Concepts and glossary

Audience: Anyone new to orienteering timing, or new to how Manager models it.

Defines the orienteering terms and Manager-specific concepts used throughout the rest of the documentation.

Status: Stub — not yet written.

What this page will cover

Orienteering terms, as Manager uses them:

• [ ] Event, stage, day
• [ ] Class (e.g. M21E, W18A)
• [ ] Course
• [ ] Control and control code
• [ ] Radio control (and why they're indexed by position, not code)
• [ ] Punch — electronic vs. manual
• [ ] Start, finish, split
• [ ] Leg and relay teams
• [ ] Competitor, club
• [ ] DNF, DNS, MP, OK, InForest — competitor status values

Manager-specific concepts:

• [ ] The three modes of an event: Setup, Live, Archive — what each means and what's allowed in each
• [ ] Global entities vs. event-scoped entities
• [ ] Replay mode (for training and testing with a captured data file)
• [ ] Extensions and plugins
• [ ] Screens vs. the operator UI
• [ ] Leaderboard vs. Results page — spectator-facing vs. operator-facing views of the same data

Cross-reference: the authoritative rules for how status and race time are derived live in Status and race time rules.