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- Equip your Website for Score Posting by Golfers! -

You can equip your own website to allow golfers to post scores there, and then download those scores into your ScoreKeeper Clubhouse software.  Scores can be posted as total scores, or as hole-by-hole scores.  There are two methods for doing this; the method you should choose depends on whether or not you use Microsoft's "Frontpage" website builder software to manage your website.

1)  If you do not use Microsoft FrontPage software for your site ...
You can create your website and score-entry web pages using any software you choose.  However, to enable ScoreKeeper Clubhouse software to download scores posted by golfers on your website, those scores must be saved on the site in a specific file format as described here.  You will need this information only if you do not  use Microsoft Frontpage to manage your website.

2)  If do use Microsoft FrontPage software for your site ...
- You must have Microsoft's FrontPage 2002 (or later) software.
- The company that provides your web hosting service must support  the "Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions".
  (This is a common feature; many web hosting services offer it.)
- You can download below pre-built web pages which provide for score posting by golfers.  Using FrontPage,
   you will customize these pages and add them to your website.

You can set up and run the score posting capability on your website using any ScoreKeeper software package .... even our free evaluation software, or a non-Clubhouse software package (i.e. our "Standard" or "League/Tournament" packages).  However, to actually record in ScoreKeeper the scores posted on your site, you will need a ScoreKeeper Clubhouse package.  

Please print this page so you can refer to the following instructions in setting up your website for score posting.

Instructions for equipping your website for score posting by golfers:

Note:  the web pages described here were created using Microsoft Frontpage software, and are useable "as is" only if you have Frontpage software.  See above if you prefer to build your own web pages from "scratch".  

1) Click here  to download a "zip" file containing the web pages that provide for score posting, along with some associated image files.

2) "Unzip" the downloaded zip file, extracting the files contained in it.  Save these files onto your windows desktop or to a temporary folder of your choice.

3) Launch the Microsoft FrontPage program.  Open your Website, and import the downloaded files into it (the "import" feature is in the FrontPage FILE menu).  Important!  Do not simply copy the downloaded files into your Website folder.  Rather, use the "import" feature in FrontPage.  Otherwise, the hyperlinks to the image files may be set incorrectly by FrontPage.  

4) Add any customization that you wish.  For example, insert you own club, league or association name into the pages.  Insert your own email address.  Insert your own golf course identifiers into the (optional) hole-by-hole score posting pages.  Also, you may have a logo image which you wish to display on your web pages.

5) Re-publish your Website to your web hosting service, including the new pages and image files.

Instructions for posting scores and for downloading scores into ScoreKeeper:

When your website has been modified as described above, your golfers can post scores there, and ScoreKeeper software can then download those scores for inclusion in the scoring record of each golfer.  These two processes -- score posting and download -- work as follows:

1)  Score Posting by Golfers:  Direct your golfers to the web address where you have published a score posting page, for example: "www.YourSite.com/ScoreEntry.htm" (where ScoreEntry.htm is the name of a score posting page).  Golfers fill in the form found on that page to post their scores.  The form assures that golfers enter certain required information such as ID code (the same ID code you assign to each golfer in ScoreKeeper), date of play, and total or hole-by-hole score.

All posted scores are automatically added to a special file named "ScoreKeeperWebScores.txt" which is automatically created on your website by the score posting page.  This file retains all scores posted until they are downloaded into ScoreKeeper as described in the following.

  2)  Download of Scores into ScoreKeeper:  Your ScoreKeeper software contains a "download" feature which retrieves from your website the scores which golfers have posted there.  The location of this feature in your ScoreKeeper software depends on the type of package -- Clubhouse, League/Tournament, or Standard -- which you have.  (Clubhouse packages provide the true download feature; other packages provide a demo only.)
  - Clubhouse packages:  In the Scoring Records menu, select the "Web-based Score Entry" item. 
  - Standard & League/Tournament packages:  In the Help menu, select the "Demo: Download Web Scores"
    item.  (In this demo; scores are downloaded and can be viewed on screen, but are not saved in ScoreKeeper.)

A window titled "Download Scores from Website" then appears.  In this window, you enter the URL ( e.g. "yourSite.com") of your Website, and your user name and password for the site.  ScoreKeeper will then download all the scores which golfers have posted on your Website since your previous download, if any.  You can examine the downloaded scores and delete any (e.g. an invalid score) before saving the scores in Scorekeeper.  Click on the HELP button in the "Download Scores from Website" window for a full description of downloading and saving scores.