Web Publishing Introduction

Web Publishing is League Analyzer's latest functionality designed to allow you to display updated data on your web site (or a custom web site you may ask us to build) with the click of a button.  Web Publishing is an add on feature to your League Analyzer desktop product.  Please see our web site for the latest pricing.

Throughout the software you may see this icon     This implies that the field or function is tied to our Web Publishing feature.  It is also located in the status bar to let you know if the software is currently connected to the Analyzer Web Publishing server or not.  When it is connected, you will have the ability to publish data throughout the application and not only from the web publishing set of tabs.

What is Web Publishing?

Web publishing allows users to send their data, in the form of reports, from their computer to an Analyzer Software Internet data server.  

Then from your own web site, you can access the data real-time by imbedding HTML code right into your own site.  Regardless of the technology that your web site is written in, you can use our service.

For example, if you wish to publish the latest standings to your web site, you first need to sign up for the web publishing service. Click here to sign up and get started.  Once you have signed up, you will receive your customerid and password allowing you to login.  Once logged in, you are ready to go.

Display the standings on the standings screen you wish to publish.  Simply click the publish button and the standings data is published to our Analyzer Software database server.  Now include some HTML into your site where you want your standings to be displayed.  An example of the HTML code is shown below, this is not actual code that will work with your site, the web publishing screens will provide that for you.  Once you place this code into your site, you will not have to do it again.

That is it, now every time you publish standings from the software, your site is updated real-time...very cool!

What control do I have over WHAT is Displayed on my Web Site?

We are launching our Web publishing service in 4 main areas, standings, schedule reports, contact reports and statistic reports.  What you will be publishing are reports.  Raw data is not being published for two reasons.  First, reports provide you the ability to a display the data, columns, sorting, groupings, etc that you want...and display the same data (i.e. schedules) in many different formats.  The other and most important reason is that having your computer crush the numbers for standings, schedule and statistical calculations, removes the load on our server and the response time of your users to view your data.  

So if you have a 100 team league and you wish to publish team schedules to show on each teams home page, you have to publish 100 reports?!  Absolutely NOT!  That would be really user UnFriendly.  You control the format and data from the reports that you publish, but through our web components that you place into your site, you can also further control the data, columns and even look and feel.  So if you publish a schedule report for all teams, you can add a team parameter to your HTML code to display whatever team you want.  That applies to a number of parameters.

What control do I have over HOW it is Displayed on my Web Site?

Well one thing is for sure, we did not create a design template and tell you that you are stuck with our wonderful choice of fonts and colors.  On the contrary.  We dedicated an entire function allowing you to customize the look and feel of what is displayed.  After all it is your web site that the data is being displayed.  So we decided that you should be the one making the design decisions and we are only too happy to provide the facility for you to make that happen.  Our look and feel section allows you to customize 13 different display element (titles, group headings, odd rows, even rows, footers, notes, background, etc) with your own colors, fonts and sizes.  Create different looks for standings, schedules, rosters, statistics, every section that is published can have a customized template...up to 5 templates each.  You can display each of your leagues or divisions with a different template.

Are there any special requirements?

There are three requirements.  Before downloading and installing any of the software below, you should first try the service to see if any errors are encountered.

1. When you go to publish data, you must be connected to the Internet.

2. You must have Internet access to our Analyzer Server through a port 3306.  What the heck does that mean?  Well normal Internet traffic uses port 80.  So nearly all firewalls are configured to allow traffic going to the Internet on port 80 through the firewall.  However, if the firewall has not been configured to allow traffic through port 3306 (MYSQL port) then you will not be able to connect to our database server to publish data.  How will you know if you have access to port 3306?  Well when you try to login the software will check for you and provide you with a message if you do not have access because of a firewall configuration issue.  This is usually only a problem when connecting via the office, nearly all home ISP providers allow traffic to our database server.

3. Finally, you need to have the latest MYSQL drivers installed. These are configuration files installed on your computer that allow our program to talk to our server.  Why did we not install them with the software?  Quite simply, if you do not wish to use this service you do not need them.  How do you do you download and install these drivers?  Simply click here to be prompted to save the file, http:/download.analyzersoftware.com/MyODBC-3.51.11-1-win.exe, on your computer (7mb).  Once downloaded, simply run the file.   

Sounds good!  How do I get started?

 Click here, or Visit www.analyzersoftware.com to sign up for a free trial account and give our Web Publishing a test drive.  See our web site for more details.