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Preview guide

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What this is, and the four things to know before you begin.

Leagable is software for running pétanque leagues. A league plans its seasons, cups and fixtures; clubs look after their members, teams and grounds; captains pick their sides and enter results; and every league and club gets a public website that keeps itself up to date.

This preview lets you try all of it by signing in as made-up people in a made-up league. You can be a league organiser one minute and an ordinary player the next, and see the same season from each side.

Four things to know first

1 · It is unfinished, and it will change

Leagable is still being built. Screens, wording and whole features change from week to week — sometimes from one day to the next. Something you saw on Monday may look different, or be gone, by Friday. Some parts are missing altogether; the Not built yet page lists the ones you are most likely to notice.This guide is kept up to date, but it can fall behind. If the guide and the screen disagree, the screen is the newer of the two — and telling us is helpful.

2 · Everyone shares one demo

Everybody given a passphrase signs in to the same fictional league. If someone else enters a result, it appears in your league table too; if you delete a team, it is gone for them as well. Two people can even be the same demo person at once.

3 · The demo is reset — your changes are not kept

Whenever large changes are made to Leagable, the demo is wiped and rebuilt from its starting point. Everything anybody has done in it — results, players, settings, posts — is erased, usually without warning, and possibly while you are in the middle of something.That is expected, and nothing is wrong when it happens. Please don't put work into the demo that you would be sorry to lose: if you find something worth showing us, take a screenshot and note the steps. The resets section explains what you will notice.

4 · Nothing here is real

The people, clubs, places and results are invented, and no emails or messages are sent to anyone. But the demo league and club websites can be seen by anyone with the address, so please don't type anything private into them.

Your first five minutes

Open Demo accounts, type the passphrase you were given into the Passphrase box and press Enter.
For the safest start, choose Demo a match: you play both captains through one match, and nothing is saved.
Then, under An established league, find Team captain and press View as. You are now Céline Dubois, captain of Saint-Arnac A, half-way through a season.
Look around: the dashboard, the notifications, the calendar, your profile.
To be someone else, use Preview — switch account at the bottom of the left menu, and choose again.

Open the demo

In this guide

Getting in: Your passphrase, choosing who to be, switching, and leaving.
The demo worlds: The two fictional leagues, who shares them, and why they get reset.
Who you can be: Every demo person you can sign in as, and what each is good for.
Things to try: Walk-throughs for each role, from a whole season to a single result.
Public websites: The league and club sites anyone can visit, and how they fit in.
Not built yet: What doesn't work in the preview, what looks like a bug but isn't, and how to tell us.
Glossary: The words Leagable uses, in one line each.

The guide and the demo open in separate tabs, so you can keep this one open while you explore — on a wide screen, put the two windows side by side. Whenever you are signed in as a demo person, Preview — guide at the bottom of the menu brings this tab back.

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