Confused on how to add new season/team page to the website with Season Management

[rpd_md]

I have created a new season in the Season Management section of SEHQ.  I have populated it with divisions (I used USAV age groups) and our team names.  We don't have rosters, the season will not start for several months, but I want to get a head start on this as I am a volunteer with a full time job and two kids.

Now - when I go to our "Teams" (club) page and click Edit - Admin - Seasons - Create a New Season, the page jumps over to the SEHQ Season Management.  There I see the new season that I created within SEHQ, but how do I translate that to the web page for the teams?  Do I just create a regular new blank page on the website (because trying to create a club or team page bounces me back to SEHQ also) and use the embedded microsites???  The "help" pages aren't helping, as they seem old (they say "updated over one week ago" - does this mean prior to Season Management?).  

Also - do the events/games added to the schedule in Season Management end up on the website calendar somehow?? (from the testing I have attempted it does not appear to do this).  

I am upset that SE has not clearly addressed how Season management translates over to the website!!!  Thanks for any assistance.

[fba]

same exact issue... 

[freezinKT]

There is a season microsite that does part of what you are talking about, but doesn’t seem to fully replace the old system’s team pages. Check out “Settings” under your season for information on how to embed the microsite.

A master calendar option to add all games and events to is a feature request I have seen several times. It’s our league’s number one request for sure.

[bmurn]

same issue here.. 

[Eric Bischof]

I'm using Season Management as well and from what I can tell, there's no easy way around it--you need to manually create a page for the season/division/team and then embed the particular URL of the microsite that you want and link to Team Center. I followed the instructions via this video: Season Sites Short (wistia.com)

This was very time consuming to set this up and I wish there was a better way. 

Also, whenever a new score is posted for a game, the microsite "publish" button needs to be clicked from the season's Setting page to republish the info on the site. This can only be done by an admin. I wish they would change this approach as well and just auto-publish. 

[freezinKT]

3 hours ago, Eric Bischof said:

I'm using Season Management as well and from what I can tell, there's no easy way around it--you need to manually create a page for the season/division/team and then embed the particular URL of the microsite that you want and link to Team Center. I followed the instructions via this video: Season Sites Short (wistia.com)

This was very time consuming to set this up and I wish there was a better way. 

Also, whenever a new score is posted for a game, the microsite "publish" button needs to be clicked from the season's Setting page to republish the info on the site. This can only be done by an admin. I wish they would change this approach as well and just auto-publish. 

Absolutely yes on needing auto-publish. 100%.

Also an automated way to include public teams on the site.

[freezinKT]

On 8/7/2023 at 5:25 PM, Eric Bischof said:

I'm using Season Management as well and from what I can tell, there's no easy way around it--you need to manually create a page for the season/division/team and then embed the particular URL of the microsite that you want and link to Team Center. I followed the instructions via this video: Season Sites Short (wistia.com)

This was very time consuming to set this up and I wish there was a better way. 

Also, whenever a new score is posted for a game, the microsite "publish" button needs to be clicked from the season's Setting page to republish the info on the site. This can only be done by an admin. I wish they would change this approach as well and just auto-publish. 

I just put about 1/4 of our teams on our site following this suggestion (thanks for adding it, Eric). It was pretty time intensive, and I'm not even half way. But it's going to have to be better than nothing.

[Michael Blair]

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. 

Edited August 12 by Michael Blair

[freezinKT]

10 hours ago, Michael Blair said:

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. 

Yes, this has to be fixed. We are one of those 30-40 team leagues. We come from League Athletics. Sports Engine HQ sold us on the old system but forced us onto the new.

[bmurn]

Related to the publishing of information to the website calendar I am using a work around now.  I have created a dummy sportsengine account and invited it to be on the staff of the teams that I want to publish on the calendar.  I then generate the ical link for that dummy account and add it to the website calendar.  There are still issues since you cannot tag different teams with different tags (unless you create multiple dummy accounts) and you still can't adjust the tags to be for the current season.  But, this at least got the information into the calendar so people can see practices and games without a sportsengine account.

[freezinKT]

7 hours ago, bmurn said:

Related to the publishing of information to the website calendar I am using a work around now.  I have created a dummy sportsengine account and invited it to be on the staff of the teams that I want to publish on the calendar.  I then generate the ical link for that dummy account and add it to the website calendar.  There are still issues since you cannot tag different teams with different tags (unless you create multiple dummy accounts) and you still can't adjust the tags to be for the current season.  But, this at least got the information into the calendar so people can see practices and games without a sportsengine account.

Oh, that's definitely a start of a workaround! In the general thread someone posted the different iCal links they were trying - wonder if you can just extrapolate them from the ID?

[freezinKT]

9 hours ago, bmurn said:

Related to the publishing of information to the website calendar I am using a work around now.  I have created a dummy sportsengine account and invited it to be on the staff of the teams that I want to publish on the calendar.  I then generate the ical link for that dummy account and add it to the website calendar.  There are still issues since you cannot tag different teams with different tags (unless you create multiple dummy accounts) and you still can't adjust the tags to be for the current season.  But, this at least got the information into the calendar so people can see practices and games without a sportsengine account.

OK, utilizing this tip above and also the below comment in the General forum about different iCal feeds, I finally got a working master calendar for a Season Management site.

I had already created individual pages for our teams on the public site by hand. I set each of them to have an events aggregator as an option so they would show up in the tags menu. Then in the iCal Feeds part of Website Tools I set up, painstakingly, one by one, the iCal fee for each team FROM HQ ITSELF. I used the first link option in the comment above as a base. For the team ID I found each by looking at the URL of each team's TeamCenter. That provided the ID. Each individual iCal Feed was tagged to the appropriate team page. Then I could add an individual events aggregator on each team's page containing a schedule that actually shows both practices AND games (as opposed to the Team Site that only shows games). Plus now our default calendar has every single team appropriately tagged with all their events, giving us a master calendar that everyone can see.

It was about an hour of work for between 30 and 40 teams, plus all the time to read everyone's tips and ideas here.

[calebg]

Just ran into the same problem. Spent hours trying to understand why the Club setup was missing and why I couldn't select my newest season for my club's teams pages. To be frank, this lowered the value of the product for me exponentially. Will most likely be transitioning to another platform.