concrete5 For Sports Team
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All,
First off, I just want to say that I'm pretty impressed with concrete5. I am a coach and I have an elite travel team. We currently use Joomla! and I'm kind of at my wits' end. It can do just about all that I need, but I'm the only one that has an idea of how to use it.
So if anyone has time and would be so kind to as to answer these questions, I would be very appreciative.
1) Can concrete5 provide a mass-mailing feature to registered users?
2) Can it provide an easy method of displaying rosters?
3) Is there a scheduling/event registration capability function?
4) If it doesn't have any or all of these features, is it customizable to allow for these parameters.
Thanks.
Mark
First off, I just want to say that I'm pretty impressed with concrete5. I am a coach and I have an elite travel team. We currently use Joomla! and I'm kind of at my wits' end. It can do just about all that I need, but I'm the only one that has an idea of how to use it.
So if anyone has time and would be so kind to as to answer these questions, I would be very appreciative.
1) Can concrete5 provide a mass-mailing feature to registered users?
2) Can it provide an easy method of displaying rosters?
3) Is there a scheduling/event registration capability function?
4) If it doesn't have any or all of these features, is it customizable to allow for these parameters.
Thanks.
Mark
Excellent. Thanks for the info and the link for the examples.
I have kind of been a little hesitant to move to production mode with the site I'm using, and it is based solely on the mass/group mailing functions.
Is there a way to find out what would be included in the next release of c5? If this was to be included (group mailing feature) I could take it live now and then implement the new version once it's released.
thanks again for the info.
I have kind of been a little hesitant to move to production mode with the site I'm using, and it is based solely on the mass/group mailing functions.
Is there a way to find out what would be included in the next release of c5? If this was to be included (group mailing feature) I could take it live now and then implement the new version once it's released.
thanks again for the info.
funny you bring this up mark; i'm just finishing the final touches on a PHASE 1 C5 based website to replace the current website for the local soccer club. this is a larger community organization, so perhaps not as "elite", but we will have similar issues.
we are entertaining the idea of contracting out to have some custom blocks developed for registration, team rosters, field scheduling (practices and games) etc. next up were writing a scope of work document...
for now I only have to worry about the 800 or so children in the soccer program; next year this will be expanded to the three other programs under the same non profit umbrella (lacrosse, baseball, etc), so we really have to get this right the FIRST time.
we are entertaining the idea of contracting out to have some custom blocks developed for registration, team rosters, field scheduling (practices and games) etc. next up were writing a scope of work document...
for now I only have to worry about the 800 or so children in the soccer program; next year this will be expanded to the three other programs under the same non profit umbrella (lacrosse, baseball, etc), so we really have to get this right the FIRST time.
As far as I know, a newsletter/mass-mailing feature is in the works by the core team, and might be released in the next week or two. They said they just needed to get version 5.3.3 and eCommerce out the door first, which were both released in the last couple of weeks.
There are two new blocks that are pending approval to the marketplace that should make it easy to add rosters. I did this for the college using a page for each staff member and a custom template for the page list block (http://www.portlandbiblecollege.org/academics/faculty... ) but the new blocks are designed specifically for handling lists of people (one of the blocks), or for lists of anything (the other block). I think they should be approved and up on the marketplace soon as well.
There is a calendar block which should help with events, but I'm not sure if it has all of the functionality you are thinking of. If there is another service which provides the features you need, like a Google Calendar, it's easy to put the embed code in an HTML block, which I've also done for another client before.
In essence, concrete lets you work with straight HTML/PHP to build your page templates, then you can wire in any functionality you need with a few PHP tags. If there is something you need it is pretty easy to use an HTML block, create a custom block, or ask the community and have someone build it for you ;)
Let me know if you have other questions