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CREATING RATING TEMPLATES
Creating Rating Templates
As discussed in ADDING RATING ATTRIBUTES, a "rating template" is merely a collection of rating attributes, or types, that are associated with (in this case) a team. For Luke to create the intended rating template for his Digital Art > Human Illustration team, he makes his way to the page which allows him to modify this team by pulling up the Team Browser again and navigating to the team by clicking on the appropriate right-pointing arrows to create a path to the Digital Art > Human Illustration team.
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Once there, he clicks on the Modify link in the navigation bar on the right of the page. He will then see the same (now filled out) fields that he encountered when he created the team. But this time he is interested in creating a rating template, so the only portion of the form that he focuses on now is the part displayed below, where it is assumed that by this stage he has added all the rating attributes discussed earlier (the form is functional, so go ahead and click on a rating type in the Rating Type Pool then transfer it to the Rating Questions box to see how rating attribute assignment is done):
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In addition to the 4 rating attributes that Luke specifically added to his RatingType table for use with the current team, the Rating Type Pool from which he can select these attributes will contain all other rating attributes as well. It is therefore in his interest to create rating attributes with well-defined meanings so that it is clear to him when and when not to add a particular attribute to a given team.
Once Luke has transferred the 4 rating types of interest from the Rating Type Pool to the Rating Questions box he goes ahead and saves the team information so as to include the new rating template definition. His selection of attributes will then be spelled out in detail on the page, as well as show up in the Rating Questions box, when the saved page is represented. For more information on this entire process, see the Red Queen manual page on the subject of RATING TYPES and Editable Non-Team Fields.
Now that the Digital Art > Human Illustration team has been set up completely, the next step will be for Luke to allow members to add themselves (as artists) to teams of their choice.
Next Section: INTEGRATING MEMBERS
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