Tours Admin
Admin Tours
In the menu there are 2 links that can be used
Tour Add
A tour can be added with the "TourAdd" left hand menu function.
The core items to set are the title and the list of rides.
Enabled - Make sure this is ticked
The "Enabled" checkbox on both Rides and Tours enables these so they are actually shown in the normal lists that people see. It allows a ride to be added and edited and then published.
Title - The name of the Tour
Group - There is a dropdown menu of all the different groups within which this tour can be stored , select Touring unless you specifically want it within aanother group, but remember this will make it harder to find
List of ride numbers - The Rides List is a comma separate list of ride ID's. Once added the "TourList" function will list all tours and provide a simple automatically generated view of the tour listing the individual rides. So for example if the rides you want to link are 60, 61,62 and 64 put 60,61,62,64 Put them in the order of the tour. You can find the number of the rides from 2 places. 1) In the Ride EditList look at the ID number which is the second column. 2) The number at the end of the URL for the ride its number
Text Box - Use this to describe the tour
Pictures - The Tour has a "index.html" file that can be edited to add text and pictures etc.
These are labelled Picture0 to Picture5. To add, either drag a picture into the drag and drop box, or use the select button to upload one. Formats accepted are PNG and JPEG. There is no need to resize (reduce the number of pixels) these as the program will do these for you. Please be careful with the pictures as if you load a very tall one and 5 other landscape pictures of various sizes the result isn't great to look at. At present it isn't possible to move these pictures around within the program, but each can be overwritten, so plan ahead.
Postcode - Add this for the start of the tour. The easiest way is to look at google and click on the nearest icon to the start, this will give the postcode
Location - Where does the tour start, add this
Quality - See the quality help section, add this
Category - Not yet enabled
Date - This is a carry over from individual rides. It is the date that the ride will be ridden as in a regional event
Date Added - This is automatically added
User ID - This is the membership number of the person adding the tour
Email address - The email address of the person adding the tour, so that they can be contacted
Personal - This is for Admin tours that may be out of scope of the UK, so are not shown, so as not to clutter up the system. For example if a tour is added in Australia, it will make the initial map of the UK very small
Private to Group - Relates to events. This keeps the tour private until it is ready for public release
Modified Date
ModifiedUserID
Finally Save any changes made
Tour Edit List
You can search using the box and the Search button
Action Sel
V - View
E - Edit
D - Delete
ID - Number of the tour
Enabled - Visible
Title - Name of the tour
Group - Which group the tour is in , default is ideally Touring
Location - The starting point of the tour
User - Membership number of the person who put the tour up
Private to Group - Applicable if an event, so need to delay , should be 0
Date - Date when will be ridden if an event etc
Date Published - Date put up on the site
Notes
Continous line
The individual GPX files shold run together in a tour and these will show on the map as a single coloured line
There are problems if this isn't the case. You will know this with two warnings.
1) The individual rides comprising the tour will show up as different colours
2) There will something next to Ride Length which will tell you that there is a gap of over 100metres between 2 of the GPX traces of 2 neighbouring rides. There will also be a northings and eastings value
To Correct there are two ways
1) Look closely at the junction between the rides, zoom in and check. If there is a distance betwwen them, then you will need to adapt the GPX of the individual rides so that they start and finish within 100 metres of eachother
2) You can create a temporary place of interest (suggest caution) using the northings and eastings provided. If you reload the map this will show you the point where the distance is too great
If you do alter anything you have to press the Recalculate button at the bottom of the page to reset the tour and see if your changes have worked
More Information
Also extra pages, documents and directories can be added to the tour information.
Source Code
Within the page three special scripts can be used (Use Source editing to view and edit):
| <websys>tourRidesList(9)</websys> | Display a list of rides for the Tour ID given |
| <websys>tourRide(22,33)</websys> | Display an individual ride passing the ride id and a number to include at the start of the title |
| <websys>itemListAdd(200,tours,9)</websys> | Display the news for the tour with given ID |