Welcome To Deacon

Welcome to Deacon a cloud base tool to help your course make data informed decisions. This introduction will give you an overview of the basics of the tool.

DEACON is broken down into three main area's; Map, Calendar, Dashboard, and Settings. You can use this navigation to load the different screens. The search bar will allow you to search for Facilities, Courses, and Championships.

The basis for your account in Deacon is built upon two foundational elements; Organizations & Facilities. Your organization is a collection of users that can create and edit data together. Anything that you create or edit belongs only to your collection of users.

Facilities make up a collection of courses. The course can have many attributes such as different course versions for designs, sensor measurements, applications or hole locations and championships.

Using an example let's take a facility Latrobe Country Club. We can create two unique organizations Latrobe, and USGA. In this case the organization of Latrobe would have access to a version of the facility where all their maintenance and daily records are stored. The organization USGA would have access to a different version of the facility where they can setup hole locations for an upcoming championship. In this case neither Latrobe Organization can see the data USGA entered, and vice versa.

There are two primary pathways to get started with Deacon; Hole Location Journey or Data Collection.

If you are getting started with Data Collection a first step would be to set your course setup under the Settings --> Course Setup tab. Here you can set your upper and lower limits for your metrics reporting, select your clipping yield units, and your cultivar type.

Once you have these settings you can proceed to starting your data collection journey with Jobs or Metrics