...
We love improving your experience with the Sportal365 CMS , and in version 3.13.0, we introduce new blocks features and update several components of the platform that make the content creation process faster, richer, and more intuitive.
Here’s what’s new:
New Features
Team form football widget
Preview before adding Football widgets preview
New Polls block
Improvements
Match suggestions/filtering in Improved Tags functionality
Category organization
Improved List updating
Widget improvements
...
Here are more details about the latest improvement and features:
| Expand | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
We are happy to say that with the The latest features of the Sportal365 content management system creators can preview football widgets before adding them to their post. Also, we add a new Team form widget and Polls block that let journalists increase audience engagement with their content. Widget preview in Block menuplatform include new football widget blocks, as well as a Polls block. Football widgets previewRelease 3.13.0. introduces a functionality allowing creators 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 journalists you quickly decide whether it is the right widget to use or not. Previewing a widgetfrom the Block menu To preview a widget from the Block menubefore adding it to your postThe preview of football widgets without adding them to your post happens from the block menu. To do so:
On the image below you can see the preview of the Player profile widget.  Team form widgetThe Team form widget is a new football widget that lets journalists show allows you to show in your post how a team is performing performs after a specific number of matches. The Team form widget looks at the performance of a team analyzes a team’s performance during the last 15 matches (15 is the match limit), adds the points from the team gains for each Win (33pts.) / Loss (00pts.) / Draw (11pts.), and then divides it 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 postTo add a Team form widget to a post (Article, Video, or Gallery):
.png?version=3&modificationDate=1604585264871&cacheVersion=1&api=v2&width=442) 3. Once the widget configuration panel opens, enter a Team / Tournament / Season and set a Match limit.  4. When done, select Save Block. Polls blockWith this latest update of the Sportal365 CMS, we add a Polls block to the Content blocks menu. Now, you can add a poll to your Article, Video, and Gallery 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 postTo 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:
 3. When theconfiguration 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:  |
| Expand | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||
The latest release of the Sportal365 system introduces unveils new features, as well as several improvements to Tags, Categories, and Lists. Improved Tags functionalityNowFrom 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. MoreLoad more Upcoming/Pastmatchesmatch suggestionsWe have greatly expanded the number of suggested matches users can pick from in the Upcoming/Past matches section. As you knowWith a Load more button, you can browse past the seven-match limit used before.  Previously, when you enter a football connection–say, Manchester United–tagged a post with a football connection (team / player / tournament), the system offers Past/Upcoming matches to tag your post with. However, so far, the CMS offered as suggestions only the last 7 matches connected to a certain team/player. We have added a new Load more button that lets you browse a larger number of matches. offered only 7 upcoming/past matches as suggestions to use for your post. New match filterAnother improvement to the Tags section is the Matches filter that . It lets you journalists create detailed match searches defined by Tournament and Date. in relation to the defined football connections. You can filter matches for a certain team based on tournament, season, and date.  Better Category organizationRelease 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 (re)arrange them in any way you want. To create a hierarchical tree, you have to 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.  FasterListediting of ListsWith the latest update, when you edit a list, you can add content fasterThe 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 do itsearch for a query, but after you can also only select the type of post you want to search for–Article, Video, Gallery–, and the system offers will offer you the last 20 pieces of content depending on your content type selection. It could be The last 20 Videos/ Articles/, The last 20 Articles, or The last 20 Galleries. 
Widget improvementsAlong with the new widgets and features, three other football widgets come with improved functionality in release 3.13.0. Standings widgetThe 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.
Top scorers widgetIf 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 widgetUse 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” } |