My Organisations

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Bug Reports

There is a list of LMS bug reports here

If you notice a problem with the LMS please look at this list to check that the problem has not been reported already. If you wish to report a new problem request a new feature please use the main Ask for help link.

There is a list of LMS new feature requests here

Volunteers

Would anyone be interested in volunteering to:

  • Test changes to the system
  • Update the help files
  • Create new logins
  • Help new league organisers
  • Software development (needs good PHP skills and be willing to learn drupal)

If so contact Malcolm

LMS Features

  • Team captains login and update match results to which they have been given access. Players are selected from predefined drop down lists.
  • Can be used for Team Leagues, Team knockouts, Individual Swiss, Individual All play all.
  • League tables updated automatically
  • Administrators login to define the league structure, events, teams, number of boards etc.
  • Automatic generation of file for ECF grading
  • Automatic League Fixture generation taking into account dates to avoid and teams to avoid clashes with.
  • Reports to track games played by none-members, Late matches, adjournments. 
  • Keep track of club details, team captains, and all the information to manage your league

ECF League Management System

Welcome to the English Chess Federation League Management System (LMS). See the ECF privacy statement The LMS is free to use for ECF affiliated Leagues, Clubs, Counties and Congresses. If you want to use the LMS:

  • Apply for a login here
  • Request a new organisation here

To get help:

For more general queries on English chess playing for new players and membership and fining clubs you should refer to the English Chess Federation web page  

To report bugs, please first check here to see if it has been reported already, then use the contact form under the Ask for help option at the top.

What has changed??

The LMS has undergone a major upgrade to new software. You will immediately notice the following differences:

  • The link to login is now at the top right
  • If you have bookmarked the link to your organisation in favourites it will not work any more. You need to find your organisation using the Organisations or Clubs links at the top. Then bookmark the new page.
  • To ask for help, report problems, or make requests use the Ask for Help link at the top.
  • Despite the difference in how it looks, everyone who had access before should be able to login, and update the same matches, in the same way.

For a detailed explanation of the changes see this page

Confusing Things

Sorry for confusion arising from the LMS upgrade. Some of the most confusing so far are:

  • Clubs in the system used to be present as two separate things. Clubs belonged to leagues and had teams. But some of them also existed as Organisations. Some people used to find this confusing. Therefore now a club only exists as one thing in the system combining these two concepts together. However this change has created its own confusion!! ( see below )
  • People who now have the access of club user, are able to do what a club owner could do before. All those who were previously club owners should have been changed to be club users
  • In the new LMS anyone who is a team captain can enter match results for their team
  • Club owners are now people who can run events like club championships ( they used to be owners of the club organisations in the previous LMS)
  • You can see what you have access to by selecting LMS Access from the drop down menu you get by clicking on the person icon next to your login id at the top right hand side.   

This link to the help has a table of the new access rules

News

  • Only default the winner setting to draw in a match card if the score is not zero. Only set the reporter if there are some results.
  • Do not include fixtures with winner=None in league tables, enter results or Late matches report.
  • Show winner when viewing a match card.
  • Add an un-report button in match card admin to remove the reporter in a match which should not have one yet.
  • In Admin/Players, put the player lists tab first to avoid confusion.
  • Reset board numbers to fix bug in delete board in match card admin tab.
  • Bug fix - remove dupes in players in lists option
  • Bug fix - stop new players confirm form showing wrong game list.

The LMS will do an extra run to send rating files to the rating system on the morning of October 30th at 2am. This is because some of the events sent on October the 28th did not get processed by the rating system. Just to be on the safe side any event with updates since October 21st will be sent again. Nobody needs to do anything - this is just a warning for results officers that they will receive an extra email than normal.

  • Main fixtures drop down for team - shows alphabetic order
  • owners of leagues can now add owners to the clubs in their leagues
  • fix to game count in auto rating report ( next time auto rating runs)
  • bug fixes to Excel links

LMS updates:

  • Event Player Stats - bug fix to performance rating and added link to how the rating was calculated
  • Honour the season order flag in listing seasons/fixtures
  • Bug fix - email attachment now works
  • Bug fix - enter results now lists fixtures to verify
  • Bug fix - main fixtures tab, action of Excel and ICAL now working
  • List club code after the name when adding clubs ( or specifying players club )
  • Default club for new players to the club that the player list belongs to,
  • New Tabs: Players in Lists and Player Lists added under Admin/Players for an organisation
  • Player list link move to top of player record to ease navigation back
  • Add New player now defaults club for club player list and puts club code after the name
  • PDF and API/plain pages missing match result added in fixture lists
  • Comments made visible for those without the permission to update them and shown on enter match result.
  • Event standings byes now shown properly
  • Only active clubs included on the my organisations list after login