FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions:

General…

How do I:

  1. Uninvite a player from a game?
  2. Change the order players are listed in?
  3. Change my team’s timezone?
  4. Get a mobile version of HappyTC?
  5. Get the HappyTC Facebook app working?

    Calendar…

  6. Import my schedule from my league’s website iCalendar feed?
  7. Export my schedule to Google Calendar, Outlook, or other app?
  8. Force Google Calendar to refresh and pick up the schedule changes exported?
  9. Turn off the extra all-day “rider” event that shows up when exporting to Google Calendar?

 

Answers:

Uninvite a player from a game:

  1. Go to Team Settings > advanced tab > Console
  2. Type list players
  3. Type list games
  4. Note the number of the player & game you wish to uninvite from (for example player #1, game #2)
  5. Type uninvite player 1 game 2
    (replacing with the actual player & game numbers)
  6. Click the team’s Refresh button

Change the order players are listed in:

  1. Go to Team Settings > advanced tab > Console
  2. Type update player-order X
  3. …where X is a number indicating sort order:
    0 (default) = sort by authority, regular/sub, gender, name, email
    10  = sort by positions, name, email
    15 = sort by regular/sub, positions, name, email
    20 = sort by name, email
    25 sort by = regular/sub, name, email
    (Type help update for more info.)
  4. Click the team’s Refresh button

Import a schedule from league’s website iCalendar feed:

  1. Please see /wtf/iCalendar for instructions.

Export my schedule to Google Calendar, Outlook, or other app:

  1. Click iCalendar > Export
  2. Copy the URL shown
  3. Paste into Google Calendar’s “import” or “add calendar” feature
  4. Note that Outlook is reported to have a bug whereby the timezone is ignored.

Force Google Calendar to refresh and pick up the schedule changes exported:

  1. Google Calendar is notorious for being hard to refresh and may take 24 to 48 hours to refresh — see this post at the Google Support Forum
  2. Try deleting in Google Calendar and then re-importing.
  3. Try adding extra “nonsense” parameters at the end of the URL when you import it into Google… such as “&forceToRefresh=yesPlease” to fool Google into thinking it’s an entirely new calendar being imported.

Turn off extra all-day “rider” event that is exported with the schedule:

  1. To turn off for a single game/event: click the game’s “more…” link, and enter an underscore (_) as the first character in the “more game notes” box.
  2. To turn off for all of a team’s events: go to Team Settings > advanced tab > Console
  3. Type in: update ical-rider-event off
  4. To turn back on, type in: update ical-rider-event on

Update my timezone:

  1. Go to Your Profile
  2. Select your timezone and click OK.
  3. In case your timezone is not included in the list, please contact us and we can help.

Get the HappyTC Facebook app working again:

  • (…assuming you were able to enable the HappyTC Facebook app)
  • Unfortunately Facebook updates its “API” frequently which often breaks apps built for Facebook (such as HappyTC’s).
  • In fact, Facebook actually won “Worst API” in a developer survey: A survey … aimed to determine which external APIs were the most difficult to integrate into developers’ projects. The winner…or rather, the loser? Facebook. Developers mentioned the Facebook API the most in terms having bugs, poor documentation, never-ending API changes, slow response times, and other headaches. TechCrunch, Aug 11, 2011. Full text here.

Use HappyTC for mobile: