Tournament Management

We’ve now completed the two of the first steps for creating and managing a tournament. As you saw from our preview a few weeks ago the main page is setup to have a grid listing out your tournaments, a section below that that lists out your tournament administrators and a nice call to action button on the right side that will take you into the tournament creation wizard. See the screen shot below for a view of the new layout for the main page.

Tournament List Grid

The grid that you see is now a nice paging and sorting grid. You can sort through your tournaments on the first three columns. At the bottom of the page you can see that there is now paging added. As you go over ten tournaments the grid will now start to add pages to shift through rather than one big long list.

Tournament Administrator List

The administrator list found under the grid will show the name, the last they that person was one and few action links. As you add administrators to your tournaments you will see a default of three people here and a scroll bar to roll through the rest.

Create / Edit Tournament Screen

Our general information tab for tournaments has grown some since we’ve last talked about it. As you can see from the screen shot below we’ve added quite a few items and features to the page.

General Tournament Information

Right now in the upper section of the page you can see that we have all of the necessary items to create a tournament along with start and end dates, sponsor information, fees and a description. Validation has been added to this page to insure that you have enter the very basic information for a tournament. The required fields are: tournament name, course and tee.

Tournament Rounds

Creating a tournament is more than just having the time and place. With GolfStakes.com you also have the ability to add rounds to your tournament when you creating the tournament. After filling in the required fields above, you only need to give the round a name, the date it will be played in your tournament, if you would like GolfStakes.com to give you summary screens in between holes and which holes you will be playing. Click “Add Round to Tournament” and the grid below will reload and show you new tournament. Clicking on course name will take you to the actual round page, and clicking remove will take this round out of the tournament.

All message of success, information and errors will show up where the red box is with an appropriate color scheme.

Summary

That’s it for now. We hope you like what you see here and are looking forward to creating your next tournament with GolfStakes.com. As always any comments or feedback is greatly welcomed.

Feedback Driven Upgrades

A few months ago we unveiled our new tournament management interface and we also used it in a large tournament as a real test of where we were going. Well we found that we were a little off on some things.

We found that the interface was a little hard to use for more than just a few players (the tournament had 150+ players in it) and adding in players one a time turned out to be a test of patience. Setting up the tournament groups and flights took too long and had many involved steps to complete the action. And we had no way of sharing the tournament with other tournament administrators.

Our Changes

So we’ve gone back to the drawing board and we’re making some changes to the interface. First we’re going to the make the tournament home page a little bit more informative.

Here’s what is going to happen. The home page of the tournament management screen is now going to have a grid with your current tournaments displayed. This will link to a tabbed interface where you can go through and change whatever values need to be adjusted.

Second, you’re going to see a really large button that will take you in a new tournament setup wizard. Creating a tournament just didn’t stand out and now we’re going to highlight this feature.

On the bottom half of this screen you can see your tournament administrators. From here you can communicate with these people, view their profiles and whatnot. To the side you’ll see a link where you can add a new administrator. Clicking this link will take you to a screen much like this one:

Type in an email or a username, find the person whom you’d like to have as administrator of your tournaments and click the action of “Add as Admin”. You’ll now be redirected back to the tournament management home page and your new administrator will be displayed on the page.

Basic Info

Okay, we’ve go the home page redesigned and now we’re going to take a look at the new tabbed interface and how we’re going to build up a tournament.

Here’s the basic setup page. Also known as the first step of the tournament setup wizard. As you can see their are tabs staggered across the top of the wizard. When you’re first creating a tournament these we only activate after creating the general information of a tournament. When you’re editing a tournament each tab will be active and you will be able to dive in and adjust any information necessary.

The general information section is just that. You’re going to set the who, what, when, where parts of tournament. Once you choose the where (your course) you will also have the opportunity to create predefined rounds for this tournament.

Wrap Up

That’s all we’ve got now. Everything is up in the air over how we’re creating this functionality but we’re really working to make it easier on you, the user of GolfStakes.com. Come back again and we should have more information on the remaining tabs of this great new feature of GolfStakes.com.