On this guide, customers will find the steps to set up the Hosted Solution (Widgets) for your league/competition.
This is an example of the Hosted solution preview website: https://footballdemo.com/internal/index.php
Please pay attention to the 2 URLs that were provided to you (XXXX - your client code):
- URL of preview of the Hosted solution page: (https://hosted.wh.geniussports.com/XXXX/).
- URL of admin panel of Hosted solution (http://hosted.wh.geniussports.com/admin/XXXX/).
In order to obtain access to the admin panel, and your client code, you should submit a ticket here and our support team will be glad to help you!
To set up a new Hosted Solution account you will first need to do some basic configurations in the admin page:
1. General page
2. Languages
3. Data
4. Implementation code
1. General page
On the first section of the admin page, you will be able to determine the way your Hosted Solution is going to be organized and how it will look like.
Timezone - This should be set to the time zone for which the league operates in.
1 - Display Main Navigation - choose to display navigation tabs in the main Widgets page.
2 - Display Competition Selection - choose to allow different competition selection.
3 - Display League Selection - This will display a dropdown menu similar to the one for "2 Competition Selection". If your league/federation has several leagues (like Teens, Female, etc...), you will be able to navigate through them.
4 - Display Competition Year Selection - choose to allow different seasons selection.
5 - Display the club's logo if the team does not have a logo - self explanatory.
6 - Display the league's logo / name - choose to fill top header with league's logo and name. Competition name is displayed by default.
7 - Display competition logo instead of league logo if available - if competition has own logo, this can be displayed rather than league logo.
The above mentioned settings appear as follows in the Widgets (Hosted Solution) page.
Additional Setup
1 - Google Analytics Code - a premium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
2 - Client Code - unique 3-5 letters code allowing to view Live Match Center. This is provided by Genius Sports.
3 - Embed Live Match Center - This is how it looks in the schedule:
Once you click on "LIVE NOW", you will be redirected to the match center on your website. This includes a timeline of the match events, a summary of the events for each player, and a live play-by-play (commentary):
4 - Color scheme - allows changing block background, block text and link colors according to the league's brand book.
Access
1 - Independent or preview page - should be selected while you set up your Widgets page. When you are happy with the result, you can switch to embedded.
2 - Embedded - should be selected when the Widgets page will be embedded on a user's external website or on a Genius Sports Standard or Advanced Website.
3 - Domain - Domain link(s) of the external page(s) should be added as an allowed referrer. Please do not use https or www.
2. Languages
In this section you will be able to choose the languages in which your Hosted Solution will be available to be visualized and which will be the default language of the website and the widgets.
The currently available languages in the system are: Arabic, Chinese, English, Italian, Lao, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Some language options, like English and Spanish, have regional variations available in the side tab.
If a league/federation wants to implement a different language from the ones currently available, we will ask them for support in the translation process of the product.
If you choose more than one language, a language selection box will be displayed in Hosted Solutions:
3. Data
1 - Choose leagues - in case your account has several leagues, here you will be able to select the leagues from which you want to show the competitions in the website. This is a mandatory field.
2 - Choose competitions - allows to choose which competitions will be displayed in the Hosted Solution.
3 - Default - lets you choose the competition that will be displayed by default when the page is opened.
All active competitions will be displayed in the drop down box:
4. Implementation code
You can use Implementation code to embed the widgets to your external website.