The Program tab of a stay is where you write down what will be done, day by day. It is also what visitors read on the camp's public page, and what the scores will rest on.
Where games are created
A game is not created on its own: it comes from an activity. The family you choose decides the tool.
| Family | The tool it opens |
|---|---|
| Bible game | Bible Challenges: rounds, tournament, ticket-based entry |
| Big game | Checkpoint course: QR in the field, passage times |
| Tournament | Pools, knockout bracket, standings |
| Stage, Debate | Weighted jury and audience vote |
The sequence is always the same: create the activity with the right family, and the tool's button appears on its card, with its name. The form tells you so the moment you pick the family.
The other families (workshop, spiritual, service) have no tool: they are checked and scored by hand, from the recording button.
An activity belongs to a family
Eight families, and that is not a decorative label.
| Family | What it is | Counts by default |
|---|---|---|
| Big game | Capture the flag, trail game, Bible treasure hunt | Points, by team |
| Tournament | Football, volleyball, races | Ranking, by team |
| Bible game | Bible Challenges, sword drill, verses to memorise | Points, individual |
| Debate | One topic, two sides, a jury | Ranking, by team |
| Stage | Talent night, sketch, choir | Ranking, individual |
| Workshop | Music, media, crafts, cooking | Attendance |
| Spiritual | Preaching, vigil, prayer | Attendance, always |
| Service | Social action, clean-up, visits | Attendance |
Picking a family sets the usual scoring mode and whether it is played in teams. These are suggestions, not laws: you change them in one click, except for the spiritual family.
We do not score prayer
A spiritual activity is recorded by attendance, and there is no way to give it points. The rule is enforced by the server, not merely greyed out on screen.
The reason fits in one sentence: attending a vigil feeds the young person's record, never the competition. A ranking of the most diligent in prayer would turn into a contest something that must not be one.
Building the program
Each day of the stay has its own section, in order. The Add button opens the form.
- The family first: it sets everything else.
- The title. Ready-made suggestions appear under the field, depending on the family. Clicking one fills the title; write your own if you prefer.
- The day, the start and end times, the place.
- How it is counted: points, ranking or attendance, and by team or individually.
- The description, if the activity deserves an explanation.
Remove, never erase
The archive button takes the activity off the program without erasing it. It disappears from the screen and from the public page, but it stays in the database.
Same reason as for teams: an activity may already have been played, and the participations attached to it must stay attachable. The Show removed activities box brings them back, struck through, with an arrow to put them back.
A past day no longer changes
Until the date arrives, change whatever you like. Once the day has passed, its activities freeze: no more editing, no more removing, and nothing more can be added to that day.
That is what makes it possible to say later what was actually played, on which day, and in what form. A program rewritten afterwards proves nothing.
What visitors see
The program can appear on the camp's public page, grouped by day, with the time, the title and the place.
It is only shown if you ask for it. The Show the program on the public page box, at the top of the tab, is unticked by default, and that is deliberate: a program is built weeks ahead and keeps moving while families register. Publishing a version that changes every day would make your church look disorganised, and would push you to prepare nothing in the tool rather than prepare in peace. Build it calmly, publish when it is settled. The setting applies to this stay only.
Not shown: scores, teams, scoring mode. The page announces what is planned, never who won.
It is a selling point as much as information: a family decides on what will be done with their child, and "Bible treasure hunt on Tuesday" says more than a paragraph of presentation.