Console Theme Dashboard Map Panel

The console theme dashboard map panel helps you define which console dashboards will be used throughout your tournament. This panel is a sub-panel of the console control panel.

Rather than associating levels of your betting schedule directly to console dashboards, you associate them to a "map". That map then defines which models are used.

You can do it in three easy steps:


Examples

Example 1: Simple Hold'em tournament

Example 2: HORSE tournament


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS


Q: Why can't you just select the console models directly from your tournament? What's the value of doing it this way?
A1:
This makes it easier to change what models are used on different levels. Let's say you told each even-numbered level on your betting schedule to use the model called "EvenLevel1". Now you want to change it to "EvenLevel2"... If the blind schedule we related directly to the console dashboards, you'd have to change *every* level, one at a time. With this mechanism, you might associate every even level to "C1" and every odd level to "C2". Now, if you change your mind about which model to use, you just need to update the map below to use a different model for "C1"
A2:
This separates the "look and feel" (the console theme) from the tournament. To get a different look and feel for a tournament, you just tell that tournament to use a different theme and the betting schedule picks up the changes automatically.
A3: This keeps the betting schedule cleaner...especially when it comes to multiple console dashboards per level.
A4: This makes it easier to copy betting schedules from one repository to another without worry about the model names having to be valid.
Q: What do "Pre", "Play", "Break" and "Post" mean?
A: These are default maps. Each segment on your betting schedule falls into one of the four categories: - Pre-schedule segment - Play segment - Break segement - Post-schedule segment If you do nothing with your betting schedule (if you don't specify which map a segment should use), then each segment will default to the console dashboard map for its type.
Q: What if my betting schedule references a map for which I haven't associated any models? What if the betting schedule uses the default maps and I haven't associated models to the default maps?
A: Then the core models supplied with the application will be used.
Q: What are "C1" through "C<X>"?
A: Those are custom maps. Unlike the default maps, they aren't used by a level on the betting schedule unless you specifically tell the level to use them.
Q: Can I associate multiple models with a map? What happens if I do that?
A: Yes you can. If you associate multiple models with a map, then the app will periodically switch between models for you using the "rotation delay" you've specified with that console theme.

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