This section is documenting everything an Administrator can do in PLAY
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To create a schedule, click the + CREATE button on the top right.
You will be prompted to fill in information about your schedule such as Name, Season, Type, Office, and Start/End Dates. Once you select your office, 3 more boxes will appear for Division, Gender, and Category.
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After entering all of this information, click the SAVE button and you will be brought into the schedule.
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Generating a schedule automatically creates a schedule for you after providing some information and selecting participating teams.
Schedule Info
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First you will need to enter some schedule information. Confirm the Schedule name, specify the Type of rotation (single or double), set the Start Date, Total Weeks, and Starting Number for the schedule. The Starting the Number will be the first game in the schedules number. Each game number after that will be sequentially added by 1.
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You have the ability to select a Previous Draft, which is a schedule that you have started but not yet completed. You can also add schedule breaks by click the + ADD button under Breaks, where you specify the Start Date and Total Weeks of the break duration.
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Once you have entered all of this information, click NEXT to move on to the step.
Select Teams
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Now it’s time to Select Teams for the schedule. Click the + ADD TEAM button to create a row for adding a team. Add a row for each team participating in the schedule. There should not be any duplicate teams.
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To help simplify this process, you have the ability automatically add teams into the schedule by clicking the USE EXISTING TEAMS button. This will only work if there are already teams existing within the schedule. Teams can be added to the schedule manually in the schedules Teams tab, or if a partial schedule has been created then those teams will be added as well.
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You can also fill each teams home ice information by clicking the FILL ICE TIMES button, and all of the selected teams will have their home ice information automatically inserted.
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Once you have completed the team selection, click NEXT to proceed.
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Review Games
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You will now see all of the games that have been generated for this schedule, along with their game information. In the section, you have full control of changing most things that were generated to your liking.
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Clicking on any game will bring up its information, where you are able to modify the games Home and Away Teams, Venue, and Start/End Dates and Times. You can also change the games Status to correlate with any changes that have been made. Make sure to click SAVE on the bottom right to save the changes.
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You have the ability to manually set multiple games as a conflict with ease. To do this, select 1 or more checkboxes beside a game and then click SET CONFLICT on the top right.
You can also do the opposite and set conflicted games to active by selecting 1 or more checkboxes beside a game with a conflict, and then click SET ACTIVE on the top right.
To easily view all of the games with a conflict status, simply click the Show conflicts only toggle button on the top left.
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If you ever need to quickly swap the arena of 2 games, you can do so by selecting the checkboxes of the desired games and then click SWAP ICE on the top right.
The game details will all stay the same except for the home and away teams. The home team from each game will swap, and the away team from each game will swap.
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Finally, lets analyze the generated schedule by clicking ANALYZE on the bottom left.
Here you will be able to view some analytics of the schedule such as Summary, New Matchups, and Byes.
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When you have finished analyzing the generated schedule, click CLOSE on the bottom right of the Analytics window and then click NEXT on the bottom left of the Review Games page.
Publish
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The final step in this process is to publish the generated schedule. This section gives you some further details about the schedule before you officially publish it. It will showcase any new Teams, Changed Games, and New Games being added to the schedule.
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A confirmation window will pop up to publish this schedule. Click PUBLISH to successfully create a generated schedule.
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It is highly recommended to use all of these headings and information when uploading your schedule if applicable. This will save you from having to insert information later in the process.
Schedule Info
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Once you have entered into schedule upload, drag and drop your .CSV file where it says Drop your schedule file (.csv) here. You can also click that area to open up the file browser.
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The uploader will find all of the matching headers and fill them for you. If you named any of your headers incorrectly, that column will be left blank. To fill them in, click one of the blank columns and a dropdown of headers from your file will appear. Select the appropriate header that matches the one you are trying to fill.
You may leave some columns blank. In this example, we didn’t have the headers for Status or Comments. These headers aren’t required however they can be utilized if necessary.
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Once you have finished selecting your columns, click NEXT on the bottom left.
Select Teams
This section ensure ensures that the uploader matched the right teams from the file to the database. On the left are the names of the teams the uploader found from the file, and on the right are the teams it matched to from the database.
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In this example, you will notice that the Montreal Canadians did not get a match from the database. This happened because the team stored in the database is spelled differently, and contains an é instead of an e in Montreal.
If any teams come up are blank on the right side, click the text area and select the appropriate team from the dropdown list to match the teams.
Once you have finished matching the teams, click NEXT to continue.
Review Games
Click Here to go to the Review Games section
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