Next game is wrong

Hi Julie,
Thanks for writing and finding the bug. I was using the server time in a couple of places I should have been using the WP time. That’s been corrected (I think) and the fixes have been uploaded to the development version on www.remarpro.com. Please test them out and let me know if the problem is fixed before I issue the changes in a formal release.

Let me know. Thanks.

-Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the quick reply. I uploaded the new files and it seems to have worked. The table colors were blue and the Game Display Settings>Colors wouldn’t override them, but I took care of that with CSS.

One other question which I don’t think can be fixed – at the start of the gametime, it changes to the next/upcoming game. You can’t set a time or have this switch at midnight of that day? Not a big deal, just wondering.

Thanks again for the plugin. I have a number of sports sites and I may use on a new one I’m planning.

Julie

Hi Julie,
The CSS takes priority over the display settings. They are the site default, but you can override the default for specific tables using the stylesheets. There are examples of that on the MSTW Dev site, but I just over-wrote the fancy CSS (it’s not part of the standard distro) so I have to put it back. Be there soon.

The game time issue can certainly be “fixed”. The question is how. If you use midnight, say, what happens if there are two games on the same day? A tournament maybe? Rare, I agree, but people use these plugins in many strange and mysterious ways. ?? And what about the Countdown Timer? Does it show negative time to the next game at that point? (JK just another detail.) The next release is going to be “Schedules & Scoreboards”. There will be the ability to mark a game final, so I may be able to tie something in there.

If you are using that plugins heavily, you may want to check out Gold Support. Your questions are pretty sophisticated for just starting out. ??

-Mark

Hi Julie,
My previous post was sorta right and sorta wrong. (Sorry)

First, the biggest problem was that an important piece of code got ‘lost’ in my state-of-the-art change control system. ?? Please pull mstw-game-schedules.php from the development version on www.remarpro.com.

Second,

The CSS takes priority over the display settings. They are the site default, but you can override the default for specific tables using the stylesheets.

Well, yes and no. The display settings override the default styles in the stylesheet. However, you can override the display settings with CSS style rule IF you use the more specific tags. For example, mstw-gs-table-head_team-slug instead of mstw-gs-table-head. mstw-gs-table-head WILL be overridden by the display settings, mstw-gs-table-head_team-slug will NOT.

Hope that makes sense. (I really need to do a video tutorial on this for Gold Support!)

-Mark

Thanks, Mark, I have swapped out the game-schedules.php file with your new one. My issue was that the Display settings wasn’t overriding that new default blue. I already handled that with custom css, though. I have a div around one of the tables so I used that for a more specific result, but I appreciation your information.

I understand that you need to figure out flexible options as far as your upcoming game list. I haven’t used the countdown, so I’m not familiar with how the two work together. For my purposes, which is HS, this is being used to check game time/place, so isn’t too helpful if someone is running late and is double checking the location or to check that there is a game and at a glance it looks like their isn’t one. This concept seems more common/practical than a tournament, but I get what you’re saying. Maybe an option for each game as to when it’s considered ‘past’ – obviously this would need to be a generic time period, like 2 or 3 hours or check if this is considered over at the end of the day. If there were 2 games the same day, as you mentioned, I think I’d want them both listed until midnight. Just my opinion!

thanks again!

Thanks. Right, the reason the display settings weren’t overriding the defaults is because the display settings weren’t being loaded properly. The new version should have fixed that. (??)

Thanks for your input on ‘game over’ scenarios. I have to think about it because the new Game Scoreboards functionality will support a ‘live game updates’ function where the scoreboards can be updated dynamically by a spectator/parent during a game. They will be able to mark a game final, which will solve the issue for games on a scoreboard. (All games do not need to be on a scoreboard.) Maybe a game will show ‘In Progress’ from start time to start time plus 3 hours, then go to final (unless marked final earlier), at which point it will be removed from upcoming games schedules like yours, but not from scoreboards.

-Mark