There are many steps that go into building and duplicating team center forms. At first they look complicated, but after you have done a few they will start going very easily. I’ve broken down the process into steps below:
Step 1. Log In to Admin Panel on the website. This step is pretty straight forward. Log in to your account, and in the top left corner of the page, select The Battle Frontier drop down menu, and select Dashboard. STEPS 4 THROUGH 6 WILL ALL HAVE AN OVERLAPPING STEP, I’VE MADE THAT STEP 7 TO AVOID PUTTING THE SAME THING ON EACH STEP.
Step 2. Select the Form software from the menu on the left. You can find it under “Formidable” and then “Forms”.
Step 3. Duplicate an existing form. Each team center is broken into 9 components. Player Assignment, Scores, OGL, UL, ML, Field 1 Slot 1, Field 1 Slot 2, Field 2 Slot 1, and Field 2 Slot 2. It will help you immensely if you build the forms in this order (left to right). You will want to Duplicate from a previous team for the corresponding type of section. So if you’re going to work on Player Assignment next, duplicate a previous Player Assignment form from an earlier team.
Step 4. Updating the Player Assignment Form. The player assignment form is the first form to work on, and is integral for the remaining 8 forms. It serves as the point where Captains activate each players other sections. Other forms following this one will tie into this one, so I recommend keeping this form open in another window afterward to use as a reference. When you are in this form, there are a few things to update which I’ve labeled. Part 1, is updating the team name field. This field is pulling data from a master database of players, so the reference has to be updated with the correct team otherwise the wrong players will be imported in. Part 2 and Part 3 go hand in hand. You take the ID # from Part 2, and write it in the Default Value box of Part 3. This serves as a visual confirmation of data entry. When the Captain inputs their player selection and submits, this now forces the selection to show as the latest default value in the field box, providing visual confirmation of the selection and allowing the captain to roll over selections to the following week later. Parts 1-3 have to be done for each of the seven fields/metas. Click Update when finished or your changes won’t save. After this is done, you’ll see Step 7 for what to do under the “Settings” tab at the top of the page.
Step 5. Updating Scores. This step is much more straight forward. You have two parts to update for each of the 7 fields. The field name, and the default value. You will take the Field ID from Step 4 / Player assignment, and input it in the “Field Label” section. This is a visual confirmation that ends up displaying “___________’s Wins” on the form, where it fills in the blank with the correct corresponding name. The other part is updating the Default Value with its own Field ID like you did in Step 4, this again, is all for visual confirmation of the selections. Click Update when finished or your changes won’t save. See Step 7 when done.
Step 6 (Hardest Step). This is where each of the 7 metas get updated. This has 4 smaller parts that i’ve sub-divided. The first part, is updating the correct field to pull the assigned player from. This field takes the player selection from the captain, and transfers that data over to the Competitor form for that meta and locks it in place.
Step 6.1 Continuing updating the player spot. You need to choose the field they’re playing. These selections display as a code. But they always go in order. GL – > UL -> ML – Field 1 Slot 1 -> Field 1 Slot 2 -> Field 2 Slot 1 -> Field 2 Slot 2 from top to bottom. In this instance, the page is for the OGL player, so it would be the top option (id=216)
Step 6.2 Back to your visual confirmations. This one visual confirmation is slightly different than the others. You aren’t referencing it’s own field ID, you’re referencing the corresponding Field ID from the Captains Player selection form from Step 4. since that’s the data to display. In this instance, ID 5303 was the ID for the OGL player from the Captains page.
Step 6.3 Finishing the visual confirmations. For Pokemon 1-6, and their corresponding Shadow Selections, you’re going to do the typical visual confirmation process of entering it’s own Field ID in the Default Value spot. Leave the HTML boxes alone for now, I’ll update those since they’re the code for the sprites. Click Update when finished or your changes won’t save. See Step 7 when done with this Step. Step 6 gets repeated for EACH of the meta options.
Step 7. Updating the settings page. Fairly straight forward. Update The Form Title and Form Key with relevant Data. Form Title just change the name of the team. Form Key is less important, but I just put “initials of the team” and then the meta type or whatever data you’re on at the time.
