The latest features of the Sportal365 content management platform include new football widget blocks, as well as a Polls block.

Football widgets preview

Release 3.13.0. introduces a functionality allowing you to preview Football widget blocks before adding them to Articles, Videos, or Galleries.

The preview offers a look at how the widget will display inside your post (and on your website), as well as gives a short summary of what the widget does. This helps you quickly decide whether it is the right widget to use or not.

 Previewing a widget before adding it to your post

 The preview of football widgets without adding them to your post happens from the block menu. To do so:

1. Select the + button used for adding blocks.

2. Then, select Football widgets.

3. Once the Football widgets menu expands, hover over a widget to preview it.

On the image below you can see the preview of the Player profile widget.

Team form widget

The Team form widget is a football widget that allows you to show in your post how a team performs after a specific number of matches.

The Team form widget analyzes a team’s performance during the last 15 matches, adds the points the team gains for each Win (3pts.) / Loss (0pts.) / Draw (1pts.), and then divides them by the total number of points (12pt.) to display how the team is doing i.e. Bad / Good / Very good / Excellent.

Adding the Team form widget to a post

To add a Team form widget to a post (Article, Video, or Gallery):

1. Select the + button to open the blocks menu.

2. Then, Football widgets-->Team form.

3. Once the widget configuration panel opens, enter a Team / Tournament / Season and set a Match limit.

4. When done, select Save Block.

Polls block

With this latest update of the Sportal365 CMS, you can add Polls inside your posts (articles, videos, and galleries) to gauge the opinion of your audience. Polls can be added as a new block directly from the body of your post.

Adding a Poll block to your post

To add a Poll block to your post, you need to create a poll first. See How to create a new poll.

After you have created a poll:

1. Select the + button to expand the blocks menu.

2. Then, select Content-->Polls.

3. When the configuration screen opens, enter the name of your created poll inside the Choose poll box.

4. When done, select Save block.

The below image is a preview of a Poll block:

The latest release of the Sportal365 system unveils new features, as well as several improvements to Tags, Categories, and Lists.

Improved Tags functionality

From now on, depending on the football connections you select in the Tags tab of your post, you will get more Upcoming/Past matches suggestion to choose from than before. Moreover, we have added a filter that can further help you segment your match search.

Load more Upcoming/Past match suggestions

We have greatly expanded the number of suggested matches users can pick from in the Upcoming/Past matches section. With a Load more button, you can browse past the seven-match limit used before.

Previously, when you tagged a post with a football connection (team / player / tournament), the system offered only 7 upcoming/past matches as suggestions to use for your post.

New match filter

Another improvement to the Tags section is the Matches filter. It lets journalists create detailed match searches in relation to the defined football connections.

You can filter matches for a certain team based on tournament, season, and date.

Better Category organization

Release 3.13.0. greatly simplifies the experience of creating categories and arranging them in any order you want. Now, once you create categories, you can reorder them to create hierarchical trees or leave them as standalone categories.

To do that, simply select a category from the Category dashboard and drag/drop it under another category. The more sub-categories you add, the longer the parent/child structure and vice versa.

Faster editing of Lists

The latest update of the CMS makes editing and adding content to Lists quicker.

Before when you wanted to add a post (Article, Video, or Gallery) to an already created list, you had to type in and search for available content.

At present, you can still search for a query, but you can also only select the type of post you want to search for–Article, Video, Gallery–, and the system will offer you the last 20 pieces of content. It could be The last 20 Videos, The last 20 Articles, or The last 20 Galleries.

Widget improvements

Along with the new widgets and features, three other football widgets come with improved functionality in release 3.13.0.

Standings widget

The latest update to the Standings widget focuses on the improvement of the legend display and the way a specific team is positioned so that teams above/below are visible as well.

• Control the display of legend use: displayLegend: true/false

• Add a team with the option: teamId + teamOffset

Top scorers widget

If you want to display top scorers, now you can also show minutes played, goals, yellow/red flags, penalties, first scored goals, and assists.

To control those fields use:

displayStatistics: [“goals”, “played”, “minutes”, “yellowCards”, “redCards”, “penalties”, “scoredFirst”, “assists”]

Match list widget

Use this option to control the number of previous and next matches starting from a specified date. If no start date is passed, the widget will take the current user date:

 “displayNumberOfMatches”: {

    “previous”: “10”,

    “next”: “10”,

    “startTime”: “2020-11-02”

    }