Tournr Tips #7 – Embedding things

The description part of a competition can be more than plain text, it actually uses a type of text entry called ‘MarkDown’ (you can find out more about that by clicking on that link), which is becoming a standard in forums and messaging boards. It allows you to put bullets, headings etc, but without having to learn HTML.

One of the nice things about that is that you aren’t restricted to just text, you can embed other things, such as YouTube videos, Vimeo.

How?

This demo is with YouTube, but the same principle exists for pretty much all the media sites, if you have difficulty, please feel free to email me via the site and I’ll get you working!

First, let’s find the video we want to embed, for demo purposes I’ve gone with the Shoreline Triathlon (see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHwieXHhrY). What we need is the embed code. To get that, go to the video page, and click on the ‘Share’ link:

Next, choose the ‘Embed’ option:

Below this, you have some options you can play around with, I’d stick with the default settings, but feel free to play around with the video size.

When you’re all happy, select the code in the text box (it should begin <iframe), right click on it (or whatever the equivalent is in the Mac world) and select ‘Copy’:

Go to your Competition on Tournr, and Select Edit:

In the ‘description’ field, paste the code you just copied from YouTube.

Save your tournament:

And now you have your video in the competition!

Recap

Look for the ‘Share’ link on a page you want to show in Tournr, look for the Embed code and copy and paste it into the description field of your Competition.

By the way – this will also work for Groups, Terms and Conditions etc, which is pretty cool!

Tournr Tips #6 – Adding a Tournament to a Group

One of the biggest changes to Tournr since launch was the addition of Groups, I wrote about that a little while ago, but due to not wanting to write one massive post, I eschewed explaining every bit of it, and so I’m going to start to rectify that with the next few tips explaining how to do groupy / tournamenty stuff!

So you have your group and you want to add an existing tournament to it.

First go to your groups page, you can do this from the homepage:

or from the ‘My Groups’ page:

Scroll to the bottom of your groups page and expand the ‘Add a tournament to the group’ panel:

Then press the ‘Add my tournament’ button

You will then be presented with a form with 2 fields to fill in (you only need to fill in the Tournament ID / URL though:

In this case I’ve put in the whole URL (from the top of your web browser):

But I could just have easily put in just ‘97’.

Now, there are two different things that can happen, and that depends on whether you are an administrator of the group, or a member. As an administrator, the tournament is automatically approved, and will show up as a tournament on the group page:

As a member, your tournament will be added to a ‘pending’ queue that only the administrators can see (soon you will be able to see your own submissions too!).

Administrators can then look at the details of the competition:

Where they can approve/deny the request, or send a message to the submitter to get more details:

Which is then saved with the request, so all administrators can see what has been asked, (and the suggester as well)

So the suggester can reply and get their tournament approved:

We’re happy with this so we approve the tournament and the view changes:

We can go Back to the group and see our tournament there.

Tournr Tips #6 – Adding a Tournament to a Group

So you have your group and you want to add an existing tournament to it.

First go to your groups page, you can do this from the homepage:

or from the ‘My Groups’ page:

Scroll to the bottom of your groups page and expand the ‘Add a tournament to the group’ panel:

Then press the ‘Add my tournament’ button

You will then be presented with a form with 2 fields to fill in (you only need to fill in the Tournament ID / URL though:

In this case I’ve put in the whole URL (from the top of your web browser):

But I could just have easily put in just ‘97’.

As a member, your tournament will be added to a ‘pending’ queue that only the administrators can see (soon you will be able to see your own submissions too!).

Administrators can then look at the details of the competition:

Where they can approve/deny the request, or send a message to the submitter to get more details:

Which is then saved with the request, so all administrators can see what has been asked, (and the suggester as well)

So the suggester can reply and get their tournament approved:

We’re happy with this so we approve the tournament and the view changes:

We can go Back to the group and see our tournament there.

New Feature: Groups

It’s been a little while since I added anything to Tournr, but I’ve been busy working away to get this out, and it’s a big change, a lot has been added setting Tournr up nicely for going forward.

What is a group?

A group is just that, a collection of people it could be an official association (British Canoe Union) a club (Bude Canoe Club), a work group (Tournr Wave Skiers) just a group of friends (Chris’ Mates), anything that can have members!

A group allows you to put all your competitions in one place, so a group can keep track of the competitions it’s running / part of.

What’s in a group?

There are two types of members in a group:

Administrators
- Administer the group, they can add/remove members, tournaments, make new admins, invite people etc
Members
- The people who are in the group, they can suggest tournaments and get access to any of the groups tournaments.

Why bother?

It allows you to group all your tournaments together
It shows that a tournament that is approved by a group meets the standards of that group (i.e. competitors have to wear a helmet, first aid must be provided)
You can create private competitions for your group and all members are granted access to it without needing to invite them in

Future plans

All documents (rules and regulations, score sheets etc) can be uploaded and made available to all your members
Groups will be able to show rankings from their competitions, by aggregating the scores and dynamically showing them, so when you’re next competition is finished, the rankings are automatically updated

Get grouping!

So – go make your group made now: https://www.tournr.com/groups/