Event-->Racers: Ability to filter by multiple categories

[calvertcruz]

What if someone fell under multiple categories (Women and Expert; Men and Beginner)? Based on this, women beginners would have to race men beginners, etc. The user couldn't race two women beginners if the beginner category is selected from the sort menu. There is no option to categorize competitors in multiple categories.

[evanfarrar]

Cal, the categories should probably be based on what you may want to race by, if you want to do an elimination round for all of the "Women beginners" then it might make sense to put them in a category named "Women's Beginners" instead of two categories named "Women" and "Beginners". I know this isn't the answer you are looking for, but it's going to be the solution for a little while until we all wrap our heads around the new categories and how we'll use it for our events.

[jonfen]

Evan, the problem with that is then you can't do Women's overall best time.

This might be a situation where we can list out the categories to the right with checkboxes (just like on the add racer categories form) which would give the admin the ability to select more than one at once.

While I can't imagine too many more than 5 (Men, Women, Beginner, Sport, Expert) we can always put the checkbox list in a container with a scroll bar.

This would also allow people to see what they are currently filtering, as it stands now, they have to remember what they are filtering by because the screen has no visual queues.

[evanfarrar]

Jon, you could still do a women's best overall time if you had two categories "Women's Junior" and "Women's". and placed all women's juniors in the women's category also. And if you wanted to know who the overall fastest junior was too, you would need a category named "Junior" as well. The key is to create a category representing every category someone could be at the top of, or eliminated from. I know that puts the impetus on the race organizer, but again, I'd like to let the categories feature settle a bit before we re-evaluate the usages of this feature request.

[jonfen]

Can we try my suggestion? You already have it implemented in the add racer screen?

[evanfarrar]

I'd really rather not, the only use case that I can understand so far, figuring out who is on top in an arbitrary combination of categories, is a little too complex to bite off. If the goal is to gather standings for the "Women's Junior" category then wouldn't you expect to see stats pages that are a combination of the women's and junior categories? We've just gone up an order of magnitude of complexity at that point. That sort of blows this ticket up to a level beyond your "just do my implementation" would suggest.