We're releasing a new athlete editor to help with athlete management.
To try the editor, go to your Edit Athletes page (Track & Field only at this point), and click "Try out the new Athlete Editor" at the top of the page.
Let us know what you think!
We'll be making this editor live soon, so get your suggestions and requests in soon, if you have any.
When adding information in fields and using the "Next" button to access the next name on the roster, the system locks up after 5-6 entries. When I reboot it manually, the two or three most recent edits are not saved. From this screen, I started refreshing the screen after every entry to confirm the information was stored by calculation and display of the athletes' age. I had to reselect the next athlete from the roster instead of using the more convenient "next" button, but all of my work was saved. I also added new fields on my own which works out well. We track at least 3 telephone numbers for our athletes - personal cell phone, home phone, and parent(s) work phone numbers. I'd also like to enter the birthday just once and the other field updated automatically. Overall, nice work.
Mac McIntosh - Marshfield Pirates Coos Bay Oregon - home of the Prefontaine Rotary Invitational
What browser (and version) and operating system are you using? I'm trying to track down the source of your problems.
Also, the duplicate Birthday fields will be merged in the final release, so don't feel like you need to enter it in both fields. We are moving the location of the Birthday, hence the two fields (one old, and one new).
We are intending to optionally make the custom fields unique by sport and/or season. Thoughts on this, anyone? It would allow you to store different info for each season (if desired). You could have a combination of global fields that would be used for every season and sport, and fields that would be unique to that season and sport.
Also a tip: try using the up and down arrows to navigate between athletes. It will be faster than using the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons. But the behavior should the same (if it locks up with one, probably will lock with the other, as well).
I use Firefox 3.5.5. I'd like to add "mugshot" photos to the athlete profiles which I'm storing in a new Picasa web album. When I double-click the "Add a profile pic" I'm sent to a page with shared Picassa web albums but no way to access the individual photos. Other screens on your site that allow insertion of photos require the URL, but I saw no place to enter this information either.
We use our athlete roster to prepare an emergency notification list in case of injury. In many cases, our athletes have two sets of parents and we're required to notify both. Depending on the time of injury, we may need to call the listed "home phone", "work phone" or "cell phone" of each parent. We intend to add these fields to our database.
Thank you for working to improve what is already an excellent product.
mac
Hi Mac,
Rather than type out what would seem like a complicated set of instructions, I've prepared this short video demonstration for you. Please try this, and let me know if it works for you.
Truly coming to love Jing -- second best thing to come of my athletic.net exposure (the site itself being number one). I now get a kick out of your wild mouse movements David -- and actually get your meaning when you do it.
So back to a question I asked somewhere -- I don't want to install picassa ... so when will we be able to use other photos? Using facebook photos will be very helpful and that is the source most of our "peeps" use for their photos at this point.
Jing is pretty sweet.
As far as Picasa...you don't actually need to install Picasa on your computer. Picasaweb and Picasa are somewhat separate, but integrate if you want to use both. To post pictures on the site, you just need a Picasaweb (picasaweb.google.com) account.
We'd be somewhat interested in integrating Facebook pictures, but I don't think they share their photos as easily and freely as Picasa and Flickr do... Am I wrong?
Don Passenger: Truly coming to love Jing -- second best thing to come of my athletic.net exposure (the site itself being number one). I now get a kick out of your wild mouse movements David -- and actually get your meaning when you do it.
They call me the Jing Mime.
You should see me Jing into the wind...
Joshua Bowdoin:We'd be somewhat interested in integrating Facebook pictures, but I don't think they share their photos as easily and freely as Picasa and Flickr do... Am I wrong?
I guess define share? There is a link to every photo on facebook ... for example ... here is a kid not finishing at the Michigan state meet. The kid in white finishes in 27th place if I remember correctly. The top 30 are all state ... what is the rest of this story? Pretty cool photo (except for the poor kid on the ground).
I was not finding anything on picassa web to be honest. Everything I did was trying to force me to download the Picassa photo editor. I already have Jing Project ... and my machine is complaining under the weight of all the email I won't delete :-) Just don't need one more program unless it is killer.
Hey Don,
Try this link to sign up for a Picasa account?
Okay, that isn't a little bit confusing ... oh wait it is. I have an account already ... so I sign on, and it brings you right back to "download Picassa" then I realize that above that essentially where you won't notice it is the picassa web bit ... so I upload.
I try to link it and I get a bunch of non-descript buttons I click on one at at time ... not a pretty or understandable interface. Something must have worked however as I get to tagging photos eventually and I have one working now:
http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=1206798
By the way I don't really find this intuitive at all:
Is NHCS something left behind? How do I get off of this page and back to my athlete editor? Needs a little work perhaps? I realize we are out on the cutting edge.
You know, I see NHCS every time I go to that page, but I never realized that EVERYONE saw it.
I'll ask Josh to take a look at that. The interface isn't so bad once you use it a couple of times.
Well I cannot swear everyone sees it, but I sure did ;-P
I get the interface more or less, but there is no obvious way to end the photo session and get back to my athlete that I was editing in the first place.
Really I want this for cross right now ... but it only is working for track ... so I'll stop until it's time to play with track.
For photos I use snapfish, facebook and well that's it. Picassa would be only for this purpose and it appears that I have fairly limited storage there. Hopefully a way to link to FB pictures will be forthcoming.
Oh, Sorry, I meant to mention about getting back to your athlete... Do the photo tagging pages open in a separate browser tab for you? They do for me, and then I just close the tab when I'm done, and I'm back to where I left off.
I think as soon as the Athlete Editor comes out of Beta you'll see it for XC.
Picasa gives you 1GB free storage. If that's not enough, you can always get another free account. =)