Dances
Use the Dances tab to say how well you know each dance, and whether you want to do it. It’s a grid like the ticksheet. The repertoire, every dance the side does, runs down the left, and the dancers run across the top.
If you’re not down as a dancer, your column may be hidden. Press View: Dancers, beside the zoom, to show everybody.
An answer on the ticksheet is about one day. An answer here stays until you change it.
Dances the side no longer does sit in a band at the bottom, under No longer in the repertoire. You can still answer them. They can come back into the repertoire.
Your answers
Tap a cell to answer. A box opens with two questions and a line for a note. Each answer saves as soon as you pick it.
The two questions are separate. You can be confident in a dance and still not like it, or love one you can’t do yet. Either can be left blank.
How well do you know it? has six answers:
Confident or Nearly there: You could do it.
More practice, Refresher please, Needs teaching or What's that?!: Not yet. Each one tells whoever teaches what sort of help you need.
Do you want to do it? has five: Love it, Happy to, Don't mind, Under duress or Don't like.
Anything to add? takes one line for anything else, like “not leading” or “only in second corner”. You can add one with any answers, or with none.
You can only fill in your own column, unless you can edit the dances. That’s an admin, and whoever holds an office that edits them (the offices table says which).
The total
The Totals column is at the end of each row. Its first line, could do it, counts everybody who answered Confident or Nearly there, less anybody who said Don't like.
Under duress still counts, since they’ll do it if asked nicely.
For example, 9 people answer Confident or Nearly there, and 1 of them says Don't like. The first line says 8 could do it.
The second line counts everybody who said Confident, whether or not they like it. A third, not said, counts anybody who hasn’t answered, and only appears when there is somebody.
Positions
A set is the dancers up together for a dance, and each has a position in it. The positions are numbered from 1. You can answer for each one, so you can be happy in one position and not in another.
- Press the + beside a dance’s name. A row opens for each position, starting at Position 1.
- Tap your cell in a position’s row, and answer as you would for the whole dance.
- Press the − to close the rows.
What you say about a position is separate from what you say about the whole dance. Changing one doesn’t change the other. Each position has its own total.
A dance only has positions once it says how many it’s for. Whoever can edit the dances presses Edit this dance on its page and fills in Dancers in a set.
The positions strip
Once somebody has said how well they know a position, or whether they want it, a narrow strip appears at the right-hand edge of their cell. It has a box for each position, with position 1 at the top.
The box: How well they know that position, in the same colours as the cell.
The square inside it: Whether they want it.
A white box: They haven’t said how well they know it.
The square is:
- green for Love it or Happy to
- grey for Don't mind
- brown for Under duress
- red for Don't like
For example, a strip that’s green all the way down, with red squares in the bottom two boxes, means they know every position but would rather not be in the last two.
The strip stays while the dance is open. On a computer, hover over it to see the answers in words.
Dances for one dancer, or for more than twelve, don’t get a strip.
A dance’s own page
Tap a dance’s name to open its page. It’s laid out in the order you’re likely to need things:
- Danced to: the tunes it’s played to
- Who can do it: everybody’s answers, grouped by answer
- How it goes: files and links showing how it’s done
- Notes and Where it came from, if anybody has written them
- History: every edit to its details, behind the button at the foot of the page
How it goes is files and links rather than typed text. It might be the figures as a PDF or photo, a recording, or a link to something that can’t be uploaded.
Recordings get a player, so you can listen without downloading anything. Anything typed into the old notation box is still there and still shown.
To add or remove a file, you need to be able to edit the dances:
- Press Edit this dance on its page.
- Use Upload to add a file, or the cross beside one to remove it.
Both happen straight away, without waiting for Save. Removing a file can’t be undone, so it asks first. That’s why the crosses are only on the edit screen, not on the page everybody reads.