Setting up your handbook

Before you start placing things, set up your templates, the reusable styles behind everything that goes on your Handbook map. It’s a one-time setup, done on the web under Handbook Preferences.

There are three template types, one for each kind of thing you’ll map.

Objects

Objects are for point items, anything that sits in one spot: bunker rakes, benches, ball washers, fountains, washrooms, signs. Turfile comes with a set of ready-made objects, so you can start placing them right away. In Preferences you can recolor them, rename them, resize them, or add your own with a custom icon. Add Object lets you name it and either upload an SVG or draw the icon on the built-in canvas.

Lines

Lines are for paths and boundaries you draw: a cart-path route, a hazard line, an edge the crew shouldn’t drive across. Create a line template with a name, a color, a width, and a style (solid, dashed, or dotted), and you’ll draw with it.

Areas

Areas are for filled regions: your parking areas, your no-parking zones, any no-go area you want to mark clearly. Create an area template with a name, a perimeter color, and a fill, then outline the region on the map.

A stock photo and note for the whole type

If every bunker rake on the property should carry the same picture and the same instruction, set it on the template rather than on 400 pins. Each template row in Preferences has a Stock photo & note button.

Add a photo, either from your computer or from Property photos, the photos already in this property’s library, and write the note. The card tells you how many entries this covers before you commit.

Two things happen when you save:

• Everything you place with that template from then on starts with that photo and that note already on it.
• Everything already on the map is brought in line with it.

That second part overwrites whatever notes and photos those entries are carrying, so you get a confirmation with the count first. Anything you want to say about one particular rake, you still add on that rake afterwards.

The photo is stored once and shared, whether it’s on four entries or four hundred, and it carries across to the volunteer map the same way.