RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Hold System

Hold refers to the period of time when a student is waiting to be matched with a host family. - You have three groups: students, coordinators, and host families. - Coordinators match students with host families. - Students go through different stages of processing. The goals are to: - provide each host family with a student - keep each coordinator busy with three students - make sure each student has a coordinator - make sure students don't get stuck indefinitely in any particular stage Basically, this can end up being a fairly involved project... > -----Original Message----- > Could I get a plain-language explanation of the process of a 'hold'? I'm > not entirely clear what is happening, and what an 'expiry' means in the > context of the hold and what a '#1 position' would represent for a > student.