E-LETTER BACK ISSUES

Issue 27 - February 16, 2001

This is the Schedule Star and HighSchoolSports.Net weekly newsletter.
Tips and tricks for using Schedule Star to your best advantage.

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In this issue...
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NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS AUTOMATED
ENTERING GAME SCORES
TOURNAMENT CONTRACT PRINTING

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NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS AUTOMATED

If you visited our website's News page this week, you may have noticed a new field where you can enter your email address to subscribe to this E-Letter. Subscribing (and unsubscribing) is now fully automated.

Changing your email address? Go to the News page, click the "Click here to unsubscribe" message, and enter your old email address into the field provided, then click UNSUBSCRIBE. This will remove your old address from the subscriber list. You will receive an email confirming that you successfully unsubscribed.

Now, return to the News page and enter your new email address into the box provided and click SUBSCRIBE. Your new address will automatically be added to the subscriber list. You will also receive an email confirmation.

We hope this new system will make subscribing and unsubscribing from this E-Letter faster and more convenient, especially if you'd like to add other users in your school to the subscriber list.

Enjoy!

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ENTERING GAME SCORES

The Sporting Event screen includes a Scoreboard area for entering game results into Schedule Star.

To enable this feature, select one of your games and click EDIT to open the Sporting Event screen. At the bottom of the window, click the "Scoreboard" box to activate the field below. The first field is labeled with your school's name; the second is labeled for the opponent for this contest. You can either use the spinner buttons to increase or decrease the score, or just click into each box and type the scores. Click OK to save the scores and exit.

Once you enter some scores, you can utilize the Score report. Click PRINT, plug in the date range and any other information, enter a gender/level/sport, and select "Score" from the list of report types below. Click PRINT.

Notice the report not only prints the scores for the team's games, but also totals a win-loss record from the score column.

If you designated league games using the checkbox on the Sporting Event screen, you can print the Score report to exclude non-league games using the League Filters on the Print screen.

Please note that this report is designed to print results for one team at a time. You MUST enter a gender, level and sport. If you do not enter all three, the win-loss record will not appear correctly.

Entering scores also greatly increases the functionality HighSchoolSports.Net for those of you with a subscription. All of the scores you enter will upload to the site. This will cut down on all those phone calls from parents, faculty, and especially the media looking for final scores. Just point them to www.highschoolsports.net.

NOTE: One drawback to the current scoring scheme is that is does not support any type of scoring beyond "us vs. them" scores. You cannot enter fractional tennis scores. You cannot enter multiple scores for one event, such as scores from each match in a volleyball game, or cross country scores for an event larger than a dual meet. We are well aware of these limitations and this problem will be addressed in a future version of Schedule Star.

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TOURNAMENT CONTRACT PRINTING

Schedule Star's Tourney feature permits you to schedule tournament-style events against multiple opponents. When adding a game to Schedule Star, checking the "Tourney" check box on the Sporting Event screen enables this feature.

Checking "Tourney" lets you enter the name of the event to the right. Next to this box is the PARTICIPANTS button. Clicking this takes you to a screen where you may add multiple opponents to this event (the regular "Opponents" pull-down menu is disabled on "Tourney" events).

Another button disabled by checking "Tourney" is EVENT CONTRACT. You CANNOT use this button to print a contract for a tournament. You MUST save the event by clicking OK and returning to the main calendar screen. Once there, you may then print the contract in one of two ways...

1. The CONTRACTS button

Click the CONTRACTS button on the main calendar screen. When the Contracts menu appears, click PRINT OPPONENT CONTRACTS. Select the date of the tournament. If you have other events that day, you should also select "Season by Sport" and select the gender, level, and sport of the tourney to ensure you're print ONLY the contract for the tournament.

After making these selections, click PRINT. Schedule Star will automatically generate the necessary contracts for EVERY participant in the tournament.

2. The OPPONENTS button

Click OPPONENTS to open the Opponents Directory. Highlight the name of one of the opponents you listed under "Participants" in the tournament, then click PRINT CONTRACTS.

Select the date of the tournament. If you have other events that day, you should also select "Season by Sport" and select the gender, level, and sport of the tourney to ensure you're print ONLY the contract for the tournament.

Clicking PRINT will generate a contract for the Tourney event FOR ONLY THE SELECTED OPPONENT. If you want to print contracts for all of the opponents in the Tourney, check the box next to "All Opponents." This overrides the one opponent you selected, making this no different than printing the contracts from the CONTRACTS button in the main calendar screen.

Which way works best for you depends on how you organize your contracts. If you mail contracts on an event basis, print them from the CONTRACTS button on the main calendar screen. If you mail contracts out for several games to a single opponent all at once, print your Tourney contracts from the OPPONENTS directory.

NOTE: Even for non-Tourney events, we do not recommend using the EVENT CONTRACT button to generate large numbers of contracts. This button is included on the Sporting Event screen for occasional "spot printing" only, such as a game added to your schedule late after the rest of your contracts have already been printed. Printing contracts by click on each event and click the EVENT CONTRACT button can be tedious and time-consuming.

Using the CONTRACTS button on the main calendar screen saves you considerable time and countless mouse clicks. Instead of going to each game to print the contract, you can generate entire seasons of contracts with a single click... just one more way that Schedule Star saves you time.