Rolling over to 2013-14

May 23, 2013   by Bryan Plocker

The summer months will soon be upon us, so break out the sunscreen, a good book...and your season rollover checklist!

Here are some common tasks to keep in mind when working on your sites this summer.

Game day rollover

Before you start adding content, you will need to complete Season setup for each sport. The [setup season] link takes you to a page where you are able to review the content types that are located in your Website tab that power Game day. From there you will want to ensure that each section is set up for the current season, your team is added and titles are given (where necessary).

After completing Season setup, you can begin to add content for the season. Some important steps to remember are:

  1. Roster aging  you can age the roster from last season by navigating into the Bios tab and clicking the "import last season" button. Then select or deselect the players you wish to import or leave off the roster, adjust the year of the players (if need be) and choose to either add the synopsis and headshot from the previous year to the new bio. Finally, click “Import” to finish.
    NOTE: you cannot age a roster after new bios have already been added
  2. Adding bios  to add a new player, navigate into the Bios tab and click the "add player" button. To add a headshot, click the "Change" button. You can browse the back end of your site for an image that you have already uploaded or you can upload the image from your computer. The synopsis section at the bottom should be used just like an article: rich. Use this to type or paste in a writeup. Click "Add” to finish.
  3. Adding events  navigate to the “Schedule” tab to add your events. You can either add individual events by clicking [add event], or import multiple events by choosing [import CSV]. When adding teams for individual events, you should choose a team from the drop down. Once you begin to type in the name, team options will become available. After selecting a name, you have the option to customize the name by clicking the “Customize name” button. This feature can be useful when a school has a long network name (University of the Pacific), but you want a shorter version of the team name to show in the schedule (Pacific).
    When importing multiple events, each line of the CSV should have the following fields in this order: Date, Status, Away team, Home team, Conf?, Div?, Exhibit?, Regional?, Notes, Neutral Site.
  4. Adding schedules to a composite files  when viewing your list of events in the Schedule tab, there is a link for your sport page composite and a link for your home page composite atop the table of events. Click the link for the composite file you would like to add a schedule to, and then click the [manage composite schedule] link to the right. Lastly, check the box next to each schedule file you want to add to your composite.
    NOTE: If you are adding schedules to the home page composite, you will first have to select a sport.
    You can also add a schedule to the composite by clicking [add to composite] in the Schedule tab, and then checking the box next to the composite in which you want to add the schedule.

Website rollover

  1. Secondary navigation — after you have finished adding the content for the new season, ensure that the secondary navigation on all sport pages is linking to the updated pages. Edit the sport specific "navbar-secondary" file (found in the Design tab of each sport section) to update the target URL to the new season path (e.g. /sports/mbkb/2013-14/news). Some common links to update include roster, news, schedule/results and stats.

  2. Coaches bios — review the staff directory and/or the coaches index for each sport to add, remove or update any bios as needed. New coaches bios should be created using the “bio: manual” content type, and bios should be featured to the index for each individual sport (e.g. /sports/bsb/coaches/index).
  3. Archives — update your archive page to include content from the most recently completed season.
  4. Roster-footer — if your roster page has a footer, ensure that the /roster-footer file is copied into the new season section for all applicable sports. To copy the footer, check the box next to the file name and click “copy” at the bottom of the page. Then select the section in which to copy the file (e.g. /sports/bsb/2013-14/).
  5. Schedule notes — if your schedule/results pages contain a footer or notes, ensure that those files are copied over to the new season section. Email support if you need any of these features set up on your page.
  6. Conference standings — if you have conference standings on your site, please email support to have them updated.

Site Upgrades

The summer is also a great time to take advantage of features that you may not have had the opportunity to add to your site yet.

Read more about features such as enhanced bios, enhanced forms or the new splash page, and let us know if you would like to start utilizing any of these on your site!

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