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Results Management on Event Sites

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Jan 1st 2013, 9:20pm
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Getting results posted to your event page can be done in a variety of ways. In this tutorial we will explore those methods and how to go about them. As part of our standard coverage of high school and college each week, we post and parse into our database many of the top events from around the country. So odds are good that a portion of your meets are already being put into the system by our team. For those events that may be just off our radar or for those dual meets, you can easily get the results on your site and even into our database.

We will break this article into 2 sections.
1. Posting Full Results
2. Getting Results into our Database

*Note: This tutorial is for adding results to RunnerSpace. To add results to DyeStat TFX, submit them using this form.

1. Posting Full Results

- Starting from your event home page, go to your Info/Results page.
- Be sure that from the History block you are viewing in the correct year you are adding results for. If the year is not displayed, you will need to add the new year by clicking on the Add Year button on the top of the right side column.



Once you are on the correct year, click on the Add Results button that will bring up the form to add results.



- The Upload Date defaults to today's date.
- The Creation Date defaults to the date of the event. If you are posting results for previous years, just be sure to set the correct Creation Date as that is how the systme knows what year the results are for.
- Use the Attach a File button to attach a PDF or other type of results document. We strongly suggest copying and pasting the results into the editor box. Our search function (and Google/Bing) do not pick up on any content inside of attached files so it will help others find the results if the text is in the article.
- The next set of dropdowns should auto select to match the event. If they haven't, choose the Sport and Level that is most accurate. The Category should be set to Full Results if that is in fact the case. Choosing Full Results lets our system know to treat the article as results instead of a standard article.
- Use the Attachment Options to attach the article to any team or event that you like. If you've been following these steps, you'll notice there is already 1 attachment, your event site. If the results are to get parsed (we'll get to that soon), the article will automatically attach to all the other schools that participated in the event. See the tutuorial on Linking To and Posting As for a more detailed look at these two options and what they do.

- The title of the article is preset for you and for the sake of uniformity you can leave that as is. That is how we title every results article on the site.
- The Link line is for linking to the url of the original results if applicable.
- In the editor box, paste in the results. That may sound easy enough but depending on the format you are working with it can become quite difficult to do it correctly. Here are some tips and tricks to help you in this step.

Flat HTML / Preformatted Results
This format is the most commonly used and is generally pretty easy to work with. It looks like this:

Event 1  Women 5k Run CC
==========================================================================
    Name                    Year Team                    Finals  H# Points
==========================================================================
Results - Women                                                           
  1 Jassmine Macon               Glendale              20:11.19   1   1   
  2 Madison Bird                 Santa Monica          20:20.99   1   2   
  3 Concepcion Flores            Glendale              20:28.16   1   3   

The best way to make sure the spacing and formatting is maintained is to use and  tags in the HTML of the editor. Don't worry, that's actually pretty easy to do. On the second line of the editor tool bar, locate the HTML button and click it.


That will bring up the code view of your article. Inside that textarea, type at the beginning, paste in your Flat HTML or Preformatted results, and then at the end type . That tells the editor to maintain all the spacing that is already there. If you don't do this, all the spaces will be smushed together and it won't look right. Here's an example of what the example results above look like in HTML code view.


Once you've got all that set, click Add Article.
In the last step, add a thumbnail image. As a general rule, we use the meet's logo as the image.

 



2. Getting Results into our Database

Once you've posted the results into a results article as outlined in step 1 of this tutorial, getting them into our database is pretty easy on your part. All you need to do is email [email protected] with the following information:
- Link to the results article you've posted
- Link to the event page on RunnerSpace - The event_id # will also work.

After we receive that email, the results should be posted within 48 hours and we will email you when that is completed.
There are some limitations to the types of results we can input into our system. PDF's are typically very hard to work with.

Track and Field:
- Hy-Tek Flat HTML Results
Cross Country:
- Hy-Tek Flat HTML Results
- Spreadsheet (excel or other program)
- Table (usually located on another webpage)

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3 comment(s)
buzooti
Hello Team,

Videos for the USATF Master Outdoor Track and Field Championships in NC this weekend have some errors in the videos posted. The first I noticed is the Men's 45-49 200M Final. The posted video is the Men's 35-39 200M final. The second is the Men's 50-54 200M Final, it is actually the Men's 30-35 200M Final. Please let me know whom I should contact to make these corrections.

Thank you.
ross
Thanks for the heads up. Go ahead and send an email to [email protected] for these types of things when they come up and we will get them updated. I will work on fixing these.
Chris Nickinson
The correct videos are now up.
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