Overview
This QuickStart Guide will walk you through the process of getting up and running with jTips 2.0. Part 1 covers the following areas:
Part 2 of the QuickStart Guide focuses on adding teams to a season; creating rounds and games and processing results and ties it all together with some focus on how the changes made in the administrator area affects the interface and the user experience.
Being a QuickStart Guide, this document will not cover each of these areas in great detail. However, sufficient information has been included to get you started. Additional help articles will cover each of these areas in greater depth and detail.
Start by logging into the administrator area of your Joomla! website. You can normally get to this by adding 'administrator' at the end of the web address in the location bar of your browser. For example, if your website is at http://www.example.com/, then your Joomla! administrator area is located at http://www.example.com/administrator.
 Ensure that legacy mode is enabled in your system. Navigate to Extensions > Plugin Manager and browse the list for System - Legacy. Make sure this plugin is enabled. You will see a notification at the top of the page in the administrator area to inform you that legacy mode is enabled.
 Next, navigate to Extensions > Install/Uninstall. You will be presented with the extension installation page. From here, click the Browse button and locate the jTips package, then click Upload File & Install. Joomla! will install jTips and show the results of the installation - this will be in the form of the jTips splash page.
jTips is now installed!
Now we can go straight to the jTips Configuration page. Navigate to Components > jTips > Configuration. This will load the jTips Configuration page. There are five parts to the configuration area:
- General
Setup intergration with Community Builder, configure how users are added to competitions.
- Display
Configure the jTips dashboard, section titles, visual effects and ladder sizes.
- Notifications
Create notification email templates that are sent to users at various times.
- PayPal
Enter PayPal code to accept payments and subscriptions via PayPal. Find out how to set it up!
- Activate
Enter license key information and validate your copy of jTips.
 Click on the 'Activate' tab to get started using jTips. This area has only two fields that you need to fill in.
Enter the details you received when purchasing jTips and click the 'Save' button. This will update your configuration settings and validate your activation details. You will then be returned to the jTips Administrator Dashboard
Navigate to Components > jTips > Season Management. jTips will load the list of season/competitions that have been entered. At this stage the list will most likely be empty. Click the 'New' button.
You will be presented with the Season edit page. Most of the options here are self-explanatory and will dealt with in more detail in another Guide. Here we will describe the essentials to getting up and running.
- Team Points - these options determine the number of points allocated to teams when they win, lose, draw, or have a bye.
- Pick Options - jTips 2.0 supports a variety of ways participate. Each of these options can also be enabled at a per game level.
- The Bonus - some competitions have bonus points awarded to a team that, say, wins by a certain number of points, or even if a team scores a certain number of points. You can enable this option to allow your users to select which team they think will be awarded this bonus. This option is applied on a per game basis.
- The Score - allow users to pick the exact score for a game. They enter their estimate for the home team's points and their estimate for the away team's points.
- The Margin - lets your users enter their estimate for the margin of a game. This is the difference between the points scored by the winning team and the losing team.
- The Draw - with this option enabled, your users will not only be able to select which team they think will win, but also if they think the game will end in a draw
- User Points - this section controls the number of points allocated to each user based on their estimate and the result of each game.
- Correct Points - the number of points awarded to a user for a correct tip of the winning team for a game
- Draw Points - the number of poitns awarded to a user for correcly tipping a draw for a game
- Does Not Tip Points - how many points should be awarded for a round to those users that forget to submit their tips for that round. Enter -1 to use the lowest score from a user that did tip in that round, or -2 to simulate that user having selected all the away teams, or simply enter any other number.
- Perfect Round Points - the number of additional points awarded to users that correct tip the result of each game for a round. Note, this does not include picking the correct scores, margins or bonus teams.
- Correct Score Points - the number of additional points awarded when a user correctly picks the exact right score, including the winning team.
- Correct Margin Points - the number of additional points awarded when a user correctly picks the exact margin of a game
- Correct Bonus Team Points - the number of additional points awarded when a user correctly picks the team that was awarded the bonus point for a game
- Precision Score - this feature helps to split very close competitions. Read More
When you are done with the season options, click the 'Save' button. You will be returned to the Season Management page and you should now have one item in the list - the season you have just created!
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