Michael Blair

Rob - Thanks for these table tricks. Hoping you can help me out with another trick. I'm trying to editing the background color and fonts in the table builder page element. The SE Help pages cover creating or uploading the content, but nothing on editing colors, fonts, etc. Basically, I want the table to align with our web design such that background color in the table cells is black, not white. Below is a link to the page with the table I'm trying to edit. https://www.kcfirevolleyball.com/page/show/8291482--center-kc-fire-12-1-select-team Thanks.

Bottom line - no. SE intentionally broke the prior integration between SE HQ and the website. I've posted a couple other rants in this forum about what no longer works and the SE Help Desk responses of "You can do it manually!"

This is just another feature that SE intentionally broke with the introduction of Season Management. I already ranted in another topic in this forumon othe features that SE application developers decided were no longer important, so I won't repeat that here (link provided below). Bottom line is SE has disabled many of the features that us admins used to use that allowed for integration between SE HQ and the website, automatically creating teams and groups, sending club-wide communications, scheduling, etc. Obviously, there was zero user experience requirements gathering and testing prior to the release of Season Management (which, ironically, is still labeled "BETA" by SE, suggesting they know all too well that they broke critical functionality used by admins).

I've gone around and around with the Sports Engine help desk on this issue. Bottom line is that they intentionally broke the integration between SE HQ and the Website with the introduction of Season Management. There is NO WAY to automate the integration of teams in SE HQ with the website anymore. It gets worse. If you used the website calendar function previously to schedule events for your club/program and teams, you will need to start using Season Management or the SE App AND work them ONE SINGLE team at a time. No more scheduling a club-wide event by tagging each of the teams. Now we have to create these individually for each team. My club has 10 teams. The larger clubs in our region have 30, 40, or 50+ teams. Guess they will be hiring someone to manage the team pages and event calendars. Additionally, Season Management broke the Smart Groups that used to be generated using the Sports Management Rostering function. The help desk excitedly told me (quote) "Instead, you can create those groups manually!" Way to go SportsEngine. You took away the features that were the most critical to those of us who volunteer to create team sites and communicate with our members.

Thanks Rob! I use CSS to control our sites background color. It did not occur to me to use it to control the default text color as well. This will make things much quicker when creating new text or editing existing. I already tested it, works like a charm.

My understanding is Jeff, like me, would like to change the default text color for text block elements. I use our secondary color for text fonts and have to change with each text element. I'm using some html in some areas of the website, but no CSS.

I have to do the same - change the font to #DDDDD (which is our secondary color) for any text that I'm adding to page elements. The secondary color *should* show in your menus, drop downs., etc. I'd submit a help ticket to SE and cross your fingers. Maybe they can point to a hidden setting somewhere that will change the default text box color. If so, let me know!

Go to Website Settings > Theme Settings > Brand Color. The primary color is the header font, the secondary color is the text font. Unfortunately, SE is not "smart enough" to remember the secondary color when entering text in most page elements. I find it maddening and have made multiple enhancement requests to the dev team. My work around is to remember to change the text font myself to match the secondary theme color.

Jeff - these forums seem pretty dead when it comes to replies. In the unlikely event you have not figured it out yet, you can change your default color scheme via the Theme Settings under Website Settings.