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Adding a facility and Configuring Courts for a Tournament- Order of Play

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You can add courts to a facility/facilities where your tournament will be held. This will allow you to schedule the matches on each court.  For more information on scheduling, please refer to the Scheduling Matches in Tournament Desk Overview.

Manage the facilities 

Manage the facilities and Courts

 

 

How to Add a Facility and Configure Courts for Tournaments

  • Launch Tournament Desk
    • Navigate to Tournament Desk by clicking Launch Tournament Desk on the tournament menu.

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  • Access the Schedule tab.

 

  • View your facilities.
    • Click on Manage facilities to access the facility or facilities where your tournament will be held.

 

  • Manage your facilities.
      • You can Add a new facility by clicking Add facility.
        • If you wish to Add Facility you will need to state how many courts are at your facility and also provide an abbreviation, which will be shown on the draw. i.e. West College Park could be WEST or WCP.
    • To edit an existing facility, click on a facility listed under Locations. 

 

  •  Configure the facility courts.
    • You can configure the courts when adding a new facility or editing an existing facility, by clicking Configure Courts in the facility details. 

 

  • Add Court information.
    • To add a new court, click Add new court, and edit the court availability time by clicking on the time listed for the new court.
    • To delete a court, click remove court.

 

  • Save your court information.
    • Click Save courts to save the changes made to the courts.

 

  • Finalize the facility changes.
    • To finalize the changes to the new or edited facility, click on Update on the facility details.
      • You are now able to schedule matches on the courts at these facilities.  

 

 

 

Manage the facilities and Courts

Status of Facility - enabled or disabled 

  • The ‘status’ toggle  can be used to turn the facility on or off as needed:  It can also turn courts on and off as needed.  Below is the whole facility.
  • If the toggle is turned off then the following will happen:
    • Via the ‘Assign court’ button on the schedule page
    • Will be removed from the ‘On court’ component
    • The facility will be removed in the ‘Schedule time’ menu item
    • The facility will be removed in the ‘Reschedule’ button on the Conflict reports page
    • The facility will be removed from the ‘Auto schedule’ component
    • All courts associated with the facility will be disabled so that matches can not be scheduled on them
  • If a match is on court and the facility is toggled off then the match will still be linked to the facility but it won't be displayed in the on court module.

Edit the Status, Name, Availability of Courts 
Tournament Directors can  set up court availability in a facility using Court Configuration for their tournaments.

To do this:  In tournament desk - schedules tab - manage facilities - 
Click COURTS on the facility you wish to edit, you can: 


 

Then click the three action dots on the court you wish to edit. 


    • Add default Court Configuration 
    • Delete Courts
    • Edit Availability
    • Edit Court Name 


You can turn the whole  court off by sliding the toggle left. This will disable the who court: 





 

 

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