So we have a wrap for the “run as a team” (or compete as a team, depending on for what kind of competition you will use the Run4Fun application) functionality. How does it work?
Well you need to have participants and teams registered for an event:
Teams you can register when you check the option in the event:
From there, things work normal as they did. Each participant starts “running” (or doing his thing) and clock the lapse-times.
On the scoreboard however things change:
- first there is a check if the team option is enabled.
- if so, the individual score for each participant is calculated
- then for each team, each score of a team member is aggregated and the team is added to the list.
- most likely a team will achieve a higher score than an individual, so a team will get a higher ranking. Just see for yourself:
So Team Galaxy beat the Coyotes with a minor differentiation ! Even when the coyotees take position 1 and 2 in the individual scoreboard the team effort of the galaxians was higher.
I also added an icon to visualize a team and an individual. I decided to keep the individuals in the list, so individual achievements are easy to observe.
Some work to finish before dropping the code is to link to a team UI, perhaps an XPage that contains the names of the team members. And some clean up otherwise your server logs will get messy.
BONUS
I added a nice history time-line for an event so you get a nice overview what has happened in time:
I will check how much work it is to apply a history timeline to the other objects.