home team listed in schedule table shortcode?

Hi,
Regarding question #1, do you mean something like this https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/school-sports-schedule/?

Regarding question #2, do you mean something like this https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/schedule-tables/?

-Mark

#1, so I would use ‘sport_name’ to indicate the team name?

#2 – Yes, I didn’t see that shortcode info on the manual. That’s perfect assuming I can list multiple schedules and multiple ‘sport name’ to show the multiple teams.

Thank you for your quick response.

#1 – Not exactly. You list the schedule (slugs) you want to display. I just happened to name the schedules by sport on the dev site.

#2 – You just list the multiple schedules. There are no “sport names” in MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards.

Sorry, I’m confused.
I don’t see any other way to list the ‘home team’, as well as the the opponent, other than to create a ‘sport’ based on the team name. If so, how is that done?

This is fine, except for the additional work of having to create a sport with Home Team as well as a ‘team’ with the Home Team.

The issue is we have many different levels of teams.
Ie.
Novice team 1, 2 and 3
Atom team 1
Bantam etc.

So, when I list the schedules for all of them in the table, I need to see which team has a game. Currently it only shows the opponent and assumes only one team. So if you can clarify how to list the ‘team’ as part of the schedule table other than creating a sport to mimic it, that’d be great.

Otherwise, this is a fine alternative.

Maybe I’m confused. Are you trying to create a schedule that looks like this: https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/school-sports-schedule/ ??

If so:
a. Forget about creating a sport. There is nowhere to “create a sport” in the MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards plugin.

b. What I did for the above link, was create teams with names like “Swimming & Diving”, “Girls Lax”, “Track & Field”, etc. Then I used the shortcode shown in the above link. Ta-da!

c. So you could create teams named “Novice Team 1”, “Atom Team 1”, “Bantam”, etc, and use the shortcode as shown in the above link to get all your teams on one table with each “Home Team” name listed. You will notice that in the shortcode on the link above, more than one schedule slug (team schedule) is provided, that’s how you can get multiple teams shown in one table. Look at the short code there and try it with your teams. I think it will do what you want.

Let me know.
-Mark

I think I see the confusion.
The shortcode says ‘show_sport=1’
There IS an Add Sport to Scoreboard plugin. It’s in the menu under
Games
Teams
Sports
Schedules
Venues….

This is what I assumed show_sport=1 was showing, so I went back and created a sport with the same name as the team.

It was just a coincidence that I created the ‘sport’ with the same name.

All is good.
Thanks.

Sorry. You are absolutely correct. I’m the one who is (was) confused. Here’s how it goes:

1. I created the SPORTS.

2. I created the TEAMS, and assigned a sport to each team. (You can do these steps in either order, but if you create the teams first, you’ll have to go back and assign sports to them later.)

3. I created a SCHEDULE for each team.

4. I added ‘show_sport=1’ to the shortcode.

This was created for exactly the situation shown in the previous link. Schools and clubs wanted to show all their teams/sports on one schedule. You can do the same thing with the schedule sliders. The sport does not change in this example, but you’ll get the idea.

Sorry for all the confusion.My only (lame) excuse is that I am deep into the League Manager plugin at the moment, and its sports, teams, schedules, etc are similar but different. Mea culpa.

-Mark

Hi Mark
Everything is working very well with the plugin.
Is it possible to have an ‘end time’ to the schedule? Some games have different time lengths depending on the level. Is that possible?

Thanks again for your help.

Great.

The current plugin does not support an end time for games.

-Mark

I see that.
I was hoping to use the ‘custom’ option in the timestamp in the plugin to
alter/customize the output of the date format to be a range
ie. y/m/d 00:00:00 – 00:00:00 rather than just y/m/d 00:00:00 in the schedule table format.

Is that possibly an option? That would work.

Well, how would the plugin know what the second “00:00” should be? There would have to be a data field for the game duration or end time.

OK. I need the field.

Option one (hack)…can I use the remaining time field in the game fields and use it in the schedule table to display the end time?

2. I pay you to customize it to have an additional time field.

Let me know what my options are.

Going back to my previous message about the ‘custom’ option you have set up in the time field. You have an option to enter in a shortcode for the time. Is it possible for the custom field to just be a text field? Then it could be in that format?
Just thinking out loud. Trying not to complicate things to get this feature.

Thanks for you quick responses.
Debbie

It really depends on what you want (or can live with). The plugin is very flexible, so you could probably override an existing data field for your purposes. In that case you would have to add an “End Time” column to you tables.

If you want a column that looks like your previous post,with the start and end times in the same column, that would be a custom code upgrade. Assuming you are willing donate the code back to the core plugin, I will commit to get it done for the price of the “Do it for me” support option on shoalsummitsolutions.com. BTW, you really want the upgrade in the core so it works in future releases.

Yes, the new end time would be a text field, so you could format it however you wish. You would add it to a table via a new shortcode argument.

Regards,
-Mark

I’m easy. I can override or pay for your troubles.
Can you email me directly so we can discuss options?