Teams and matches from Sportlink

What comes from Sportlink?

• Your teams, with the name your club uses in Sportlink (for example Sunday 1) and the name at the association.
• Fixtures: time, opponent, venue and pitch, and if Sportlink has them the meeting time and the dressing room.
• Results and tables of the league and the cup.
• Cancellations.

On match days Windkracht checks every few minutes whether anything has changed, on other days every hour. The teams themselves are updated every night. A new result is therefore on your website shortly after the match, without you doing anything. Changes are always made in Sportlink: that is where it comes from.

Only data that belongs to matches appears on your website. Names, email addresses and phone numbers of members or referees do not.

Completing a team

1. In the menu, go to Club → Teams.
2. Click a team (or the pencil).
3. Name on the website shows the name from Sportlink. If you want to call it something else, type a different name.
4. Optionally choose a group, for example Seniors or Juniors.
5. Drag a team photo onto the dotted box, or choose it with File manager. A landscape photo works best. See also Tips for good photos.
6. Under About the team: a short text, for example who the coaches are or that new players are welcome.
7. Under Training times: click Add training and choose the day, from, to and where.
8. If your website has Sponsors, choose a sponsor from your list under Team sponsor.
9. Click Save. The change is on your website within a few minutes.

The Sportlink tab shows what comes from Sportlink, such as the competitions of the team. You cannot change that here.

The list of teams

• Your teams are shown as tiles, per group. New teams from Sportlink get a group automatically (Seniors, Juniors or Youth); you can always change it.
• Order: drag a team to another place, or to another group. Then click Save order. With the keyboard: select a team with Tab and move it with Alt + arrows.
• On or off: the switch takes a team off your website. The matches of that team are then no longer on your website either. Switch it back on and everything is back.
• Groups: create, rename or sort the groups with the Groups button (or in the menu Club → Groups). If you delete a group, the teams remain, without a group.
• At the top you can see when data was last fetched from Sportlink. Fetch now fetches everything straight away, for example after a change in Sportlink. This can take a few minutes.

New season

New teams from Sportlink are added automatically. A team that is no longer in Sportlink gets the label No longer in Sportlink. You can then switch it off or delete it; Windkracht never deletes anything itself.

A multilingual website

The names of teams, opponents and competitions come from Sportlink and stay the same in every language. You translate the short text of a team and the names of the groups, just like other texts. See Translating your website.

Setting up the connection with Sportlink

You set up the connection yourself, with your club’s ClientID. You need to be an Administrator of the website.

1. Look up the ClientID in Sportlink Club: Verenigingsbeheer → Algemeen → Communicatie (Club management → General → Communication). You need the beheer (management) role for this. It is not the club code. Your club needs to subscribe to Club.Dataservice from Sportlink.
2. In Windkracht, go to Club → Sportlink in the menu.
3. Paste the ClientID into the box and click Save ClientID.
4. Click Test connection. You will see the name of your club and, for each part, how many rows come from Sportlink.
5. Fetching starts within a minute. After a few minutes your teams are under Club → Teams.

The ClientID is stored encrypted. After that nobody can read it any more, not you and not Windkracht; you only see the last four characters. New ClientID in Sportlink? Paste the new one and click Save ClientID. Delete stops fetching; what is already on your website stays there.

Your club is responsible for the ClientID itself. By entering it, you instruct Windkracht to fetch match data from Sportlink on behalf of your club for your website. Do not share the ClientID with anyone else: this code can also be used to request member data.

The log

Under Club → Sportlink you can also see what is happening:

• Status: for each part (teams and standings, fixtures, results) when it last succeeded, and a message if something goes wrong.
• Log: what was fetched and who did what, newest first. Including who entered, replaced or deleted the ClientID, who tested the connection and who clicked Fetch now. By default you only see changes, errors and actions by people; tick Include rounds without changes to see everything.
• Entries are kept for 30 days, automatic rounds without changes for 2 days.

An error with 401? Then the ClientID is (no longer) correct, or your club does not (or no longer) subscribe to Club.Dataservice. Check it in Sportlink Club and enter the ClientID again.

No Club in your menu?

Club is an extension that Windkracht switches on for your website. Contact Windkracht if you would like to use it. After that you set up the connection yourself, as described above.