Gender Classifications in Web

 

Additional gender options can now be established in Sportsman.  Specifically, you can add additional customized options such as Not Listed, Prefer Not To Say, Transgender, etc.  By default, the options remain Male and Female.

If you do not need to or desire not to record gender in your environment, you can choose to remove the Gender field from the in-house application, ActivityReg or both.

Establishing best practices would dictate you define the fewest number of options.  If gender is a sensitive topic in your market and you don’t really need it, we recommend you simply remove it from system configuration.  Do not remove it by simply deleing all the options under File Maintenance, but rather remove the gender selection option from your site configuration.  Any gender information collected will be available in reporting. 

 

This Document will cover:

ü  Adding Gender Options

ü  Removing Gender Entry

 

Adding Gender Options

Navigate to Define > System > Gender to define additional options to the Gender table or modify existing options.  Use the [Add] [ Edit] [Delete] options to alter Gender options presented to the user. Note that the abbreviation for each gender (which will show in reporting) is only a single letter or number.  Special characters are also allowed in this field.     Changes in the Gender table will be reflected in the Patron account gender selection drop down in Sportsman and on your ActivityReg website.

 

 

Removing Gender Entry

If you do not want to assign patrons to a gender either in house or on ActivityReg you can remove the option of Gender Entry altogether.  This change will need to be completed in the Sportsman Desktop Application, and can be made by navigating to File > Administration > Site Configuration and the ‘Group Settings’ tab.  Select the appropriate Gender Entry setting from the drop-down menu depending on whether you want it to show up.  The setting choices are described below

 

Both In-House and ActivityReg: This will show the gender field both in the Sportsman application and on ActivityReg and the choices defined in your Gender Table will be provided for selection.

 

In-House Only: This will allow gender selection by your recreation staff, but this will not show on ActivityReg to your patrons.

 

ActivityReg Only: This will only allow gender selection by patrons themselves on your website

 

Never: The gender field will simply NOT be displayed for selection at all.  If you remove the Gender Entry here, this will negate any setting for Gender as a required field if you have established that for your members.  To view required fields, select the [Set Required Fields for New Members] button.   If you remove the field from showing please note that historical information collected on gender will still exist and be available for reporting.   If you have a need to delete all historical gender data, please call us for assistance.

 

 

Important: After selecting a new setting that will affect ActivityReg, force the configuration by navigating to Define > Force Configuration Update.

 

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