Creating a playing season and defining session times

The system requires Playing Seasons to be set up to define the dates available and the session times that can be booked in the diary.

Playing seasons also define the session times and the dates within which leagues and competitions must be played.

The system does not allow any bookings outside of the session times defined in the playing seasons.

The system does not allow a league or competition to start or end outside of a single playing season's dates.

On the menu choose Manager -> Playing seasons:

The playing season list page appears:

This page contains a table displaying:

• Season title
• Season start date
• Season end date
• Website (controls whether the playing season is visible to members on the club's website)
• Categories button (see Managing categories)
• Edit/View button (see below)

Click the green Add new button on the bottom right to reach the page for adding a new season:

For clubs which have the same session times on all days of the week

The first view on this page is for clubs which have the same session times on all days of the week. (See further below for the option to have different session times each day)

Use the Season start and Season end fields to define the first and last playing days of the season.

Use the Black listed dates field to select dates which no bookings should be allowed. You can select multiple dates.

Use the Season title field to set the public playing season name e.g. Winter 2017/2018

Now, you are ready to set the session start and end times, click Session 1's start then select a time:

Simply repeat this for as many sessions as you require. 3 is the minimum.

When finished, click the green Save button on the bottom right to return to the Playing seasons list page.

For clubs which have the different session times on all days of the week

Click the Use sessions by date checkbox on the top left under the page heading to switch to a different mode:

A different view appears:

Here, all of the same features explained in the above section are repeated, except, there are many more fields for selection session start and end times for each day of the week.

Complete the form, setting start and end times for all required sessions.

The Copy Monday button exists to help if you generally run the same session times but only have a few exceptions throughout the week.

Clicking this will copy Monday's session times to the row of the button: