Team Sports Scheduling System
Build Date: 10/14/98
Version: 2.00.06


Thank you for evaluating the Team Sports Scheduling System 
v2.0! This document contains information regarding the 
capabilities and current state of the program when this 
version was shipped. Please read this document before 
using the Team Sports Scheduling System.

	o What Is It
	o System Requirements
	o Installation
	o Features
	o History of Changes
	o Known Issues
	o How To Submit a Bug
	o Uninstalling
	o Distribution
	o Contacting TC Software
	o Feature Requests

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======= What Is It?
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The Team Sports Scheduling System (TSSS) is a powerful 
program that helps you quickly create schedules for your 
sports league. All you have to do is enter your league, 
team, and venue information, select the available times to 
play, and TSSS will take care of the rest. TSSS can handle 
as many teams and venues you have, multi-division leagues, 
cross division games, and much more. You have an unlimited 
amount of freedom selecting available times for venues, 
leagues, and teams.  

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======= System Requirements
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* Basic Configuration: 

- 486/33 PC 
- Windows 95 
- 8 MB of RAM 
- 5 MB of free disk space 
- Printer to generate reports 

* Recommended Configuration: 

- Pentium class PC 
- Windows 95 or above 
- 16 MB of RAM 
- 800x600 screen resolution or better 

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======= Installation
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To install the Team Sports Scheduling System, download the 
self-extracting, self-installing file from our web site at 
http://www.timsworld.com/ . Save the file to your download 
directory (or wherever you want), and double-click the 
tsssetup.exe file. Follow the directions on screen to 
install the software.

If you have downloaded the zip version of the archive,
extract the tsssetup.exe file from the archive and
double-click it. This is a self-extracting, self-installing
file. Follow the direction on screen to install.

Note: We rely on the BrainTree Reg-O-Matic software to 
process credit card orders and to see how many people are 
trying out the program. The first time you run the Team 
Sports Scheduling System, you will be asked to enter your 
name, address, and telephone number. This information will 
only be used by TC Software to track how many people are 
trying the software. You will not be added to any mailing 
list. If you like, you can enter fake information in the 
required fields.

If you would like to receive e-mail updates when new 
versions or modules of the Team Sports Scheduling System 
become available, you can fill out the form on our web 
site at 
http://www.timsworld.com/products/tsss20/download.htm, or 
send a message to tsssupdates@timsworld.com with the word 
SUBSCRIBE in the subject. You don't need to join the 
e-mail list to find out if new versions are available - 
the Team Sports Scheduling System has a version checking 
feature built into it. To see if you have the latest 
version select the 'Check Version' option on the Register 
menu, or visit the update web page at 
http://www.timsworld.com/products/tsss20/update.htm. 

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======= Features
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There are many new features in this version of the Team 
Sports Scheduling System. TSSS 2.0 inherits very little 
code from the original TSSS 1.0, which means TSSS 2.0 was 
a complete re-write. This was necessary to incorporate new 
technologies and features into the program, and to make 
the program more flexible and powerful. We took what we 
learned in version 1.0, greatly improved upon it, and came 
up with the following program. We think you will be 
impressed! 

- Smart, powerful, and flexible automatic schedule 
  generation. 
- Unlimited amount of freedom selecting available time. 
- Leagues, venues, and teams can all select their own 
  available times for game play. 
- Game time duration from 1 minute to 23 hours, 59 
  minutes. 
- Built in multi-division support for leagues. 
- Wizard based data entry to walk you through every step 
  in creating a league, venue, team, schedule or report. 
- Easily regenerate a schedule with the click of a button. 
- Support for multiple versions of the same schedule for 
  presentation to the board and coaches. 
- Schedule teams at a home venue or pick from a pool of 
  venues available for scheduling. 
- Prioritize venue usage on a team by team basis, and/or 
  for an entire league. 
- Full support for manually creating schedules. Have TSSS 
  generate the game list and schedule the games for you, 
  or do it yourself. 
- Team and division standings support built in. 
- Contact management for leagues, teams, and venues. 
- Powerful, customizable print reports. These reports 
  included schedules (master, league, division, team, and 
  venue), standings (division and team), game lists 
  (scheduled and unscheduled), and contact lists. Preview 
  the reports on screen using Print Preview, your printer, 
  or export reports in .TXT format for importing into your 
  database or spreadsheet program. Also, publish reports 
  on the Internet using the HTML export option. 
- View schedules on screen with the day view, or use the 
  report view to quickly view only the information you 
  want. 
- Customizable user interface. 
- Each league, team, and venue can have multiple contact 
  individuals. 
- Much, much more! 

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======= History of Changes
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Please see the HISTORY.TXT file for a list of changes from 
version to version.

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======= Known Issues
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We have tried our best to make this version as bug-free as 
possible, but sometimes you run out of time. There are a 
couple items worth mentioning that you may run across 
while using this version. 

- If you create 2 or more season schedules during the same 
  time span, using the same master schedule, and with the 
  same teams playing in 2 or more season schedules, the 
  scheduled games might conflict with one another. To work 
  around this problem, don't create multiple season 
  schedules during the same time span using the same 
  teams. Instead, only create one season schedule and add 
  extra game sets to it. 
- Scheduling a large number of games takes some time. We 
  are currently optimizing the scheduling for better 
  performance. 

We will be working to resolve these issues and any others 
that come up. Naturally, an upgrade will be made freely 
available when these issues have been resolved.

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======= How To Submit a Bug
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Have you found a bug? We would love to hear about it. The 
bug report form can be found at 
http://www.timsworld.com/bugreport.htm.

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======= Uninstalling
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To uninstall the Team Sports Scheduling System, navigate 
to the TSSS program group created during installation, and 
click the Uninstall TSSS link. Follow the prompts to 
uninstall the program. Make sure TSSS isn't running before 
trying to uninstall. 

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======= Distribution
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You may freely distribute an unlimited number of copies of 
this program in its original form to any legal place unless 
told otherwise by TC Software.

You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting
donations, for any such copies, however made; and from
distributing the software and/or documentation with other 
products (commercial or otherwise) without prior written 
permission, with one exception:  Disk Vendors approved by 
the Association of Shareware Professionals are permitted to 
redistribute this Software without specific written 
permission.

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======= Contacting TC Software
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If you have a question about the program, please refer to 
the help file or tutorial. Also, somebody else may have 
already asked your question. You can check out the 
Frequently Asked Questions page for this product at 
http://www.timsworld.com/products/tsss20/faq.htm If 
neither of those resources answered your question, you can 
contact us using the following methods.

E-mail: support@timsworld.com
FAX: (425) 861-6976
WWW: http://www.timsworld.com/support.htm

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======= Feature Requests
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Would you like to see a feature added to the Team Sports 
Scheduling System? If so, please let us here about it! It 
is our goal to have the best sports scheduling software 
solution available on the planet! So, if you have anything 
you would like to see added, changed, or deleted from the 
program, send your input to feedback@timsworld.com. 

