Release Notes 3.5.0.

The News tracker is a new feature that allows journalists to create feeds and follow their preferred news outlets, video and social media channels inside the Sportal365 CMS.

The tracker can be accessed by selecting News tracker from the left sidebar and consists of a list of sources (Location) and a name. A source (or location) is any of the following:

• RSS (XM) feed

• YouTube channel

• Twitter account

• Instagram account

You can add up to 50 sources in your feed. To add a source to your feed, you need to enter a Location and then save it. When you do that, the system will check the validity of the source (URL) and if the source is valid, the name will be auto filled; you can change the name later if you wish. In case the source is invalid–you will see an error message.

Once you add sources to your News tracker, your feed will appear as a sidebar on the right side of your screen.

What sources can you add?

• RSS feed

Any valid RSS feed will do. For instance:

• YouTube channel

Any channel can be used. Please note the difference between a channel and a user. Users cannot be added.

Valid YouTube input:

Invalid YouTube input:

• Twitter account

Any valid Twitter account URL will do. For example:

• Instagram account

Any valid Instagram account URL will do. For example:

Adding from News tracker directly to your content

A great thing about the News tracker is that it allows you to add content from your feed–say, a BBC article–into the article, video or gallery you are working on as supporting material. Simply find the content you want in your feed and select Insert in content.   

Is active – whether to show or not in the feed.

You can rearrange/reorder the feed positions

With release 3.5.0., we introduce a revamped dashboard that allows CMS users to view content statistics for individual contributors, all users, or for a specific Player, Team or Category.

The CMS tracks how much content has been uploaded for the four main content types: articles, videos, galleries and images.

My content today

Under My content today, creators can see all the articles, videos, galleries and images they have uploaded for a certain day. Also, creators can view statistics for a one-week interval.

All content today

In the All content today section, CMS users will be able to see the uploaded to their website videos, articles, galleries and images by all users.

Player statistics

The Player statistics functionality of the dashboard lets you track how many articles, videos, galleries or images have been created for a specific player, for a specific time range.

Team statistics

The Team statistics functionality of the dashboard lets you track how many articles, videos, galleries or images have been created for a specific team, for a specific time range.

Category statistics

The Category statistics functionality of the dashboard lets you track how many articles, videos, galleries or images have been created under a specific category for a specific time range.

The Team comparison is a new widget that compares the performance of two teams for a particular tournament and season. Also, you can compare the performance of the same team but during different seasons.

Selecting statistics to display

The widget allows users to choose what statistics to display when comparing too teams such as Matches played, Draws, Defeats, Goals scored, Goals conceded and more.

Adding odds data

Similarly to the Player H2H widget, the Team comparison widget lets you add odds at the bottom of your team comparison. To do that, you must select a team, a match, bookmakers and markets to display.

With this release of the Sportal365 CMS, we update the Squad/team players widget and add the ability to display injured and suspended players.

When you select to display injured players, a yellow card will appear next to the name of the player that is injured. Likewise, when you select to display suspended players, a red card will appear next to the of the player that is suspended.

We now have the ability to prefill the bookmaker’s betslip (needs colaboration with bookmaker)

When you select odds, instead of sending you something

They can define the betslip