| Can the program schedule a league that is setup like this? |
For the majority of leagues, this program will not have any problems creating
your schedules provided your games only have two teams. The best way to know
for sure is to download the program and try it out.
|
| When I go to schedule, I keep getting a 'terrible' rating. What am
I missing? |
Chances are there aren't enough start times and fields specified for all the
games to be played on a day, and/or the season start and end dates don't allow
all the games to be played. If you have multiple times a game can be played on
a day, make sure you create a start time for each of those times. The start
times can be created for the league or for a specific team. If all your
teams will be playing at the same times, just set up the league's start times
and have all the teams use the league's start times. If a team has different
times it can play games, set up the team's start times instead.
|
| How do I schedule double headers? |
Make sure you have allowed double-headers to be scheduled by checking the 'Allow
double-headers' checkbox on the schedule Settings screen (the same screen you
specified the season start and end dates, and the game duration). Also, make
sure the 'max team games a day' setting is set to two or more (depending on how
many double-headers you want scheduled on a day). Finally, make sure you have
more than one start time specified on the days you want double-headers to be
played.
|
| Can you send me the product on CD? |
Yes. Be sure to select the CDROM version of the product when you order. The
program will then be sent to you on a CD-ROM disk with the unlock codes (the
unlock codes will also be emailed to you so you can immediately use the
program). Please note that no paper manual is shipped with the CD version. All
documentation on how to use the program is installed on your computer when you
install the program. Please see the help file.
|
| Does the product work for tennis or golf? |
You can use this program to schedule tennis and golf games as long as you can
treat each of the players as a team, and there are no more than two teams for a
game. This might take some creativity especially with doubles tennis and
golfing with four players. Native built in support for these types of schedules
is not supported at this time.
|
| How can I export the tournament brackets to the web? |
There currently is no built-in way to save the tournament brackets image to
a webpage. Until support for this is added, you can do a 'Print Screen' to copy
the brackets image (and everything else visible on the screen) to the
clipboard, then paste it in to your favorite image editing software. From there
you can resize and crop the brackets as necessary, then save to JPG or GIF
format.
|
| What are the annual costs associated with the program? |
There are no annual costs associated with the program. Minor updates (bug fixes
and some features) are free for download. Major version releases will most
likely cost money (upgrades from a previous version will be heavily
discounted).
|
| How can I customize the website? |
To customize the website, you need to be familiar with HTML. The files that you
will want to customize are located in the "Program Files\TSSS 3.0\Templates\"
folder. It is not recommended that you modify the files in the Default folder,
but instead make a copy of the Default folder and give it a new name. Modify
the files in that folder as you see fit. To have TSSS use your new template
files, click 'Tools->Options' from the menu, and select the Web tab. In the
Styles combo box, select the new folder you created. Click OK for your changes
to be saved. Next time you generate the website, your new modified templates
will be used.
|
| How come the Upload Website feature doesn't work? |
The Upload Website feature relies on the free
Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard which is installed by some Microsoft
products. If this product is not installed, the Upload Website feature won't
work. The last time I looked, you could download the
Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard from Microsoft's website here.
|
| I get errors when I try to run a report or generate the website.
What can I do? |
The website generation and the custom report features use Microsoft's Windows
Scripting Host (WSH) to generate the output. We are using some features
specific to WSH version 5.6. Therefore, if you don't have WSH version 5.6
installed, some of the reports and webpages won't work. To see which version of
WSH you have, bring up the Command Prompt and type in 'cscript' and hit Enter.
On the first line of output will be the version of Windows Script Host. If you
don't have version 5.6 installed, you can download it from
Microsoft's Windows Script Download web page. Be sure to download the
appropriate version of Microsoft Windows Script depending on which version of Microsoft Windows
you are running.
|
| How can I get the website and report generation to work with
Norton AntiVirus? |
Norton AntiVirus comes with a feature called 'Script Blocking' which disables
Windows Scripts from running on your computer. If this feature is enable, TSSS
will not be able to generate the project website, or run custom reports. To get
these features to work, you will need to disable the Script Blocking feature in
Norton AntiVirus. Refer to the 'Configure Norton AntiVirus' option in the
Norton AntiVirus software for more information and instructions.
|
