Team Sports Scheduling System
Build Date: 9/19/2005
Version: 4.0.3.1411

Thank you for installing the Team Sports Scheduling System v4.0! This document contains information regarding the capabilities and current state of the program when this version was shipped. Please read this document before using the Team Sports Scheduling System.

What Is It
System Requirements
Installation
Features
History of Changes
Known Issues
How To Submit a Bug
Uninstalling
Contacting Galactix Software
Feature Requests

What Is It?

The Team Sports Scheduling System (TSSS) is a powerful program that helps you quickly create schedules for your sports league. All you have to do is enter your league, team, and field information, select the available times to play, and TSSS will take care of the rest. TSSS can handle as many teams and fields you have, multi-division leagues, cross division games, and much more. You have an unlimited amount of freedom selecting available times for fields, leagues, teams and officials. Plus, you can generate round-robin, practice, official, and tournament schedules for all your sports leagues. The Team Sports Scheduling System is a complete league scheduling solution.

System Requirements

Minimum Configuration:

- Pentium class computer
- Windows 98, or Windows 95 with MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or above required.
- 8 MB of RAM
- 5 MB of free disk space
- Printer to generate reports

Recommended Configuration:

- Pentium III or above
- Windows 98,Me,2000,XP or above
- 128 MB of RAM
- 1024x768 screen resolution or higher

Installation

To install the Team Sports Scheduling System, download the self-extracting, self-installing file from our web site at http://www.galactix.com/ . Save the file to your download directory (or wherever you want), and double-click the tsssetup.exe file. Follow the directions on screen to install the software.

If you would like to receive e-mail updates when new versions or modules of the Team Sports Scheduling System become available, you can fill out the form on our web site at http://www.galactix.com/, or send a message to tsssupdates@galactix.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject. You don't need to join the e-mail list to find out if a new version is available - the Team Sports Scheduling System has a version checking feature built into it. To see if you have the latest version, select the 'Check Version' option on the Register menu or visit the update web page at http://www.galactix.com/products/tsss40/update.htm.

Features

There are many new features in this version of the Team Sports Scheduling System. Some of the most requested feature additions are listed below.

> New to TSSS 4.0

> - Import teams, contacts, fields, leagues, officials, and other data from your database in CSV (comma-delimited files) or XML format. Also, you can import and merge existing TSSS project files.
> - Team game start times are now balanced so one team doesn't get stuck with all late games.
> - Support for coaches with two teams - the teams won't be scheduled at the same time.
> - Officials won't be scheduled when their kid's teams are playing (so they can watch their kids play).
> - Game status icons are displayed in all game lists so you can quickly see if any games have any issues.
> - Team seeding is now supported for tournament bracket schedules.
> - Save the tournament bracket graphic as a GIF or JPG file.
> - The new Find Available Time tool can help you quickly find game times when rescheduling or adding a new game.
> - Simple networking support has been added (similar to MS Office) so you know if somebody else is modifying the project.
> - Concurrent licensing.

> Other Improved Features

> - New and improved scheduling algorithm. You can now choose the schedule the officials independently of scheduling the season games.
> - Standings support has been greatly improved and now calculates points (total points, for & against, and differential), overtime losses, forfeits, games behind, and rank. Also, a number of tie breaker methods can now be chosen.
> - Improved Game Set creation - you can now edit and label existing game sets, plus the pairing algorithm has been improved to always generate balanced home/away matchups.
> - Improved web site creation. You can now choose among different color styles as well as different web site formats.
> - Improved Contact management - now you can quickly see which teams a contact or sponsor is associated with.
> - Lots of UI enhancements including customizable column display & ordering, locking a set of games so they won't be rescheduled, swapping game times between two events, and bigger screens.
> - The Add Start Time dialog has been improved so you can add lots of start times without have to open and close the dialog. Also, you can specify the time increments and the hour range for times in the selection box.
> - Standardized the look of custom reports to reflect the current color scheme of the web site.
> - Added a new Calendar Report to the custom reports section.
> - Much, much more!

History of Changes

Please see the HISTORY.TXT file for a list of changes from version to version.

Known Issues

The following issues may affect some users of this program so please read on to see if they pertain to you. If you discover a bug or problem during the course of using this program, please let us know about it. See the How To Submit a Bug section below..

- The Upload Website feature uses the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard which is bundled with many different products from Microsoft, including some versions of Internet Explorer. If this product isn't installed on your computer, the Upload Website feature will not work. You may be able to download the Web Publishing Wizard from http://www.microsoft.com.
- Norton AntiVirus comes with a feature called 'Script Blocking' which disables Windows Scripts from running on your computer. If this feature is enable, TSSS will not be able to generate the project website, or run custom reports. To get these features to work, you will need to disable the Script Blocking feature in Norton AntiVirus. Refer to the 'Configure Norton AntiVirus' option in the Norton AntiVirus software for more information and instructions.

How To Submit a Bug

Have you found a bug? We would love to hear about it. The bug report form can be found at http://www.galacitx.com/bugreport.htm .

Uninstalling

To uninstall the Team Sports Scheduling System, open up the Control Panel, open Add/Remove Programs, select the entry for the Team Sports Scheduling System and click the Change/Remove button. Follow the prompts to uninstall the program. Make sure TSSS isn't running before trying to uninstall.

Contacting Galactix Software

If you have a question about the program, please refer to the help file or tutorial. Also, somebody else may have already asked your question. You can check out the Frequently Asked Questions page for this product at http://www.galactix.com/products/tsss40/faq.htm If neither of those resources answered your question, you can contact us using the following methods.

E-mail: support@galactix.com
WWW: http://www.galactix.com/support.htm
FAX: (208) 988-7494
Tel: (425) 605-0684

Feature Requests

Would you like to see a feature added to the Team Sports Scheduling System? If so, please let us hear about it! It is our goal to have the best sports scheduling software solution available on the planet. So, if you have anything you would like to see added, changed, or deleted from the program, send your input to feedback@galactix.com .