Tournament module pro v 1.1.2 a quick reference guide Posted:
Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:52 pm |
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I wrote this earlier, it's in raw form and I'm sure needs a ton of editing. I wrote it between service runs as quickly as humanly possible for those who may be interested.
*DO NOT USE MPG'S TOURNAMENT MODULE PRO V.1, IT SUX AND HAS CONFLICTS WITH OTHER MODULES*
I hope this Helps:
This is a short tutorial on how to use this program:
This is a short tutorial on how to use this program:
1st, install the program and db and read the "Read Me" file for that information and activate the block or link which ever way you decide to do it. (Link is for those who have Sommiare installed in their CMS.
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This is the Admin side:
Once installed, Log into your admin account and enter the admin control panel.
Locate the Tournaments Icon in the Modules Administration panel, it's the bottom section, and click to open it.
When open, you will have two selection tabs, "Create Tournament" and Delete Tournament" along with a drop down menu that is empty. Click on "CREATE TOURNAMENT"
When the page opens you will have a "Name" field, place the name of your Tournament in that area. To the right of that field, is the size of your Tournament. They are 4,8,16,32 and 64. Be sure to select the appropriate size you need. If the size is to large your bracket will be offset and the Tournament will not work out for you correctly.
Since you have just started this Tournament, the Status tab to the right of your Tournament size button, will be "Open." There are multiple choices there as you procede through the Tournament. The other choices are "Invite, In progress, and Closed" Use them accordingly.
Another tab is visible here, its the "Manage Tournaments Tab" use this when you want to edit other Tournaments in this area. Mostly it's used to change the Status of a Tournament, i.e. closed or In progress etc.
But for Now, Click on the "Create" button and create your Tournament.
The page will refresh and you will see your Tournaments Name and "Tournament Created" next to it. This means you did everything correctly thus far.
Below your Tournaments name is again the "Manage Tournaments" tab, click on it now. This returns you to your 1st page and you will notice your Tournaments name to the left of the "Manage Tournaments" tab, meaning it can now be worked on, or, Managed. Click on the Manage Tournament Button.
The opening page will give you a whole bunch of options, News, Rules, Prizes, Teams, Bracket, Matches, and Settings. Below those tabs will be your Tournament and below that will be your "Update" button with the Tournament name.
The top tabs, click on each tab and place your desired info in each field:
- News: well, news for your tournament.
- Rules, place the rules.
- Prizes, what they win.
-Teams... This needs discussion:
This is a little funny, I don't know what the creator of this module was thinking when he set this section up. You will see an area below where it says "Sniper - Teams/Players" where it will read, "Name, User, IP, User IP, and Contact, this will initially be empty. Below that will be registered members on your website that you can add to the Tournament, Select a handful now and provide some general information. This is for test purposes now.
When you add people here, it populates the bracket as you add them and in the order you add them. So be conscious as not to add experts in your game against noobs, this isn't fair, give them a chance to advance at least once.
They also will be able to "Report Matches"
- Once you add a name or team name, below that field you will need to add the name again of the person or the name of the team.
- Add a website if you want (Not Necessary)
- Add their e-mail, (Not Necessary)
- Add their X-fire, (Not Necessary)
and then click "Add Team"
When you Click the Add Team button, the screen will refresh and you will see a verification "Members name, "Added to" Tournament Name" Click on the Teams Button again and keep adding members or teams.
When you go the the Team Page, again, this time you will see more information. The person you added will be there as will a bunch of information. You will notice the "Teams / Players section will be populated. The person you added will have their name in the "Name section, and so on across the section. Added to this will be an "Update button, for obvious reasons. A "Players Field" for the "Teams" use and a Remove Button to remove the added person or team.
* Note, there is an E-Mail all button at the bottom of this section, I've never used it, I assume it works, I don't know.
** In the Teams field, to speed things up, all you really need is a players name, the rest is not necessary
*** Continue adding more members, at least 6.
- The Bracket Tab is next
Click to open the Bracket, once open you will see the layout and all the names you added in the brackets and in the sequence you added them. You can move names around here and add or delete them as well. When done with your editing here, make sure you click the "Update Bracket" button at the center top of the page. Also the name of the Tournament will be at the center top of the page. When you click to update, the page will refresh and give you an option to close page, close it.
Before you go on to the next tab, "Matches" the Tournament of course needs to start being played and matches needs to have progressed. Those you have selected to be able to report matches will place that info in and it will go here. Remember Tournament need to be "In Progress" before anything can be Reported. The Manage Tournament is preset to "Open" so every time you open that page and close it, it will change the status to open, just be mindful of this. Also, watch out for the IE browser it will reset information if you're not paying attention.
* If you are going to manually update the match, do not let anyone "Report" a match, it will give you an error. Also, manually updating will not populate this area. (Designers Fault, not mine)
** Using the "Report Method" it will give you generic information about the win-loss and points obtained.
The Settings tab is the Last tab we are looking at here in this "Admin Area." It doesn't give you a lot of options, but it does give you a few. If you update anything here, just make sure you click to "Update Settings" before leaving the page.
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This is the user side:
Once the block is located to join the Tournament a user needs to click on the Tournament name or "View all Tournaments" located within the block.
Once they click on it, the Tournament name will be observable and the Tournament status will be viewable as well. Individuals can only join a Tournamnet that is "Open" To join, they need to click on the Tournament name, the page will refresh and they will have the options to view the following tabs, "Main, News, Rules, Prizes, Teams, Bracket, Signup, Matches, and Report.
- Main, takes them back to the main page to view All Tournaments.
- News, to read news and updates
- Rules, to read rules
- Prizes, prize info
- Teams, team or individuals who have signed up thus far
- Bracket, here they can see where they'll be on the Bracket
- Signup, to sign up
- Matches, No info will here at this time
- Report, No info will be here at this time
They decide to join and click the "Sign up" button, they fill out the information asked for and the click the "sign up for.. "Tournament Name" button at the bottom. When the page refreshes it will either state the player has successfully signed up for the Tournament or an error. Depending on the error, they may need to contact the site administrator to be permitted into the match.
I think this about covers it, I'm sure I left a few things out, but with what is here, you get a good idea about what is going on.
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