Adding Tournament games should be near top of my list.  Often games depend on round robin play results and it would be nice to add games from a smartphone at the rink.  Editing all game/practice schedules from a phone would be generally handy.

Manage Game Officials is critical by smart phone.  If I am out and I only have my phone and a coach texts or calls me looking for the timekeeper I want to be able to pull up the schedule on my phone and determine who should be on duty and I can deal with the situation immediately.

 

Thanks

Game officials portal.....the biggest thing for officials from our Association is that they want to be able to set up blocks for availability as well as confirm games from their phone if they log into the game officials portal without clicking confirm in the emails.  They would also like to be able to find subs from their cell phones.

I agree that away tournament games would be a BIG add-on to the mobile version of the control panel.  Other than that, priorities would be also for System Admin and Manage Site Content (Articles and Events).

An early preview of the new mobile Control Panel went live last night.  There is a link to the new version when you login to the current mobile Control Panel.  You can also get to it on a desktop browser by going to http://{your_domain_name}/Mobile/CP2/ - which is a temporary location since "CP2" will eventually just become "CP".

 

Since it doesn't make sense for us to maintain two versions of the mobile Control Panel, our focus with the initial launch of the new version is to make sure that it has all the features of the old one.  Luckily this is easy because the old one didn't do much - just posting scores for team games or tournament games.  Our plan is to encourage testing of the score posting as much as possible for the next week or so, and then discontinue the old version.

 

We'll also be adding a link requesting feedback on the new version which comes back to this community thread - hopefully people will let us know what they like and don't like on the new version.

 

The next thing being added is the ability for teams to manage their tournament game schedules (about 50% completed).  After that, we'll tackle the game officials module and the tournament module.  Then back to Manage Site Content for news items and events.  And of course, all those plans are subject to change :)

 

This morning we've made the new version of the mobile control panel the default.  The old version is still available for a limited time from a link on the home page on the new version.

 

We've had very limited feedback on the new version to date, although the feedback that we have received has been very positive.  The amount of feedback has doubled since this morning, since the new version was made the default.

 

 

Shaun,

Everything looks great so far, from what I can access.  I can't wait to see the game officials portion of the control panel.

Another update was made live last night, and work continues this week.  Two main things with the latest update:

So our focus right now is on some of the game officials pages, and even though we're just getting started we'd like to get some feedback on the main game assignments page because it's a pretty important one.  Some of the questions we have are:

The next thing planned to be worked on is the Game Details page.  There's some notes on the live version right now regarding what's planned for that page.  One thing we think would be useful is a contact "card" for officials when they are assigned to a game - again, assuming this is happening on a phone, the phone numbers for the contact would be clickable in order to initiate a call.

 

One last thing - we haven't announced it anywhere before now, but we've found a new javascript library which may have finally fixed the problem with double-taps on a tablet (or other touch screen).  This means that the entire regular version of the Control Panel *might* work properly on a tablet.  We haven't tested extensively which is why it's not been announced, but so far we've tested on an iPad mini and it looks like everything is working.  Double-tap to double-click, and swipe-left to delete.  I mention this here because many people following this thread are assignors and have asked for better features on a tablet - so please try it out and let us know.

Under Tournament Admin, I would suggest that "Manage Schedules; (un)assign teams to divisions, add / edit / delete games" be a priority addition to the Mobile Control Panel.

 

Keep up the great work.  Looks good so far.  You folks should have an emailing list to send information out when you do new and helpful stuff like this.  I happened to be on the site looking for something else and found this information about the mobile device access.  I would have liked to have been notified somehow when it went live.

First of all, I applaud the new control panel!  Time is of the essence and when I'm at the rink, or work or even out with my family, I always have a mobile device. Scheduling officials isn't a 9-5 job at a desktop. As I write this I am preparing to go out of town to skate myself. Gone are the days of lugging around a laptop.

 

Since having qualified officials at every game is paramount, that is where our focus on mobile control panel functionality must exist. We need to see who is skating where, open up the games, see who is qualified and available, contact officials, remove officials, add officials. Everything else is just nice to have. IMHO

All sounds great. It's August now, 2016, and as assignor I've been trying to access the control panel to manage game officials. Says 'site is under construction'. Any idea as to when this may be up and running? We've had some games scheduled for September and most of my officials are smart-phone only users. I'm hoping they will be able to see their calendar at a glance for upcoming games. Who they are working with, and the ability to open their availability /block out days. We've used horizon web ref for the past three seasons, and the mobile site was quite user friendly. My senior officials are nervous they'll have difficulty navigating /learning a new platform before season starts. It's great you have this feedback platform. Looking forward to the transition. ~Josh 

Josh

It would be great if we can schedule a practice if there is a cancellation. I have been at the arena without a computer and have had to have the coach text the entire team! 

Basically anything we can do add, delete and such would be an asset!

Thank you!

All of the above features you listed should be available via mobile panel.

I am no longer able to view assigned officials on iPhone. Was able to previously, but now it shows no officials assigned. This is very inconvenient. In addition, when will assigning officials through the mobile portal be available? The "under construction" banner has been up on the mobile portal for over a year.