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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Now we can start adding teams into the schedule. Click the ADD TEAM button to create a row that contains a dropdown list of teams. Select a team and then repeat this process until all of the desired teams are selected.
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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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This section is where you will begin to manually create the games for the schedule. To start, click the ADD GAME button.
Here will fill in the game information like Home Team, Away Team, Venue, Start Time, End Time, and Status. The Status will default to Active, but you can change it to any of the options if need be. You can also leave optional comments for each game that will be displayed on the public schedule.
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Once you have filled out the game information, click SAVE and then repeat this process until you have added all the games necessary to the schedule.
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