Controlling the flow of Tagging

As you become more adept at tagging, you will possibly seek to tag a greater range of events and so provide a more complete picture of the events that make up your sport. As your tagging panels grow larger it is worth being aware of how you can control the flow of tagging such that some of your tagging actions will automatically activate or deactivate other relevant tagging panel items.

One example of this can be seen in some of the tagging panels provided by Dartfish. Clicking an event button triggers a tabbed group box revealing value buttons associated with that event.


Reset Category property

Tools with a reset category property can be used to deactivate other continuous event or persistent value tools.

When this tool is clicked, all other buttons using the category specified are reset. In effect, this behavior is similar to that described in the previous section but the tool with the reset category property does not need to have an identical category property to the tool(s) that it will reset. Also, this behavior is one directional – triggering buttons with any given category will not deactivate those buttons with the same reset category.

For example: if player possession is being tagged, events such as 'shot on goal' should reset all buttons with 'player' as a category as no player will have possession.

Be careful with spelling and use of spaces, the reset category you use must match the category of the tools that you wish to reset. However the case used is unimportant.


Trigger property

Unlike the reset category property, the trigger property is used to both activate AND deactivate other tools. It is also specific – rather than influencing all tools with a particular category property, the tool(s) to be triggered are selected from a list of one or more tools that can be activated when this button is clicked.

For example, when a scoring event is tagged the trigger property could be used to activate the tab group box which contains a score tool.