Service and feature updates

We've added a new event duplicator to the system today. This will allow you to quickly make a copy of any event. Duplicated events will have the word ‘copy’ added to the end, and will initially be set to inactive.

We had received some requests to allow leagues to be assigned to sports (as you do already with events, clubs, etc.). We are pleased to say you can now do this, with the sport displayed in all league lists. You can retrospectively set the sports for all of your existing leagues (if you so wish).

We have added a new column to league tables showing the score-difference for each team. This is calculated from the for/against scores and does not include any bonus point allocations.

Whilst we were thrilled to welcome back event reminders in September, it did pose a new challenge for some of you. Not every event suited a reminder, so we have now added a setting so you can choose which events should have reminders sent (or which shouldn't).

You can now choose to receive transport requests from schools when they are booking onto team events. Simply enable the option when creating an event, and an extra section will appear on the event's booking form. Schools can let you know how many places they want and whether they need to be one-way or return trip.

Today we have made a couple of enhancements to the league creation process.

• We have included the school name beside the team name when planning fixtures (just in case the team name isn't always obvious).
• We now assume the venue for each fixture will be the home team's school. This should be the correct assumption in most situations and saves you from entering the same information over and over again.

We' are thrilled to report that as a result of our server migration in the summer, event reminders are now up and running again. We apologise for the time they were not sending and look forward to a long future of increased attendance!

Server migrations are never fun and they are rarely painless. This summer saw a major change for the Sport Connect system, changing both our hosting provider and the systems we use to manage your websites. We are pleased to say everything went to plan and all websites were online and ready for the start of the new academic year.