The Venue View provides a calendar format of fixtures that have been added to the calendar.
It will open by default on the next upcoming date of the competition you are working in. The time will be filtered to display the period of use on that date, and will display all venues and games you have scheduled, plus any games scheduled on those venues in other competitions and phases on that date. If the filtered venues are shared with another organisation, it will also display any fixtures that they have scheduled.
You can use filters to refine/expand this view. You can filter by grade, location, venue, time of fixture, or date of fixture.
Colours are used to make it easy to identify fixtures that are in the same grade. Fixtures from other phases or competitions will appear in Grey.
In this article:
- Venue filter
- Interval filter
- Unallocated fixtures
- Moving fixtures
- Venue clash validation
- Team Preferences and Conflicts validation
- Venue blackouts
- Small sized games
- Exporting the Venue View
Venue filter
By default, when the Venue View is opened, only the venues selected for the competition you are working in will show. To select additional venues, use the search feature to find any venue, then select Apply.
Interval filter
The Venue View can be filtered into intervals of 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 minutes. To switch between these views, use the drop-down in the top right of the Venue View. For larger competitions, longer interval lengths can improve load times on the Venue View.
Unallocated fixtures
Any fixtures set as Unallocated when your draw is created will appear across the top row, in the Unallocated area. Simply drag these fixtures down from the Unallocated row to an available venue, and this will automatically update your draw in all areas, including the public view.
Moving Fixtures
All games scheduled in your SKED can be moved by dragging & dropping within the Venue View. Although it is useful to park fixtures on a venue temporarily while rearranging fixtures, care should be taken to avoid overloading venues that have reached capacity. Up to eight fixtures can be scheduled on the same venue at the same time, based on the venue size set in Grade Defaults for a particular grade. Once a venue has reached capacity, any further games placed on that same venue will appear with a Red outline, flagging a clash. You will not be prevented from over-assigning to a venue, but clash validation will warn you that action may be required.
Note: If a venue is shared with other organisations, you’ll also see their fixtures at that venue. You can move another organisation’s fixture if you’re a SKED administrator for that competition at the organisation that runs it. This lets you manage a shared venue in one view, without switching between organisations. Fixtures you don’t have administrator access to are locked and can’t be dragged.
Venue clash validation
Venue clashes are highlighted in the Venue View by a Red outline to the fixture. You can hover over the game to see the cause of the clash.
A clash will be identified:
- When the venue is already in use by another competition or phase, or - in the case of a shared venue - by another organisation.
- If the fixture you are assigning is too large for the venue to accommodate.
- If the set game duration for a fixture exceeds the time available before the next game on the venue commences.
Note: A clash identified in the Venue View will still update the draw and allow the draw to be published on the website. It is a warning mechanism to allow you to make changes to the draw if necessary.
Team Preferences and Conflicts validation
Teams that have time conflicts or team conflicts set in SKED Comp Builder will have their fixtures displayed with a Yellow border, as a visual indication when a team’s preferences have not been met. The fixture will need to be reviewed by the SKED user, and where the fixture is moved and the team preferences have been met, the Yellow border will no longer appear.
See more: Team Preferences and Conflicts
Note: When there is a venue clash and a team conflict on the same fixture, the outline around the fixture will be Red, as it is for venue clashes. When hovering over the fixture, the venue clash and team conflict details will be displayed.
Team Conflict
Time Conflict
Venue blackouts
When a venue blackout has been set, it will be visible in the Venue View. Fixtures will not auto-assign during the blacked-out period, but you will not be prevented from moving a game within the Venue View to a blacked-out venue. For more information relating to venue blackouts, see this support article.
Small sized games
A grade can be set to use less than a full-size venue to accommodate a game. Settings include 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/8. SKED facilitates this by assigning more than one fixture to the same venue, or alternatively allowing more than one game to be dragged onto the same venue in the Venue View. Fixtures played on less than a full-size venue will automatically have a label assigned to the venue to indicate what portion of the venue the fixture will be played on - for example, ABC:1a, 1b, or 1c.
Exporting the Venue View
The Venue View can be exported and printed by selecting Export PDF. You can use the time filters to display more information before exporting this view, if you wish.