definable Roles.
Role
The default Roles created automatically are:
Role has a handful of fields which can be set:
- Name
- Full name of the Group
- Acronym
- Shorthand for the group name, also used in the ident string
- Leadership
- Toggle to indicate Role is for Leadership.
- This grants access to various Leadership tools in the platform
- Singular
- Toggle to indicate this Role can only be filled once in this Group