MWABA Web Administrator Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: How do I get started with the web page?
Read the User Manual. It doesn't describe all the features, so read the rest of this page for more information.
- Q: Can I include multiple teams in the roster, game, and practice schedule pages?
Yes. Put the line:
Team,Junior Varsity
before the JV roster/schedule. You can use whatever team name you want and have as many teams as you want. You can also change the default title 'Varsity' by declaring a different team name before the first roster/schedule.
- Q: Does the roster page have to show all the columns?
No. You can hide the display of the Jersey, Position, Height, and Weight columns. To hide Weight, include the line
HIDE,WEIGHT
at the beginning of the roster and this column will not appear. If you have multiple rosters (see above), different teams can display different columns. For example
Team,Varsity
player information.....
Team,Junior Varsity
HIDE,JERSEY
HIDE,POSITION
HIDE,HEIGHT
HIDE,WEIGHT
player information.....
displays all the information for the varsity teamm, but only player name and year for the JV team. Note that this must appear BEFORE any player information to prevent a blank column from appearing.
- Q: Tennis doesn't have ties. Does the game results have to show ties?
No. You can hide ties by including the line
HIDE,TIES
at the beginning of the game file. If you have multiple teams in the list (see above), different teams can allow ties or not (for example, Varsity games may have sudden death overtimes and JV games just record ties).
Thus each team must specify whether they want to display ties. In the following example, neither JV nor Varsity have ties:
Team,Varsity
HIDE,TIES
game information.....
Team,Junior Varsity
HIDE,TIES
game information.....
- Q: Does the player gallery page have to show all the players?
No. You can hide individual players by adding the keyword HIDE after their Weight in the roster.txt file. For example,
1,Bucky,Badger,Mascot,7'1",220,HIDE
Note even if you don't include the height and weight, you must have blank fields for this to work. For example,
1,Bucky,Badger,Mascot,,,HIDE
- Q: Can I post schedules for team snacks/drinks and concessions?
Yes, We now have support to post a "Snack Schedule" and a "Concessions Schedule". Please use the admin page to enable, access and update these files.
- Q: Our game was cancelled due to weather. Can I put this on the game schedule?
Yes. Just put "POSTPONED" as the West score (Score us).
- Q: Can I add phone numbers for the coaches?
Yes, you can put phone numbers and other contact info in the fourth column of the coaches.txt file. This will appear under the coaches title.
Bucky,Badger,Head Coach,555-1212
- Q: Can I add bios for the coaches?
Yes. You can add bios at the end of the coaches.txt file and they will appear below the coachs' pictures. Use the following syntax:
BIO,Reggie
Coach Reggie is the Madison West mascot, yada yada yada.
- Q: Can I organize my team news page with headings and bullets?
Yes. You can format the page using directives as shown below in this example news page.
# Team News page
# Lines that start with a single '#' are comments and will not appear
# Lines that start with '##' indicate a new news item
# Lines that start with '#H' indicate a heading that will appear in bold font
#H This is the first heading
##
This is the first item
##
This is the second item
#H Second heading
##
This is the first item under the second heading.
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This page will end up being formatted as follows:
This is the first heading
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This is the first item
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This is the second item
Second heading
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This is the first item under the second heading.
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- Q: Can I rename the columns on the team Roster page?
Yes. You can rename column headers using the "RENAME" command. For example, Cross Country has runners, not players, and want to record their fastest time, not a position. The following commands make those changes:
RENAME,Player Name,Runner Name
RENAME,Position,Best Time
Also, see above on how to hide unwanted columns.
- Q: Can I rename the columns on the Season Schedule page?
Yes. Follow the instructions above for the Roster page.
- Q: Can I include links to other web pages?
Yes, you can insert links into any of the text type files (e.g., Team News, About the Team, etc.).
# Include a link to the Girls' Track team
<a href="http://mwaba.org/MWABA/Girls' Track/">Girls' Track Home page</a>
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This page will end up being formatted as follows:
- Q: Can I add recipes for team meals to the web site??
Yes. You need to have a PDF version of the recipe (e.g., scan in the recipe or print to PDF). Then upload the PDF file using Upload PDF file on the adminstrator page. When this completes, it will give you a URL that you can link to using the instructions above for linking to other web pages.
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