Record Peals

Record Peals are held in two underlying tables (+ one reference table), maintained by a single form. The data originates from that displayed on the original CCCBR site, which lacks structure and consistency. It is hoped that this can be improved over the course of time.

The list of record peals shows sufficient information for the peal to be identified. Click on the ID to go to the detail page (or NEW ITEM to create a new peal). This allows the following data to be entered.

Label	Details
Method	This should be the method name without the stage name (Minor, Major etc) or (for Spliced) the number of methods. These will be appended by the system for display.
Standard Method	If YES the peal will be included in the ‘Standard Methods’ page.
Stage	Minimus to Twenty-Two currently catered for. For a new stage, this will need to be added into the relevant table by a Database Administrator.
Changes	Number of changes rung. This can be null as the length of some earlier peals is not known, otherwise a minimum value of 5000.
Date	The date rung (or started). This is used to sort peals into date order. There was one peal (40320 Bob Major) which went over two dates in the summary. As this was not displayed as such in the detail pages, this subtle piece of information is not missing. Maybe it should go in a note to the peal?
Methods	Number of methods (for spliced). Will default to 1 (even for principles).
Principles	Number of principles (for spliced). If methods+principles > 1 then (e.g.) ‘(1m/1v)’ will be displayed after the method name.
All-the-work	if YES ‘All the work’/'(atw’) will be displayed
Category	First Peal, Record Length, Surpassed Record or Other
In Hand	YES if a hand bell peal
Location	Location of the method (e.g. Tower/County or as appropriate for handbell peals)
RW Ref	Ringing World Reference. [TODO. There is also provision for a bellboard reference, but this is currently disabled]

Detail Pages Information is displayed on the Detail Pages.

Enable Details Page	If YES, then a link to a details page is enabled in the summary page
Society	Society rung for
Tower	Tower (or location for handbells)
Time	Time for the peal. Format is h[h]:mm
Composer	Name of composer.
1 to 16	Ringer. For handbells 1 will display as 1-2, 2 as 3-4 etc in the display ed page
Footnote	Any footnote to the peal. Free format.
Umpires	One per line please
Composition	Composition. Free format text. This is best pasted in from a separate document. On the display page it will be free format text.

The Record Peal pages are all displayed using a single short-code (

), with current pages as per the current site. However, as this is now pulled from a database, the peals form a single list ordered by method, stage and number of changes.

The short code has several optional parameters which control what is displayed.

inhand	TRUE: Include handbell peals only FALSE: Include tower bell peals only NULL (default): Include both
include	A list of categories to be included. Default is ‘first, surpassed, long’. The other category is ‘other’.
standard	TRUE: Include standard methods only FALSE: Exclude standard methods NULL (default): Include all methods
stagefr	The lowest stage to include (default is 0), e.g. 4 for minimus, 12 for maximums Spliced caters/royal is 9.5!
stageto	The highest stage to include (default is 99). Currently this goes up to 22.