September 2023 Updates

Changing Court Availability

In the past, vsBadminton let you select the number of courts to use in your session. You could also label the courts, so if you were using courts labelled “2”, “3” and “4”, you could specify three courts and label them to match.

Now to make it more convenient to change the courts that are being used, mid-session, there is a new Playing Hall screen where you can input the full number of courts that are in the venue you are using, and then select which of those are available for your games with simple checkboxes.

You can still relabel them, but unless your venue has very curious naming, you won’t need to.

The “Number of Courts” on the Admin screen is now the number of courts that are available for your session (including courts that you are actively using as well as those that are free for new games).

Click “Edit” next to the number of courts to go to the Playing Hall screen. There you can set the full number of courts in the venue, and select which of them are available for your session.

Scheduling Court Changes

This is an advanced feature – best to get used to the basic features before you use this

If you know that you need to change the courts at a particular time, you can schedule the change in advance. Click the “Schedule changes ⏲” button and put in the time that you want the change to happen, and click . The court list will change from showing the currently available courts, to letting you select which courts will be available at the time you specified.

You can edit your schedule by selecting a time you have already added, and changing the courts it uses, or by deleting entries in the schedule table.

Your schedule is remembered from one session to the next.

You must select your appropriate timezone above the schedule table. Select based on your location, and daylight clock changes will be automatically accounted for.

Training Partners change

There has been one other small change in September, to the handling of training partners.

If you have enabled that feature, then a selected partnership will be picked together, provided both partners are available to be picked. If one partner is already playing a game, the partnership was ignored and the other partner can be picked to play a different game.

That has now been changed: If training partners are enabled, and a player’s selected partner is present but playing in a game, the picking algorithm will normally avoid picking the player until his or her partner is available to play with him or her.

As always, feedback on the changes or other issues with the application is very welcome