Feature Suggestions
This forum is where you can submit ideas you may have for future improvements to our software systems. All ideas submitted are received and read thoroughly and repeatedly. We do not provide individual responses or detailed status updates on feature suggestions, but all your ideas are valued and considered. Some ideas take just a few days, some will take years, and some may not happen, but they all start by submitting them here. Any ideas you have are welcome!
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Officials Directory Downlaod
Add the Official's ID and Certification field to the Members Directory link and download to excel file.
3 votesThe feature has been completed. A system update has been published with additional details. Thank you.
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TBA Request Email when not assigned a game
Send out email to officials who requested a game, but did not receive the game because it was assigned to another official.
1 voteA new option when completing TBA assigning will now allow you to choose whether or not you want to notify your unassigned TBA respondents that they didn’t get the game. Some schedulers prefer NOT to notify their respondents, but we do see the need to notify the respondents, if desired. Now the system will do that automatically when you completely fill a game. Thanks for the idea. Enjoy!
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Would like the rankings to be a factor in games where the officials have out it for a TBA.
Currently, when officials put out a game(s) for TBA, the system doesn't screen the responses based on their rankings, even though the system does it for the scheduler. I would like to see it extended to general member TBA's to help prevent an official from getting a game that is way over their heads, which has happened a couple of time within the last month.
14 votesThis feature has been completed. A system update has been posted with details. Thank you.
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Allow officials to be seen by coaches only on game day, not in advance
It would be nice if we could publish assignments to the officials, but not allow coaches to see them until the day of their game. This could avoid complaints received prior to the game.
6 votesThis feature has been completed and can be controlled for “Game Day Only” or a certain number of days in advance, depending on the administrator’s preference. A System Update has been published with further details.
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4 votes
We have increased the availability note capacity to 30 characters. A formal system update will be published on the system shortly.
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Un-Request TBA
Allow officials to un-request a game if they are no longer available on that date. TBA requests currently overide days they have blocked out. This causes un-neccesary assignments to officials that are not available when they once were.
3 votesThis feature has been completed. Please see the System Updates for further details.
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iCalendar integration
When a game is accepted, allow the game to automatically be downloaded to the officials online calendar like Google ot Yahoo.
0 votesWe have completed integration with Google Calendar. We are looking into options to integrate the Yahoo Calendar, however, their integration tools for their latest calendar version are barely existent. We will continue to explore Yahoo integration options, however, we may need to wait until Yahoo releases more integration options before we can utilize their calendar as well.
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Add home and away field to assigning window
Add a field to the assigning window to see how many times an official has officiated the home/away team
6 votesThis feature has been completed. A System Update was posted yesterday with additional details. Thank you for the idea.
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Audit Trail Report (by Official) for each decline and turnback.
It would be very helpful to keep the history by official for each decline and turnback so you can monitor behaviors of these officials and see at a glance who the problem one's are.
3 votesThis feature has been completed. Please see the System Updates for additional details.
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A Graphical Trendline/Timeline (line chart) of game Assignments by Official
Again this feature would be great to have a quick visual to see overall how the assignor has been distributing games to help "smooth" out the distribution instead of just having a "balanced" overall season end of total games for each official, yet may have had major peaks/valley's (30 games one month, 2 the next, etc). Again, both Excel output for printing as well as online so can be used by smart devices without excel.
8 votesThis feature has been completed. A system update has been posted with details.
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New Availability Graphical Matrix View
It would be fantastic for a graphical matrix view where it lists all officials down the rows and 31 small columns in a grid view that are color coded to show availability as Green (all day), Blue (partial), Red (none that day). It would help at a single glance see what officials are making themselves mostly available. The current excel export does not allow for a simple glance to see this and it would help an assignor understand who hasn't even bothered to make themselves available or those who are just being lazy putting every day available only to later…
6 votesThis feature has been completed. It is now available under the availability section. Please see the System Updates for additional information. Thank you for the feedback.
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When assigning games add column for games scheduled that month.
The tool counting total games is great, possibly adding a column for games in a current month?
15 votesThis feature has been completed. A System Update will be published shortly with details. Thank you for the idea.
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A way to use "team blocking" for officials without allowing THEM to use the blocking feature.
This is very important when needing to block officials from calling "siblings" or relatives games, but don't want them to be able to also be picky and block teams where they don't like coaches, players, etc.
0 votesThis feature has now been completed. You may now limit who can edit and/or use the blocking features. A system update will be published shortly with further details.
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Adjust the assignment analysis export tool
We would greatly appreciate it if you could adjust the assignment analysis (home and away) exports to work within the schedule filters. The major reason for this is that we really only need the assignment analysis for the regular season – not necessary at all for the exhibition and in the playoffs we don’t really worry about this report at that time either.
“Part 2” of this request (in a perfect world) would be to allow the admin to extract only referees instead of the complete list of officials that are exported. What I maen to explain here is that…
3 votesThe assignment analysis reports now all support the use of the schedule filters to filter out the report by various options. Hope that helps. Thank you for the idea!
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0 votes
This feature was just recently completed and is now available. Thank you for the idea.
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Add game codes and official positions to the payroll report
On the payroll report it is really plain and only shows the actual games that an official has completed but that is it. I need to know exactly what level each official has done and whether they were the referee and linesman.
9 votesThis feature has been completed. A system update has been posted with additional details. Thank you.
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7 votes
This feature was somewhat completed in a previous update. The documents section is now sorted alphabetically. Moving items up or down in the directory is simply a matter for changing the alphabetically representation of the document’s name. We will most likely not incorporate any further sorting to make it easier for users to find the items by searching alphabetically. Thank you for the suggestion.
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How about the ability to request multiple games and one time? Instead of one game at a time.
If I do not care where I am assigned on a available date. It would help if I could select any and all games on that day instead of each individually
1 voteSelecting multiple games at the same time from the TBA Requests board is not possible, unfortunately, because each TBA game does not necessarily have the same position available for responding to. However, today, we released an upgrade to the TBA system that will allow for faster requesting of games from the TBA Requests board.
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assignor would like to use subset of whole state refs as my default; let me specify one of my groups
I wait 2-3 minutes each time i work on a game for the entire state database to search availability of 200+ refs. Let me specify one of my groups as default, and load time will be much, much less
3 votesWe have added this feature. Thank you for the request. A formal announcement will follow in the System Updates section.
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how about a "CC" function to the e-mail/messaging?
as an umpire,it's alot easier to communicate with both assigners with one e-mail
1 voteThis feature already exists.
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