Step 1: Advanced Competition settings

This is the first page you land on when you press the New Competition – Advanced button, to start creating a Competition. Fill in the Competition’s Name, Availability, and Description. Some fields are mandatory, others are optional.

This tutorial will guide you in filling in the Competition creation fields.

You can read more about the Competitions model in our API documentation Competitions

SETTINGS fields

EXAMPLES

» Name String

Mandatory

The Name of the competition that is exposed on the front end.

» Availability from Date/Time

Mandatory

Select the date (day/month/year) and time (hour: minute) when the competition will start in UTC.

» Availability until DateTime

Mandatory

Select the date (day/month/year) and time (hour: minute) when the competition will end in UTC.*

The End date/time of the competition must be at least 1 hour after the Start date/time.

» Container duration

Automated

The automatically calculated and implemented the time duration of a Competition (the ‘container’).

» Description String

Optional

A competition description that is visible to players.

» Metadata Array[Object]

Optional

Optional information you can store for reference.

APP Example:

Name	Summer End Competition
Availability from	01/09/2019, 12:00 UTC
Availability until	01/09/2019, 14:00 UTC
Container duration	0days 2hours 0minutes
Description	A competition to commemorate the end of summer!
Metadata: Key	Summer
Metadata: Value	1

API Example:

{
    "jsonClass": "Competition",
    ...
    "label": "Summer End Competition",
    "autoStart": true,
    "autoStartRetryInterval": 1000,
    "autoStop": true,
    "autoStopRetryInterval": 1000,
    "scheduledDates": {
        "jsonClass": "StartEndDate",
        "start": "2019-09-01T12:00:00.000+00:00",
        "end": "2019-09-01T14:00:00.000+00:00"
    },
    "actualDates": {
        "jsonClass": "StartEndDate"
    },

    "description": "Demo Fruits slot product",
    "metadata": [
        {

        "jsonClass": "Metadata",
            "key": "Summer",
            "value": "1"
        }
    ],
    ...
}

The API example provides only a simplified version of the POST body. A full example of POST Competition can be found in the Competitions APP API documentation here

If any mandatory fields are missing, the field is shown in red, as in the example below.

MISSING ENTRIES

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