> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.gymart.org/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.gymart.org/connectors/connect-scorecat.md). # Connect ScoreCat > Link your meet to ScoreCat and start sending scores as they are entered. You want your scores showing up on ScoreCat's scoreboard while the meet runs. Here is how to hook the two together. ## Before you start * You are an admin on the meet in Gym Art Meets. * You have a ScoreCat account. Either an operator email and password, or an API key and a ScoreCat meet ID that ScoreCat gave you. * Your gymnasts are on the roster. A gymnast who is not on it is left out of what gets sent. ## Step 1: Open Connectors Open your meet, then click **Connectors** in the sidebar under **Score Exporting**. The page opens on **Import & publish**. At the top is the **Live publishing** card, then **Inbound** for imports, then **Outbound** with a card for MeetScoresOnline and a card for ScoreCat. The **Live publishing** switch on that first card is what sends scores to your connected partners as they are entered. Leave it on. Nothing goes out while it is off, whichever partners are connected. ## Step 2: Connect ScoreCat Find the **ScoreCat** card under **Outbound**. It says **Not connected**. Pick one of the two ways in. **If ScoreCat already set up your meet**, leave the toggle on **Enter details** and fill in: * **API key**. The key from your ScoreCat account. * **ScoreCat meet ID**. The meet on ScoreCat's side that your scores should land in. Click **Connect**. You get "Connected to ScoreCat." **If the meet does not exist on ScoreCat yet**, switch the toggle to **Set up automatically** and fill in: * **ScoreCat operator email** * **ScoreCat operator password** Click **Create & connect**. Gym Art creates the meet on ScoreCat for you and links it in one step. You get "ScoreCat meet created and connected." Your login is used once, to create the meet. What gets stored afterwards is the connection for this meet, encrypted, and it is only ever used to publish this meet. Creating the meet needs your Gym Art meet filled in first, and it refuses with a message naming what is missing rather than creating something half-right on ScoreCat under your club's name. The **Event details** card at the top of the Connectors page holds every required field — meet name, dates, organizer contact name and email, and club name — and flags the empty ones, so you can fill them there before you click. Unlike MeetScoresOnline, ScoreCat takes a meet fielding more than one discipline, so a combined WAG and MAG meet is fine here. It is also one-shot: it creates a meet on ScoreCat that Gym Art cannot rename or delete afterwards. A second click is refused rather than creating a duplicate. To delete the meet you have to go to ScoreCat and delete it there. ## Step 3: Check it took The card flips to **Connected** and shows three things: * **Meet ID**. The meet on ScoreCat that yours is now tied to. Worth a glance, because a typo here is the usual reason scores land somewhere unexpected. * **Status**. Reads **Not published** until the first send, then **Uploaded**, or **Failed** if ScoreCat rejected it. * **Last published**. The date and time of the most recent send. It appears after the first one. Once a judge submits a score, **Status** should reach **Uploaded** within about a minute. If it says **Failed**, the credentials or the meet ID are usually the cause. Disconnect, then connect again with the right details. ## What happens now Scores go out on their own for as long as the meet runs. Each send carries the apparatus scores entered so far, the all-around, the placements those scores work out to, and your club team standings. Every live send is flagged provisional, so ScoreCat shows it as in progress. When the **whole meet** is done and its scores are verified, press **Finalize meet** at the bottom of the page. That marks the results official. It covers the whole meet, not one session. Pressing it while a session is still running marks that session's part-finished scores official too, so wait until every session is done. What goes out is rebuilt from the meet as it stands at that moment, so it can differ from the last live send and picks up any score corrected since. Turn the **Live publishing** switch off first, or the next score entered anywhere in the meet sends the provisional version again over what you just published. ScoreCat identifies a session by its name, and every send carries the name the session has right now. Rename a session and the next send lands under the new name on its own, with nothing to reconnect. It does not tidy up, though. The session under the old name stays on ScoreCat holding whatever it last received, and no later send removes it. Disconnecting does not either: that clears the connection on the Gym Art side and changes nothing on theirs. To remove an old session, ask ScoreCat to delete it. ## Control what goes out Use the buttons on the ScoreCat card to control automatic publishing: * **Pause** stops sending to ScoreCat. What is already on their side stays. Other partners keep publishing. * **Resume** starts again, with the current scores rather than a backlog. * **Clear & resync** is for MeetScoresOnline. MSO merges each send into what it already holds, so a correction can leave a stale row behind; this tells MSO to drop its copy and take the next send whole. It rides along with the next live send, so wait for that rather than finalizing early. **ScoreCat ignores it**: ScoreCat already replaces a session outright on every send, and only ScoreCat can delete an old one. * **Disconnect** forgets the connection and the stored credentials. What is already published on ScoreCat stays there. To stop every partner at once, turn the **Live publishing** switch at the top of the page off instead. ## Related * [How publishing to partner platforms works](/connectors/index.md) * [Publish to MeetScoresOnline](/connectors/publish-to-meetscoresonline.md)