Hello everyone,
The highlight of release 3.14.0 of the Sportal365 CMS is the rollout of three new football widgets that put on your fingertips–and into your posts–detailed statistics about player careers, squads, and most decorated players.
We are also happy to announce the integration with the Onnetwork.tv video platform, which will increase your access to video content that you can embed in your posts.
What’s new?
Squad statistics widget
Player career widget
Most decorated players widget
Onnetwork.tv integration
Here are more details about the latest features and integrations:
The Squad statistics widget lets you show various team statistics during a specific season. Moreover, the widget allows you to show–and break into details– the information about each player position on the team. This is a great tool if you want to create more context about teams in your posts.
Adding the Squad statistics widget to a post:
To add the Squad statistics widget to a post (Article, Video, or Gallery):
Select the + button to open the blocks menu.
Then, Football widgets--> Squad statistics.
Once the widget configuration panel opens, select a Team and Season in the designated boxes.
Note that if you don’t select a team and season you won’t be able to continue.
4. Select what position you want to display. You can choose between one or several player positions.
5. In the Statistical columns: boxes, select what additional information you want to show for each position.
When done, select Save Block.
The Player career football widget collects information from regional, national, and international tournaments to create detailed profiles of a player’s career.
The widget breaks down player information in tournaments, seasons, teams, and can segments player stats into Minutes, Matches played, Yellow/red cards, Assists, Team, Championship, and so on.
The Player career widget is an excellent tool that lets you create player profile pages.
Adding the Player career widget to a post
To add a Player career widget to a post (Article, Video, or Gallery):
Select the + button to open the blocks menu.
Then, Football widgets-->Player career.
Once the widget configuration panel opens, enter a player in the Player box.
When you do that, you will notice other boxes appear below.
4. Use the Championship filter box to select a championship.
5. Select the stats you want to show in the Statistics columns box.
7. Next, go to Table columns and select from the options.
Note that except for the Player box, you can select one or several options in all other boxes.
8. When done, select Save Block.
The Most decorated players football widget lets you display information about the most decorated players from a selected tournament and season.
You can highlight decorated players and change the size of your list, as well as show contextual information about First yellow cards, Yellow cards, Red cards, and a Total number of cards.
Adding the Most decorated players widget to a post:
To add a Most decorated player widget to a post (Article, Video, or Gallery):
Select the + button to open the blocks menu.
Then, Football widgets-->Most decorated player.
Once the widget configuration panel opens, select a Tournament and Season in the designated boxes.
When you do that, you will notice other boxes appear below.
4. Use the Pick columns to show box to select card information.
5. Select the players you want to highlight in the Pick players to highlight in your list box.
Note that if you don’t select a player to highlight, your list will have as many positions as you set in the Show box below.
Use the Preview details section to set the number of decorated players to show in your list, and what position you want the list to start from (e.g., position 1 or 5, and so on).
If you highlight a player in the Preview details section, you can use the Offset box to set how many players to show in your list above and below the player you have highlighted.
7. When done, select Save Block.
The integration with the Onnetwork.tv video platform makes it possible to find and add football (and other) videos to your posts without leaving your editing screen.
After you configure Onnetwork.tv, you can add videos as supporting content or as main media to your post.
Adding Onnetwork.tv video as supporting content
To add a Onnetwork.tv video as supporting content, you need to add a Onnetwork.tv block to the body of your post:
Open an Article, Video, or a Gallery.
Go to the body and select + icon to add a video block.
From the menu choose Content > Onnetwork.tv video.
4. In the Choose video box, search by player, team, tournament, and so on for the video you want to add.
Note that you can preview your video before saving it, as well as copy the embed code or the video’s ID to use it somewhere else.
5. To add a video from the list, select it, and then Save Block.
Adding Onnetwork.tv video as Main media
In addition to adding Onnetwork.tv videos as supporting content, videos can also serve as the main media of your posts.
Note that Onnetwork.tv videos can only be used as main media in Articles and Videos, but you can add them as supporting content to the body of Articles, Videos, and Galleries.
To add a Onnetwork.tv video as main media:
Open an article or video.
Select the Media tab from your content properties.
Go to Choose Main Media > Embed video.
When the Video embed box opens, you can either paste your Onnetwork.tv video’s embed code or select Search Onnetwork.tv videos.
