Blocker users from a pool (survivor vs. pickem)

[holgar]

Hey Everyone,
This year I'm capping the number of pickem players to 30 people. I had more than that last year and there were too many ties for my liking.

The way I run my pool is everyone pays upfront for the season and must play each week. Also, everyone playing in the pickem is also required to play in the survivor pool. With the cap this year, I want to allow people not able to get into the pickem pool to still enter the survivor pool.

Is there a way to disable the pickem pool for a user but enable the survivor? I assume it would involve adding a flag in the user profile that the pick entry page (and banner menu) looks for? Has anyone done this?

Thanks

[lurkmaster1]

This would be really nice if there were a way to limit which pools a user could access.

We have people that are in both pickem and survivor. Others are just in survivor. And then a few that are just in pickem. So, limiting access would eliminate any picks made in the wrong pool.

[raider_nation]

I think that will require some re-coding of several pages.

I know this isn't the optimal solution but you could set up 2 different sites. One just for survivor and one just for pick'em. I only run a survivor pool and removed all links\ref to the pick'em pool so users don't get confused.

[Stutgrtguy]

I would love this! Atm I have the "survivor pool" on the drop down menu in bright yellow, and rest white - to avoid confusion, but we always get some tag alongs that wanna "try for free"

I feel bad editing in a loss so i let em go, but it gets confusing for me now.

[jhronesz]

I have something like this because I run a playoffs in the weekly pool after week 13. Any user not in the playoffs would still need access to the survivor pool if they are still alive. I'll have to remember how my coding works. If I can figure it out again (I wrote it several years ago), I'll share.

[kingmullet]

I would love this! Atm I have the "survivor pool" on the drop down menu in bright yellow, and rest white - to avoid confusion, but we always get some tag alongs that wanna "try for free"

I feel bad editing in a loss so i let em go, but it gets confusing for me now.

How do you change the color of that specific menu item? I know there is a style defined for it, do you make a new one?

[Stutgrtguy]

In reply to KingMullett -

in the includes folder/menu.asp.
find

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[   %	if ENABLE_SURVIVOR_POOL or ENABLE_MARGIN_POOL then %>
				<td>
					<a href="#" onclick="return false;"><% = SidePoolTitle %> Pool <span class="arrow">&#9660;</span></a>
					<div class="subMenu">
						<a href="sideEntry.asp">Entry Form</a>
						<a href="sideStandings.asp">Standings</a>
						<div class="separator"></div>   ]

then change to -

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[   %	if ENABLE_SURVIVOR_POOL or ENABLE_MARGIN_POOL then %>
<td>
<a href="#" onclick="return false;"><span style="color: #ffff00;"><% = SidePoolTitle %> Pool <span class="arrow">&#9660;</span></a>
					<div class="subMenu">
						<a href="sideEntry.asp"><span style="color: #ffff00;">Entry Form</a></span>
						<a href="sideStandings.asp"><span style="color: #ffff00;">Standings</a></span>
						<div class="separator"></div>   ]

that will turn all of the menu for survivor yellow