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1. 1248 DOROTHY MK ABERNETHY TAUPO BRIDGE CLUB 1252 STANLEY ABRAHAMS AKARANA BRIDGE CLUB File Import Player Information IT The latest information will be From Fil To downloaded the previous te E 12s so e comercio arer information deleted and new aan i an ne oo moe cus updated information inserted n the ae al a database See ete eta ere When an import is in progress Scorer should not be closed until ee a the download completes or corrupt data may result If Scorer QOWOOOO has been closed prematurely the download can be repeated and allowed to finish Changes changes to this data can be made but will be overwritten next time the information is downloaded There is now an option to Clear Club Records This has been implemented so that if clubs change their name or number or new clubs affiliate the club list needs to be updated to relate players to their correct club The process to do this 1s Clear club records gt Yes Exit the screen and then return to Edit NZB Player File Import Clubs gt From Website Exit the screen and then return to Edit NZB Player File Import Player Information gt From Website 29 3 10 3 Edit Non Member File This option allows for creating and editing a list of players who are not NZB members This can be used for instance when you have visitors to the club who will be playing more than one session Visitors may be allocated a number beginning with 999 so
2. CommonDB To restore select the directory where the backup was Document Directories made as above Reports XML Click Restore Read Paths From Backup Highlight the folder that was created by the backup at the Select database instance time SQLServer Heidi You can customise where the restore returns to or read the Vo paths from the scorer ini file of the backup Scores Folder S iScoring congress Database Folder S WDatabase Click on the Restore button to start the restore Movement Folder 5S BoardMove It is important that the correct SQL Server instance is Root Folder S located This will normally be the CommonDB Folder S CommonDB COMPUTER_NAME SQLEXPRESS XML Folder S XML When Restore is clicked the user is given the opportunity to change the location of the SQL Database files l Restore BridgeNZ is now recommending that these be located in CANZB Scorer Database Restore Main Database Files The restore will now begin a File List DO NOT INTERRUPT THE RESTORE Logai fierame Move tophyscalfiename bridgenz_Data S Database pridgenz MDF You will now be able to start Scorer again with the data at A the point in time of the backup that was restored 3 3 9 Purge Events This facility is a nice way of removing historic events from the calendar and files from the underlying file system for earlier years This reduces system size and make
3. Additional documentation for this is available from the downloads section of the BridgeNZ web site 3 HAIP20131131210tue bd e Letter Room Section Players gt Enter Scores gt Nuberg Old Style No Tables No Bre DA A Pink 10 20 Create Database Create Ghost Database Delete Database s Start Remote Server Upload Names Upload Results 39 5 Teams Events Scoring There are 3 types of teams event in Scorer e Swiss Teams each team plays a team designated by a draw e Round Robin Teams each team plays every other team e Multiple Teams set up much like a pairs event Swiss and Round Robin can be Scratch or Handicap while Multiple Teams can only be Scratch As set up and scoring for each of these is very similar detailed instructions are provided for Swiss Pairs only while instructions for the other types of teams highlight the unique options and differences NEW from Scorer 11 1 1 54 Player names are captured for each by round so the C points will get allocated to the team members who are actually playing the round 5 1 Swiss Teams NOTE Scorer does not currently cater for 3 way swiss team matches 5 1 1 Setup the Event in the Calendar Enter the event in the calendar for each night the teams are running g This makes it easier to access the event on the night ea O T stos 0 ane am a i q Os Oc Amount ee 40 O Morning O Afternoon Evening Swiss events can be s
4. _139 30 09 2010 _ NZ Intermediate Pairs _Thi Morning Tourne 137 30 09 2010 NZ Teams Qualifying Th Morning Tourne __137 29 09 2010 NZ Teams Qualifying __ We Morning Tourne 137 28 09 2010 NZ Teams Qualifying Tue Morning Tourne 138 27 09 2010 BTF Teams Mol Morning Tourne 135 25 09 2010 NZ Pairs Qualifying Sat Evening Tourne 147 2509 2010 _ NZ Pairs Qualifying A Sat Evening__ Club 147 25 09 2010 NZ Pairs Qualifying 4 Sat Afternoon Club 135 25109 2010 nz Pairs Qualifying Sat Afternoon Tourne i 142 24 09 2010 NZ Intermediate Teams Fri Evening Tourne 130 24 09 2010 Open IP 2010 FINAL Fri Evening Tourne 131 24 09 2010 Women IP 2010 FINAL Fri Evening Tourne 132 24 09 2010 Seniors IP 2010 FINAL Fri Evening Tourne i 133 24 09 2010 _ Intermediate IP 2010 FINAL Fri Evening Tourne 134 24 09 2010 Youth IP 2010 FINAL Fri Evening Tourne 127 24 09 2010 Seniors IP Teams 2010 Fri Morning Tourne 128 24 09 2010 Intermediate IP Teams 2010 Fri Morning Tourne y ES S DE The important facts about the event are e How many sessions in the event e How many sessions is a player pair required to play in order to qualify e How many sessions will count can they drop bad scores e How many substitutes are allowed not relevant in Individual Ladders e Can they have the same partner for individual ladders Tournament It is possible to set some sessions as compulsory so that playe
5. 11 12 2010 167 7 12 2010 151 6 12 2010 163 1 12 2010 167 30 11 2010 159 30 11 2010 162 30 11 2010 163 24 11 2010 162 23 11 2010 167 23 11 2010 159 23 11 2010 165 22 11 2010 164 20 11 2010 163 17 11 2010 160 16 11 2010 161 16 11 2010 162 16 11 2010 158 16 11 2010 159 16 11 2010 157 16 11 2010 155 9 11 2010 156 9 11 2010 153 8 11 2010 154 8 11 2010 Closing Dey Tuesday Christmas Pars Test Whatever pars Tuesday Christmas Pars team My Wamba Team 1234567890 pars My Wambot Team 1234567890 Tuesday Christmas Pars team Oorfield Pars Piss test pars tez 2 swiss new prs My Wanda Team 1234567890 testing 1 team teams polr 1 Tri Teams Test Casual Swiss Or aw Test Swiss Pars OD OD Ob Ob Ob OD Cb Ob Ob OD OD OD OLD Ob Ob Ob Ob Tourney OD Capsa OD Ob 4o 4o 40 40 400 40 40_ o soc RRRR RRRRFR The red buttons at the bottom left of the screen allows the user to add events delete sessions or whole events and modify sessions or whole events ADD EVENT EVENT The event should be given a meaningful name but should not have special characters such ee I as etc as these are not valid in event Event Details EventID New event Event names Competition Type Club O Tournament Casual pena 24 clea NB s Time This name is used to create a directory in the file TE TE Omoming Oaftemoon Evening system under the
6. Comp Sub Cor 4 345201 LARIRAINE BRUC When all 4 players are entered for a table the _ _ __ ___ ENTER key on the keyboard may be pressed again OR click on the ENTER button on screen to insert the names of the players into the grid on the right of the screen MARTIN OYSTON 69542 subir Gor Player ComPleyer Comp Sub Corsub Jf a player name is to be changed at a particular 69642 PAT O NEILL 28711 ALEC WEA 35 table then just type in the table number in the Table Number field then click in the Number field for the player After changing the player number pressing the ENTER key to get the correct player then click the Enter button to ensure the entry is changed in the right pane Substitutes can be entered using the Sub For button The players at the table Sub for should be entered in the main window The player for whom they are substituting needs to be entered in the Sub For window E When the sub has been entered just click on OK and you return to the Player Entry Screen 8682 For Howell movements the HOWELL PAIR a number not the table number is entered Ensure that the players are correctly entered i against the pair numbers When all player names have been entered click on the RETURN button to return to the Sections screen or click on the ENTER SCORES button to start entering scores manually 4 3 Entering Scores The Enter Scores screen has
7. The VPs are calculated and show in the boxes The handicap VPs are also calculated if the event is set up as Handicap Teams NOTE It is possible for the Director to adjust the VP s directly due to infractions Click on the Enter button or press enter on your keyboard again and the results are entered The matches will disappear from the list of matches yet to be scored and your cursor will be placed in the entry box ready to type in another team number When all results are entered click on the Return button to go back to the Sections screen If all results have been entered then the Scored column will contain Y and you will be moved to the next round ready to do the draw Be careful not to click RESULTS while you are on the incorrect round 5 1 6 Publish the Results Print and Web Publishing Check that you are on the correct round and click on the Calc Results a button This will show the IMP and VP results from each match NOTE If you are using the Team Number for Table then players can ignore the Table column A This should be printed and posted for the players Landscape format is recommended Page 1 shows the results for that round and Page 2 shows the placings as at the end of that round 44 The Full results overall ranking shows Vps Total of Vps to the end of this round Swiss Total of Vps of all opponents played Net Imps Net of all IMPs gained IMPs lost If the e
8. XML folder configured in the options screen Display Results in IF the Browser session has been started this will progressively display results in Browser the Browser window as teams finish This only works when Polling is on and electronic scoring is in use Director Adjustments This allows the Director to make adjustments to results in the database including assigning IMP results for a board The IMP result entered here is a BALANCED result i e if Team 1 gets 3 then their opponents will get 3 See Enter Scores to assign a NON BALANCING adjustment ENTERING SCORES MANUALLY Type in a team number in the top entry box under Team Number and press the enter key on your keyboard The opposing team number and both team names will be filled in and the cursor moved to where the IMPs are to be entered Type in the IMPs for the first team and press the enter key on your keyboard The cursor moves to the IMP entry box for the second team NOTE It is now possible to enter a non balancing adjustment The most common of these is with a fouled board where 3IMPS is awarded to each side so if the original result for the match with the fouled board removed as not played was 17 IMPS 15IMPS then the first team would be scored as if the result was 20IMPS 15 IMPS and the second team would be scored as if the result had been 17IMPS 18IMPS Type in the IMPs scored by the second team and press the enter key on your keyboard
9. access 3 When JohnA signs in he can edit the calendar and do the scoring He is able to add events When AliceB logs in she is not able to edit the calendar The only Calendar option available is View She can then use the NEXT button to move to the event and score This means that AliceB will never accidentally add an event to the Calendar 3 11 Help 3 11 1 Help This screen references a filed called NZCBA Scoring Help rtf in the root directory of Scorer You may change this for local suggestions to help your users with day to day situations at the club Changes may be made to the file NZCBA Scoring Help rtf in the root of where Scorer is installed 3 11 2 BridgeNZ Wiki This has been temporarily re directed to the BridgeNZ web site while the wiki is being rebuilt 30 3 11 3 Documents cimas N olaa This brings up document which are useful to users It will display Dcouments movie avi and pdf files The files are stored in the Documents Description E folder under the Scorer root directory Werder Highlight a file in the list and click on Play then either Ma e oe How To Enter simple event in Calendar The pdf file will open in acrobat reader OR How To Score Adjustment percent How To Set up howell session lt pe A How To Set up Swiss Teams The avi file will play in your default media player How To Sucks session Even Table How To Simple session Odd T able How To Subscription Notices login Movements
10. as to not conflict with NZCBA assigned numbers and their number name and grade information saved for future sessions Or club can enter new members here who do not yet have a NZB registered player number The player numbers entered in this screen will be available on electronic scoring devices 3 10 4 VP Scale This produces a report of the continuous VP scale for the number of boards selected The systedm currently holds scales for 4 boards up to 48 boards If a higher number of boards is reqiuired this can be easily and quickly effected by BridgeNZ 3 10 5 Password Levels This allows the club to set up the security levels that can limit what functions users who have been provided with login access can perform There are three tabs Main Menu Calendar and Admin For each part of the system the functions are listed with Scoring Access Level and Admin Access Level restrictions The lower the numbers in these columns the easier it 1s to access Example The Scoring level access to Ladders Tournament Entries and Next has been set to 5 while the access level to Enter Event and Save event to disk is set to 9 In the Main Menu Scoring Level access to View Calendar is set to 5 and a level of 9 has been assigned to Edit Calendar User JohnA has Scoring level access 9 and admin level access O in the membership database and user AliceB has scoring level access 6 and admin level
11. here are used in the lookup but they may be manually over written in the section setup 3 9 5 Handicap The type of handicapping to be used and parameters for the Automatic Handicaps are set in this screen Itis recommended that Handicaps be set to Automatic For Automatic Handicaps the first number says if a player s average score is above they end up with a negative handicap their score will be reduced from the gross score and if a player s average score is BELOW this figure their handicap will be positive their score will be increased from the gross score The second figure stops handicaps from being too spread and scales the amount of the handicap so the 0 75 in the screen shown means if the average score differed from the first number by 10 then the handicap would be 10 x 75 7 5 Automatic Handicaps are calculated only on request see menu item Housekeeping Edit Automatic Handicaps and manual adjustments can be made for exceptions after they have been calculated Manual handicaps are stored in a file and are cleared at the start of each new year 3 9 6 Windows A Haden Fer Mania This allows the user to set the colour scheme for some of the Scorer screens Chub Ponts FTP Options Confirm Scoring Window pira tamicin E Confirm Scoring Window options allow the user to set the use of the space bar to confirm scores as well as use the mouse to click on the Yes button and or u
12. i e 1 v 2 and 11 v 12 74 Clear All Sets Training on creating custom team movements is available by arrangement standard rates apply 25 3 9 Options If changes are made in the Options menu click either SAVE or CANCEL Some options do not take effect unless Scorer is closed and restarted These options are those that write information to the scorer ini text file which is read on startup SAVE This is required to save some information to the start up files CANCEL This cancels changes made in the Options screens EXCEPT membership screen When membership types are added they take effect immediately 3 9 1 Club Details The details on this screen are used for club administration notices such as subscription notices There must be an email address entered if you wish to email C Points to NZ Bridge This is used as the From Address in the email 3 9 2 Membership Details This is where invoice information is entered All levy and subscription amounts entered should be inclusive of GST EE Club Options amea Levies are the NZ Bridge Levies which include a regional levy This is a a Scoring Options Windows _ _ Club Points n Old Membership FTP Options _ set by NZ Bridge each year and will need to be updated as notice is Cb Dt ene _ Harden Fie Menbectip Deiat received from NZ Bridge Inc ji Discount if paid by 1 1 2011 Subscription Expires Usually end of financial year Discount date To a
13. in any of the three lists mentioned a screen will come up asking for the player information By default it will be added to the non members list but there is an option to add to the NZB list Adding this must NOT be done unless the user is ABSOLUTELY certain that they have the correct number Click CANCEL to return to the Name Entry screen or OK to enter the player in the required list Search for a player number Tab from the Number field to the Name field 34329 prera Type in the first few letters of the player s Surname then press ENTER on the keyboard sn o A list of names will appear at the bottom of the left Search For bruc search er Non member min i pane and the appropriate name can be selected by Comp No No First Names Names Last Name lCubName Grade s a 3194 LARRAINE BRUCE WAIMATE BRIDGE CLUB intermediate double clicking on that name 21044 MARY BRUCE ASHBURTON BRIDGE CLUB Junior 22631 PAM BRUCE OTAKI BRIDGE CLUB Junior Intermediate si DEE e jar ence can E Note that the sort and filter options are available on all nsee puc MANE BRIDGE Cave meaa fields in this search window 18981 RUTH BRUCKER WELLINGTON BRIDGE CLUE Intermediate i If all this fails then a number can be typed in tab to the Name field type in a name then tab to the next field This is VERY bad practice and should only be used on rare occasions Cor Player Comp Player
14. no cost for scorer related issues Support is also offered for previous versions of Scorer and for other technical issues including system structure and setup and use of Windows and other applications This work is chargeable at reasonable rates Each version of Scorer requires a new licence key obtained from BridgeNZ which is based on your club name and club number If Club Name or club number are changed you will NOT be able to access your programme without a new license key If you have feedback that is constructive then please email to martino bridgenz co nz If you are reporting a suspected bug then please ensure that you have written down all the steps involved in producing the situation Disclaimer The diagrams screen shots in this document may reflect an earlier version of Scorer They have only been updated where this was necessary to document a new feature or function Martin Oyston Director BridgeNZ 2004 Limited 1 Introduction 1 1 New Features in Successive Versions of Scorer Scorer Il e Ability to modify sessions in the calendar e Ability to change event type in the calendar eg from non handicap to handicap event e Ability to create a custom teams movement with even or odd numbers of tables for Round Robin Teams e Improved Swiss draw for Swiss Teams and Swiss Pairs e Ability to put player names in by round for teams so C points get allocated to those who play the round e Separate carry ov
15. same RF unit Option to directly publish an analysis of Teams results This uses a service that will NOT work on Windows XP it requires VISTA or higher Table instruction files for pairs movements can be pdf files which can make for nicer presentation and be easier to print Scorer 14 1 2 Adoption of WBF continuous VP scales as mandated by NZ Bridge Non balancing IMP adjustments for teams Option to directly publish an analysis of Swiss Pairs results This uses a service that will NOT work on Windows XP it requires VISTA or higher Bug fixed in calculation reporting for handicaps and points ladders Backup now makes copy of FULL DATABASE and CURRENT YEAR S FILES Recommended that full backup be done at end of each year Enhanced Tournament Entries functions Restoration and enhancement of Special Ladders functions eg inclusion of an option to allow players to play with the same partner more than once in an event with an individual ladder type New sort and filter options are available when selecting events for Special Ladders Neuburg scoring Creating User Logon IDs and Security Levels The Membership table in the database stores the names of all your club members These are entered through the Club Administration screens discussed later Each of these members has a User Name associated with them For each member there is the ability to assign User Login Name Password Scoring Security Level 1 9 Admin Securit
16. the S003 Heal Salyer Faire Wes The View Calculations allows you to sort by any of the fields on y Epica ll screen save the data in several formats and print You can not 1 20 03 2009 gt Sian saver Mandi change the data on this screen are in a J007 p00 stacknan Saiver Wendi 6 0872 raisers Mea i Silver Pairs West 1370072 an Blomeyer Cup ETF Taam 20708 3 2309 Blomeyer Cup BIF Team 29 08 2005 ac oneyer Cup DIF Team 3 09 reg te Zalver Fa Syn mee me ie me 24 09 2009 Cean ikas 11042007 Port a a al a al El a I Calculating EL 12 if Prev EET Gare El 3 BEER SGERT RETEST EE i i 3 3 3 Edit Automatic Handicaps This allows you to fine tune the handicaps that have anomalies If a player has not played much and only played with weak players yet they are of a much higher standard you may wish to increase the handicap Also if a player only plays occasionally on a certain session then you may wish to allocate them a handicap for that session To edit the automatic handicap for a player Find the computer number for the player by a typing it in the Computer Number Search and clicking Go or Although this screen is very useful changes to some players handicaps are inevitable and the Reports menu will be the best way of producing suitable printouts for players b by clicking on the line in the top pane which contains the member s name Change the handicaps in the appropriate box in th
17. the second and 24 in the third The weightings used were 0 28 0 22 and 0 24 respectively Once these have been set there are options to Show session results and use Average score or Total score to present the result Results are rounded to 2 decimal places by default but more may be shown by altering the Decimal places Once these are set click on Run Ladder to run the Ladder The confirmation window will come up saying the Ladder is done Click OK The screen below shows the results from an Individual Ladder To see the players who played but did not qualify click on the Non Qualifiers radio button From here the ladder may be printed or saved NOTE the session results are shown here If session results are not required untick the Show session results tick box on the Ladders screen and run the Ladder again Click RETURN to go back to the Ladders screen PFrorspad LL 505 A m m i CEA a E TA AAA ET p i ES ae in Hal x id PPC ht Ft CPE 2 SH SS e x ir g ki ip En ih Ai en fi Be ki i L i PES sd ea s E Pr sal om Bh Hi PE 33 ot cf oe 43 om 22 The XML button on the Ladders Screen will send the Ladder information to the web site under a Ladders directory Standard pairs and individual ladders are available from the web in conjunction with the Pairs results If not all sessions in the event have been played then for the purposes of the
18. the FULL DATABASE and the CURRENT YEAR S FILES Because it only backups the current years files it is strongly recommended that you backup Refresh New Folder Ga d dataparti v Je D Cptsi after the last session of the year and save this in a safe place de Mon 07 Feb 2011 12 25 be Mon 07 Feb 2011 12 43 Je Mon 07 Feb 2011 12 44 de Richmond e Sat 05 Feb 2011 15 08 e Scoreri1 24 de Tauranga de Thu 17 Feb 2011 08 33 Timaru de Tue 15 Feb 2011 16 18 The backup must be done on the machine that has the Scorer SQL database on it In the left pane of the backup window you can choose the location to save the backup file This can be on the C drive default is NZB Scorer Backup or on an external flash drive It is good paractice to save your backup file to an external location such as Fropbox of similar Backup Options 4 Main Database Board Move CommonDB Reports XML Save database backup to C NZB Scorer Database Backup non database files to Location D TEst Data F Shutdown computer on completion Document Directories When you start the Backup programme Scorer will close This is to ensure integrity of the backup If the Shut down computer on completion tick box is ticked this will shut down the computer after backup unless other programmes are running that will stop the shutdown When the user double cl
19. three parts Left is the scoring grid Centre the control navigation buttons and hints Right a list of boards yet to be started for scoring When a score sheet 1s available type the board number into the Board Number box at the top of the screen and press the ENTER key on the keyboard This will move the cursor to the top line of the score sheet When entering scores Do NOT type the final 0 in the number e g for 120 gt type 12 ENTER for 2400 gt type 240 ENTER for 50 gt type 5 ENTER Type the number and press Enter The score is entered and the cursor moves down a line For an E W score EITHER Put a in front of the number e g 30 Enter for 300 E W OR Type in the number then press the key instead of Enter 1 e 30 See examples following N S No EW NIS ENTER gt N SNoEMW NS EM Te 2 3 2 3 200 N S No EA V N iS EJW 200 3 k ENTER J 2 3 300 _ nw minus AAA AA 4 7 300 F W ON Pressing the ENTER key repeats the score from the line above PHANTOM line will be skipped over if you use ENTER NOTE It is possible to over ride the Phantom and enter a score on that line This is because it is possible for players to get to the wrong table and play boards that they would not normally play A board that is PASSED IN has a score of 0 Any board NOT PLAYED should have the field left BLANK To do this use the ar
20. 13 DA A Black 18 To setup in the primary room click the Main button and then click Start Remote Server to start BridgePad Enter the BridgePad options for pairs and select the channel the primary room is using When users start their bridgepads they will need to enter their section number Here the primary room is section A 1 In the BridgePad screen you will be able to see a display layout for the A and B sections with the appropriate number of tables for each section but you will only see data populating the A section as the game progresses Upload Results ay Section Display A Y _ Connected to 8 TableNo 9 Table 2No 6 TableNo 7 Table To setup in the secondary room click the Ghost tab The button called Start Remote Server is now called Sart Remote Ghost Click this to start BridgePad Enter the BrdigePad options for Pairs and set a different channel to the one being used in the primary room ate ghost pairs When users start their bridgepads they will need to enter theur section number Here the secondary room is section B 2 a In the BridgePad screen you will be able to see a ES Y display layout for the A and B sections with the appropriate number of tables for each section but you A Sacto will only see data populating the B section as the game progresses Upload names and results from each room separately on each of the two PCs If you want to review the names or result
21. 3 7 1 Ladder When Pairs or Individual events are run Scorer combines scores to form a Ladder in order to get a winner for the event By default Scorer can run a Ladder for all sessions of one event occurring in one calendar year NOTE it is important that all sessions of the event have the same EventID see Adding sessions to an existing Event above To run the standard Ladder for an event go to any Calendar screen by using one of the following processes 1 From the main menu a Choose Calendar View Edit Printouts OR b Choose Ladders Ladder 2 From the Sections screen in a Pairs event Ensure that the desired event is highlighted in the Calendar Event pane and click on the Ladders button The Ladders screen will now be displayed Click the BACK button on screen December 2010 Be Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 2 3 A se 6 Er d g 10 11 12 44 44 15 A aaa s 19 a 21 22 23 24 25 nr 17 12 2010 E Show calendar dates This day All 139 30 09 2010 nz Intermediate Pairs Th Afternoon Tourne 140 30 09 2010 _ Congress Multiple Teams The Afternoon Tourne 141 30 09 2010 NZ Seniors Pairs Thu Afternoon Tourne 141 30 09 2010 NZ Seniors Pairs i Thu Morning Tourne 140 30 09 2010 Congress Multiple Teams Tht Morning Tourne
22. 6 Tournaments NAME _TE_Player Alpha List Pairs Alpha list of entries _TE_Player Alpha List with grade Information on ranking and home club and club PAIRS _TE_Player Alpha List with grade Information on ranking but not home club PAIRS Sewes S Tne OO 8 7 Other reports NAME Description ClubPlayerList Select Club Lists all the registered pleayers from a selected club includes associate members
23. E AAA e eee Eee AA CUSI vice ce eee Admit P M Fat PM Pat Nell E Martin E 3 2 1 1 Sorting Columns A H y Surname When you click on one of the field headings with the mouse the records are automatically sorted by that field If you click again on the same heading 1t sorts them in the opposite order 3 2 1 2 Filters When you put the mouse over a heading you will see a small arrow appear at the right end of the field Click on that arrow and you get a filter box This allows you to select only specific entries AID Custom is View Custom View This option is particularly useful if for example you only want to see Un financial members or maybe only Junior players If you tick any of the boxes then only those entries will display The action may be cancelled by going to the filter box again and click on All When a filter is set there is notice of it at the bottom left of the grid The filter may also be cancelled by clicking on the X next to the filter description More complex filters may be added using the custom options but that is beyond the scope of this document 3 2 2 Add Edit Members bottom tabs This screen allows you to add members edit details of a member or delete the member El Club Membership Print Save As Reports You pan currently filter on surname this IS Account View Address View Custom View case sensitive but there is no gene
24. NZ Bridge SCORER Documentation The current version of Scorer is Scorer 14 Copyright BridgeNZ December 2013 Table of Contents e CEO MNase ewes vee ete ee csc eee ee ence stented sececaeans ee nevcnaeeceaenscatecsnaeueasnciaseestecueeds 3 1 o E lerhes este nes ieleer ses iern flpatree ests sera eee 4 L New Features m Successive Versions Of ICO ait cinta een 4 1 2 Creating User Logon IDs and Security Levels union ri riada nas aceon addons 5 2 HOGUINIO SCOGII EEEE eE eaS ESSA 6 3 SCOlrer MENU FUNCHONS sasssa ANE ESES aA AS DANASA AA 7 I Monu yt IC LUNG AAA e AA A a 7 32 CDA AO dea 8 Dur USE A ll 12 E A o II II Sates N PEA II cect E EE 16 eos Gale ndara ei a aie oem 17 SHOX O A A A a nate Gi tea bhe ae taeda Dalen bea ta Geman td eaay 20 I A is tise Sacto geen O A A e eae aoa Rae wea 21 O A A do od 24 A 26 SL EX as 29 A E oa tesa eet es 30 4 Pals Events SCONO iaa 33 dal Seme UME YL MUN It ce Code te a cs Peete gana ae Cole aa 33 Ae Entero Player Names oasis 35 Bo A A de 36 O OEA UME Satine Sere eo etna ninea oer megane ansesesone 37 eo Cre MCT AUINO Ine SUING sn sida 37 4 6 Other Functions on the Scoring cCTE N occoooccncoccnonocnnoncnnoncnnnoncnnnnncnnoncnnonncnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnns 38 A A O II II E EES 39 5 Teams EVENS CO Nui 40 Dell SS MS lee iio Ra 40 2 ROOM RODA a a a a e o e O Naa 45 A ELE A A eee ae 47 6 SWISS Pairs EVO Scola 48 TA nn ese E suse nsec meceneeeme tes 49 6 GUSTO MOVem
25. OU ARE IN THE CORRECT ROUND You can now click on the Enter Scores button The top panel is to enter scores manually while the bottom panel Remote Scoring is for electronic scoring users There is now the ability to enter non balancing IMP adjustments This may happen for example with a fouled board where each side should be assigned 2 or 3 IMPS depending on the number of boards in play Enter the IMPS for team and the result for each team is calculated with VPs not adding to 20 ELECTRONIC SCORING USERS Upload Results This uploads match results from the electronic scoring database to Scorer Once results are uploaded the Results process is automatically run bringing up the Results screen Print Round Sheets This prints the match sheets for each team a complete set in numerical order of teams If the Include Datums box is ticked then the datums and each pair s IMPs against the datum will be printed on each sheet 43 Print one match This asks for a team number and prints the match sheet for that team Max boards per page Limits the number of boards printed on a page Poll Results This starts a window that shows the teams and number of boards to play at each table It is sorted by number of boards to play If this is running matches are automatically processed as they finish and matches completed are written to an XML file and can be automatically displayed by using a web browser The results file is stored in the
26. Scoring directory Generally all NZB IL Frequency sessions in one event should have the same event Pairs Oteams O Individual E e a Weekly Scoring Method Weeks aa Sistas Swiss Datum Datum Swiss Cross Imp COMPETITION TYPE Normally Club or O Cross Imp Ladder Type Tournament Casual events can be run but no C 7 6 Pairs Individual points allocated or sent and may be of a format that precludes the allocation of C points e g playing all slam hands pre set Click the radio 3 button of the appropriate type and set Amount Points accordingly O Handicap Individual O Handicap Pairs POINTS This is for NZB Masterpoints If A or B is selected the Competition Type automatically moves to Tournament and the NZB ID field is activated Amount Points If Points is set to C then leave at 40 default for standard club sessions where 20 boards are in play 20 for club sessions where 11 19 boards are in play and O for sessions of 1 10 boards in play or sessions not eligible for C points such as sessions replaying deals played in sessions during the year If Points is set to A or B then enter the appropriate value for the Tournament e g 5 for 5A tournament NZB ID will be a field assigned by NZ Bridge to identify tournament sessions This ID will at some agreed point with NZ Bridge be sent with Masterpoint files to identify tournament sessions and tie together the qualifying an
27. co nz 28 3 AS 9 FTP Options FE club Options toldos Club Details Handicap iles Membership Details Scoring Options Club Points OldMembership FTP Options This allows the user to set the ftp site to which results will be sent The ar results from pairs sessions can be automatically sent to the site in XML format along with the hand records For hand records to be sent a txt or edr file must be available and linked to the session from the sections screen Details for the BridgeNZ web result hosting site will be provided by BridgeNZ 3 10 Extra 3 10 1 System Info This provides information about the PC that is running Scorer its available storage and the screen resolution that has been set 3 10 2 Edit NZB Player Information This screen alows the user to download information about NZ Bridge registerd players Player information is supplied to BridgeNZ on a regular basis Please check www bridgenz co nz for the date of the latest update The information includes home club as well as rating point and masterpoint information When downloaded Scorer is able to use the information in a variety of reports BE Eae NZE Perforation On the Edit NZB Player Information window select Import por Play 2 Player Information 1214 Ea FOX ABBOTT CHRISTCHURCH BRIDGE CLUB ntermediate c6 9 1244 BETTY ABBOTT CHRISTCHURCH BRIDGE CLUB ediate Choos e the option From Web site Edit NZB Player Information
28. cratch or handicap wem mee O Pairs Teams O Individual Obaiy ei Once the event is in the calendar select the line of the first night and A a tds E click the NEXT button This will bring up the Sections menu Ofeand Rob Team Type 172 31 12 2010 BridgeNz Swiss Teams Fri lEvening Club faoc Teams Swiss Bear Chien 171 25 12 2010 BridgeN2 Pairs Sat Afternoon Club 40C 172 24 12 2010 BridgeNZ Swiss Teams Fri Evening Club 40C 151 20 12 2010 Test Whatever Evenin BridgeNZ Pairs 171 18 12 2010 17 12 2010 BridgeNZ Swiss Teams Fri Evenin 010 ES 5 1 2 Setup the Section Before setting up the following information is required e Number of teams playing Ste o 1376 ose HEIT time Evening tw Presidents Cup Teams e Number of rounds that will be played Event details Players gt e Number of boards per match me e The VP scale you would like to use No of Teams this defaults to be equal to the No of Rounds number of boards per match Boards per match This information is filled out in the Event VPS E Details then click ENTER A Away Prefix View Pair gt A The Home Prefix and Away Prefix can be used if you wish to use the same table oe numbers for Home and Away teams so R and W could be used to indicate Red and White table numbers for the Home and Away teams The event is now set up with a grid indicating which rounds hav
29. creens for that session Instructions for these are covered later in this document 3 6 2 Tournament Entries This function allows clubs to pre enter player names for any Tournament that has been set up in the calendar and provides immediate feedback on the number of active entries at E cert rag any point l eee ea The events flagged as Tournaments show in the top left pane along with the current total of active entries The current entries player names show in the right pane You can Add Edit or delete entries There is a quick key Ctrl E to add a new entry If an entry is deleted this does not change the entry numbers of other entrants Entry numbers keep increasing but the total of all entries less those that have been deleted shows in the top left pane The Back Fill button is used to fill the gaps where entries have been deleted Entry numbers are maintained except for those at the end who are moved back to fill spaces A report prints automatically for the moved entry numbers so there is a record of the changes allowing th user to idvise contestants if the entry numbers are being used for a purpose There are a number of tournament reports accessible through the Reports menu item including a ranked list of entries in order of rating points using NZB player information for the purpose of aiding seeding If the event is not displayed in the top left pane it probably has not been set up as a Tournament 3 7 Ladders
30. d final rounds for the same event EVENT TYPE This is Teams Pairs or Individual Note that this Individual is where each player plays with a different partner each round of one session SCORING METHOD For Pairs scoring may be done using Matchpoint basis most common by comparison with the average score Datum and allocating IMP s or by comparison with every other table and allocating IMPs Cross Imp If the scoring is Swiss Datum or Swiss Cross Imp then the format is such that each pair s position for a round will be based on their position in the field at the end of the previous round 18 For Teams Swiss Round Robin or Multiple Teams may be selected SPECIAL NOTE Swiss Pairs Match Point scoring has been added to the menu but implementation is yet to be completed at the publication of this manual LADDER TYPE This is important for clubs Please ensure you choose Handicap Pairs if you wish to have both raw scores and handicap scores Handicap scores will NOT be available if you just use Pairs The Individual here is when your players play with a different partner each session and the winner is the individual player with the highest combined score Once again if you want to use handicaps ensure you choose Handicap Individual Scorer now has a flag to allow more than one session with the same partner for individual ladders Use this at the club s discretion START DATE This can be selected from a calendar which shows when yo
31. d in the draw for subsequent rounds of the current event 5 1 8 RESULTS SAVING to other formats On pressing Calc Results the user 1s presented with the Report Print Options dialogue box By clicking Setup the results can be exported in Excel or CSV format Piyes gt o Session Result Brother MFC J6910DW Printer EntenGoors gt Upload from Server a Print Cancel Print Setup 2 Draw J gt e Report Print Options Export to CSV Export to Excel Report Session Result Printer Brother MFC J6910DW Printer View Setup Cancel Print All Pa Adjustments 45 5 2 Round Robin Teams These are set up in a similar way to Swiss Teams in the calendar but select the Round Robin button Once the event is in the calendar select the line of the first night and click the NEXT button This will bring up the Sections menu The event can be set up with multiple Round Robin matches This 1s useful 1f you have say 6 teams and you would like to play 10 rounds you can play a double round robin In this format each team plays each other team twice In the Event details pane the box marked X asks how many round robins you will do For this example we will do 2 rounds with 6 teams When you type 6 in the number of teams and Event details press Enter on the keyboard the No of Rounds automatically changes to 10 Press Enter on the keyboard then type in the number of b
32. e been Drawn and Scored If using Handicaps the Handicaps are in IMPs and are added to the IMPs of the team before the VPs are calculated 40 5 1 3 Enter team names and Players Click the Players button to enter the team members If using electronic scoring you need only enter the Team Number and Name as player details will be captured from the BridgePads when the round starts Team No This is the number that Scorer will use for the team throughout the event for draws and results Auto Number This indicates that you would like the next number to come up automatically once you have clicked on the ENTER button Seed This indicates your seeding for the team H cap The H cap field only appears if you have set up Handicap Teams This is the Handicap in IMPs for the team This will be added to their score before calculating the Handicap VPs Team Name Free text If Auto Team Name is ticked this field is populated with the full name of the first player entered Captain Free text If Auto Captain Name box is ticked this field 1s populated with the full name of the first player entered Bye This is a Bye Opponents drawn against a bye get the round off and score 12 VPs Number and Player Put in the number and press Enter on the keyboard This will automatically populate the name field if the name is in the Member list or NZB Master file If not there you may type in a number tab to the Name fie
33. e deals would need to be played in each section It is not required that you score across sections and each section may be scored separately Mitchell Movement EVEN Number of Tables If there are no feed ins then a skip move may be used With the skip move EW skip one table after half the boards are played Movement No of Tables 10 With a Relay the top table shares boards with table 1 and there is a Mitchel Boardsperset 2 resting set of boards between the middle two tables With this Howel Barometer NoofBoards 20 gt Custom movements movement the resting boards can be in order use Boards in order Yes or they can be the top set of boards Use Boards in order No Relay Are the boards in order With extra board sets there must always be an even number of extra ie m board sets the skip move is not available just the relay no share required There must be one set of boards between the middle two tables and the remainder of the board sets feed in at the top table There is a switch move when half the total number of feed in sets Y Add Section are left to be played Howell Barometer Movement TO When a Howell or Barometer is required Hop i OS S BoardMove gt i Search bei the Load File button appears The ESE niiki O Howell Barometer movements for these and for the custom movements are stored in files usually under the BoardMo
34. e lower pane Click the square button below OK 3 3 4 Edit Manual Handicaps This brings up a grid with all allocated manual handicaps You may change these in this grid and save them Copy amp paste facilities are now available here so if you have entered manual handicaps for say Saturday morning you can copy and paste into Saturday afternoon to use he same handicaps for the second session of a handicap tournament You could also copy and paste into and from Excel if you wish to use this for calculation purposes 3 3 5 Club Points Ladder C Points Ladder These both work in the same way as the Automatic Handicap using the same grid just looking for and calculating slightly different information The printouts from these are generally fine for member use as they are an accurate record of happenings 13 3 3 6 Individual Results This now has the same grid but allows you to search for one member and see what sessions they played who they played with what their score was their placing C points and Club points 3 3 7 All Results This prints a report with all members number of sessions played average score number of different partners club points and C points Ho of Sorsom dare SL Chin Pones Foii men E 13 H 15 59 api 1 3 a G8 116 a 3 This is a useful report for club administrators 3 3 8 Backup or Restore BACKUP The backup function allows you to make a copy of
35. e number on the BridgePad units before they are placed on the tables Uploading names for the primary room and the secondary room can be done from the PC in the primary room by clicking the MAIN and GHOST tabs in turn and then clicking Upload Names When you Upload Resultsin the promary room the update includes any results that have come in from the secondary room 50 7 Custom Movements Custom movements are used for two main purposes 1 To allow you to set up a repository of special movements to play specific numbers of boards in a certain way 2 To score a movement that has gone wrong and you know which pairs played each board set We deal here primarily with point 1 above From the Advanced menu choose Custom Movements b Fill in the movement details You can number the pairs in a Howell movement starting at 1 and ending at twice the number of tables You can NOT number them for example as 1 to 10 and 101 to 110 c Save the file preferably in the BoardMove directory If your movement requires table instructions as with an expanded Howell then please create an rtf file with the table instructions Give 1t the same filename as the movement file and save it in the same directory as the movement file This will be available when the Howell or individual custom movements are loaded If you are using the movement with BridgePads then please ensure that the correct round numbers are put in with each table for each board
36. early payment discount and one without the discount If some different amount is paid enter the amount in the Other box and click Paid Other When receipts have accumulated you can calculate the recceipts over a date range and do your banking or analysis from that The Calculate Receipts button will give you a list of payments between given dates When the payment buttons are clicked the receipt number will be allocated and the receipt number automatically incremented NOTE The recommended procedure for setting the receipt number is at the start of the process when you make members un financial to change the number in the box that says Set Last Receipt Number to YY000 e g 13000 for 2013 then click Set Last Receipt Number This will then allocate all your receipts to 13001 13002 then the next year start at 14000 This format will give you a quick count on how many payments have been made When your members do not owe you money the system automatically sets them to Financial and the rectangle shows green The reports button allows you to run your reports Sorts and filters are also available from the grid SUBSCRIPTION PROCESS The following is a recommended procedure for Subscription setting and receipting Run the report to check that Membership Types are defined Assign member types to all members with no type assigned Set the NZB Levy and your subscriptions discounts and subscript
37. een has New and Modify buttons on it Deouments Description Basic Movements FR4 6 Programmer anual en FA4 6 User anual ern How To Add Members How To Enter Players amp Sub How To Enter Scores Pairs How To Enter simple event in Calendar How To Score Adjustment percent How To Set up howell session How To Setup Swiss Teams How To Simple session Even Table How To Simple session Odd Table How To Subscription Notices Movements for Bridge J_ Atkinson Reports are stored in the Reports folder underNZB Scorer They are divided into sub folders for ease of access The sub folders are totally user configurable however the only sub folder which which is REQUIRED and must never be deleted or changed is the System folder Reports are able to be created or modified by a competent user Training 1s available on requesst standard charges and full manuals for the report writer Fast Reports are in the Documents folder If members write a report which they believe will be useful to other clubs they may submit this to Bridge NZ to be included in the next update or send the fr3 report file directly to another user Within Scorer reports are available from the Reports menu item or from the Reports button now on a number of screens Clicking this opens the Reports Window with a list of all the available reports Click on a report to highlight it To preview and or print the report either highlight the re
38. ent kere renee Pepenee dci rer reer earrresrrer renter encore 49 9 EISTO SUPPER REDOINS umicirnassicari ire 52 SIGN ROY Sle HO ig E tet sent we E O ta O mens gaan oe 52 D N 32 oJ mes OaE a A A E O o ARER e o 53 A A e 53 A O RR 53 A DA A A E A oe een toncnesuetontiees 53 dl VEINS TE PON tibios 54 Background Scorer 1s written to cope with Tournament Scoring Club Scoring and simple Club administration To this extent there are facilities to run virtually any movement for Pairs fundamental Round Robin Swiss Teams Multiple Teams and Individual movements There are two basic handicap facilities available so that clubs may choose to do Manual or Automatic handicaps Scorer s administration module is now manages Subscriptions Receipting Mail Labels Membership Lists and other membership related club requirements for your Club Scorer 11 represented a significant enhancement on previous versions and functional and stability enhancements have continued to the most recent version Scorer 14 BridgeNZ has been and will continue to work with Clubs to ensure that we maintain our world class programme BridgeNZ offers support for the application in the form of email and telephone support and online connection to your computer using Team Viewer Documentation is in this manual and in the new Help file structure Clubs are able to insert their own documentation to be available to their users Support for users at the current level will be at
39. ents to be available then these should be written into an rtf file with the same name as you give the movement This should be stored in the same directory that the movement file is stored 3 8 2 Create Howell Create Howell allows for creation of Howell or Barometer movements where the number of rounds is the same as the number of moving pairs Each pair follows the next lower number pair and the stationary pairs sit in the same direction throughout the session 24 3 8 3 Custom Teams Movement Custom Teams Movements allows the set up of teams events in a specific way this is not for swiss but for set E custom Teams Movement Be x draws It is particularly suitable for constructing sete eeu _ oe Ji m v ayer seeds movements for specific draws for tournaments especially m 2 1f the movements are for 5 7 or 9 teams and involve a three way match The resulting movement may be loaded in from the teams Draw screen If using a three way match there must be an even number of rounds AIMAR The numbers in the custom draw represent the team SEEDING numbers not the team number and the teams may be re seeded before a second cycle of the draw x Trifector By default when team names are entered the seeding value is the team number In most contexts this is of no consequence but for RR teams 1t may be relevant to ensure that the top seeds and bottom seeds play against each other in the final round
40. er to adjustments this allows draws to include C O but not penalties e NZ Bridge membership information can be updated from Web download as required e Additional club administration reports available e Reports available for club members showing rating points masterpoints and official gradings e Tournament entries have reports to sort entries by average rating points to assist with seeding e Additional custom movements provided e XML file produced from Pairs Sessions e Option to directly ftp the XML file to a website for publish and analysis of pairs results With the release of Scorer 11 we see a move away from BDE and Paradox and adoption of Microsoft SQL Server as the database beneath Scorer This provides a more stable and portable platform and enables data from scoring and administration to be accessed and cross referenced more easily The Teams portion of the software has undergone almost a complete re write in order to allow for trifector matches and custom teams draws and the Pairs results are able to be published easily to the web The information about players from NZ Bridge is now imported in full allowing for reporting on Master Points and gradings for your club members and reporting on average rating points for teams pairs entering tournaments to assist in seeding This import is now done from within the programme and users are no longer expected to download and save files for this Version 11 retains all the features of pr
41. es number of boards per set and the total number of boards Scorer will display a warning if an incorrect number of feed ins is suggested Movement aries o Once a valid movement is inserted the Add Section button appears 9 Mitchell El Boards perset 2 g nowel Bammer NoofBoards z2 Scorer will bring up a window asking is fm a C Custom movements y A 55 the missing pair NS O Is there a phantom pair If Yes then for a Mitchell it will ask the ty E table number then if the missing pair 1S What is the Phantom Table number NS k For a Howell Scorer will just ask what the Howell number is for the missing Y Add Section patt O Is the Missing Pair N S A Please Wait screen will appear while Scorer adds the information to a scoring database When the section has been added its details appear in the right pane If the section is incorrect such as an extra pair arrive or you find you have 2 phantoms so lose a table you can remove the section by clicking on the line in the right pane and then clicking on the Delete Section button at the top right Letter Room No Tables No Brds da A i 7 28 When the section is deleted a message asks Do you want to 33 retain the names for this section Generally this will be NO More sections can be added and scoring across sections is permitted providing the same number of boards in play in each section For this to be valid of course the sam
42. ets 4 5 Generating Results There are 2 results buttons on the Set Up Section screen The right button Old Stlye produces the traditional results as Lane described below The left button Nuberg adjusts match points ee dc to a common top in the case tht boards are not played the same number of times It also allows for scoring across sections which are not playing the same number of boards eg one section 26 boards one section 24 boards The box XML on Results enables full personal score sheets to be produced when ticked 37 Old Style Results Results are displayed for NS together with Match Points and percentages Clicking the EW radio button will show a similar grid for EW scores Blew Seorer wed Alentar There is a drop down box showing the section this is used to display individual sections OR overall section results 1 e combines all NS and all EW for comparison If a Handicap event has been scored then clicking on the Handicap radio button will show the Handicap result There are three tick boxes at the bottom right Include Pair Numbers Shows the pair numbers for the pairs in each section Include Computer Numbers Includes the computer number for each player Print on one page Prints both NS and EW scores on one page At right is the resulting Print with all three boxes are ticked The file generation is fixed width format in the current release Returning to the RESULTS screen Re
43. for Bridge J_Atkinson new movements W The media files show examples of how things are done but may not be present on some systems due to size constraints at the time of install 3 11 4 Remote Support BridgeNZ Online Suppor pee AV Ose bridgenz This allows for one off support by BridgeNZ To enable this clubs allow BridgeNZ to run TeamViewer as a service on their computer If a computer is turned on TeamViewer allows BridgeNZ to Connect remotely to the user s computer and work on it directly OR b Run demonstration web sessions that uses can connect to on the internet for demonstration or training purposes c Transfer files to and from the user s computer for update or analysis Team Viewer may be run in two modes asa stand alone session from the user s computer from Scorer by accessing Help Remote Support in the menu this starts C NZB Scorer BridgeNZ_Support exe ateam Viewer host may be set up on the user s computer This host programme starts whenever the computer starts and allows secure access to the computer This access is only used on request TeamViewer allows BridgeNZ to Connect remotely to the user s computer and work on it directly Run demonstration web sessions that users can connect to on the internet for demonstration or training purposes Transfer files to and from the user s computer for update or analysis Process for S
44. geNZ can alter to your specifications for a small charge Any size label can be accommodated When Subscriptions are paid enter the payments on the Membership Payments screen Receipt numbers are now allocated automatically NOTE Players now remain unfinancial until full payment has been made 11 3 3 House Keeping 3 3 1 C Points to NZ Bridge This allows you to send your club and tournament masterpoints to NZ Bridge either by email or writing them to disk floppy CD USB and sending by snail mail To email the files 1t requires an email address in the club details in the options screen as well as an email program such as thunderbird free or Windows Mail The default email address secretary nzbridge co nz is configurable When the Calculate button is clicked any event that has not been flagged in the Calendar as having been sent previously is processed The processing is shown in the viewing pane at right As event sessions are processed they are flagged in the calendar with the disk number that they have been sent on For Teams events a file is now created for each round so that substitutes no longer require manual changes It is esential that for each round of the teams that the names are inserted in the Draw screen For those without electronic scoring there is an option to Default All which reads the names from the team players file and you can make substitutes as required If there are no names in for the round
45. hen nothing need be entered in this field If you enter a User Login Name then you should also enter Admin and Scoring Password Levels and a password for the user to give them appropriate access to the menus required A user cannot change any password including their own unless they have admin privileges to this screen The highest access level is 9 and other access levels can be customised see later in this document When you have completed adding the Member s details then click on the Tick under Save in the lower panel PLEASE ensure that you have some members with User Login Names and Passwords AND level 9 access before removing the ADMIN user To change a member s details select the member change the detail required in the bottom panel then click the tick under Save Computer Numbers Please enter computer numbers allocated by BZ Bridge Inc to your new members records It is recommended that you do NOT enter members without computer numbers Notes This is a free text field that allows you to enter any relevant notes These may include any special medical conditions Contact person Next of kin etc Save As and Print allow you to save and print in a limited fashion The print option on this screen is being phased out and replaced by the reports available under the Reports menu item SPECIAL NOTE For the Print button on this screen to work a directory named Temp must be created under the Sco
46. ich an event is being held in two rooms e g due to space constraints and where there is no radio communication between the two rooms Each room therefore has its own radio receiver that is collecting data operating on different channels The principle is that the event and sessions are created on one computer then a ghost copy of the Electronic device e g BridgePad database is made at the click of a button and this ghost database is used to collect some of the data whilst the primary database is used to collect the remainder In order for Ghosting to operate the Ghosting option in the Options Scoring Options screen must be ticked PAIRS For purpsoes of this example we will have 18 tables 26 boards playing in the primary room and 13 tables 26 boards playing in the secondary room Create both sections on one computer it does not matter what order these are done in In this example section A is playing in the primary room section B in the secondary room Once the sections are created click the Create Ghost button which sets up two tabs MAIN and GHOST Behind the scenes each of these tabs relate to a main and a ghost bws database that collects the scoring data for each section ate ghost pairs Letter Room Section No Ti a _ 8 B Gold 13 HA A Black 18 Create Database Create Ghost Database Delete Database s O N Demonstrate ghost pairs y Letter Room Section No Tia JB B Gold
47. ick s on the folder the path is put in the field on the right of the screen Optionally another directory may be created When the backup is started it will create a directory named with the current date and time of the start of the backup This leaves no doubt about when the backup was done There is a choice of directories to optionally back up If the Main Database is selected then the Scoring directory is automatically backed up as it is vital that the database and the Scoring directory be kept synchronised The backup can be restored with the Restore option to the same directories or different location but best to do another backup immediately before trying a restore in case someone else has added information that you are unaware of If there is a problem with your system or you have found an interesting situation that you would like examined the backup can be made on a USB memory stick and sent to BridgeNZ for analysis Your system can be run directly from the memory stick and it means that what is being examined is exactly what is on your system Note If you do this then please send a full description of the issues along with the backup RESTORE Restore Please note that the restore may be run from within Scorer or separately from another copy of sBackup If started from within Scorer then Scorer will be closed and ion bee the sBackup application will be started Board Move Restore Options
48. ighted on the right pane and click Remove Event When all sessions are entered click on NEXT do en View Esla le SHD Ladder Bedqgeh2 Speca Ledde L i i Erari Type Now the Special Ladders l Pars bordea screnwill display and the ladder j vepre a Handicap Peirs Handicap Indices can be run or modified from as a pe Hie Many Sessions 6 here al Ep et Ho Reqored la usd E era a Mo of Sessions Count 4 ap eT TA Special ladders will not eens pega T G Su AE currently produce an XML file for web results OK Cancel Click on Close to return to the Admin screen g SA E n a apera Pus Ladder epua COAT a poe A toe El d Total eoma 23 3 7 3 Run Special Ladder Enter the the General Details This screen shows all the Special Ladders set up in the club s system and allows the user to run or modify a ladder 3 8 Advanced 3 8 1 Custom Movements Custom Movements allows the user to enter any movement with the exception of a movement which reuires the same boars to be played be different pairs at the same table in different rounds this is the problem in trying to create a 3 table Howell Setting up Mitchell Movements such as Web movements is relatively simple Each board set has a grid like a score sheet associated with it This sheet will be associated with all boards in that set e g If using 3 boards per set set 1 will contain boards 1 2 a
49. ion amp Discount dates in the Options 10 Screen Membership Details tab Save Please remember that 1f your subs include the NZB Levy then deduct the levy for the amount of the Club Subscription Go to Club Administration Click the button Make All Unfinancial Now all your members are made Unfinancial NOTE This process may take a little time Set the Last Receipt Number to YY000 where Y Y is the year e g 13000 for 2013 If any members have already made payments toward their subscription then enter these payments now You can change the payment date to receipt these against the correct date if you wish Now you can run your Subscription Notices Click the Reports button Click on Subscription Notice Click on Preview The notices are designed to print on A5 paper Most printers will manage this You can now print your subscription notices These will be in alphabetical order of Surname and will not include any record with no surname e g Admin They will also not be printed for any member of class X This has been reserved for members who have lapsed and you wish to follow up in other ways NOTE If you would like a report to print two invoices per page that can be arranged or most printers these days will have settings to print 2 per page when printing A5 to A4 If you wish to generate Labels for posting out a report is available You may customise that report yourselves or Brid
50. ior versions with some enhancements and modifications The use of SQL Server allows for easier and better reporting and has the first move toward storing the scoring data in the database with the teams data now completely database driven Scorer 12 e Re working of the administration screens The three screens are now in a tabbed format e tis now easier to manage the membership database and all the sorting and filtering functions are available e The user is able to customise the field layout on screen and have this save away e There is the ability to automatically assign receipt numbers and also to print receipts for member payments e Receipt history is now saved so you can track this if required e Reports can be sorted into sub folders for easy reference e Teams draw has two options traditional top down or matching top bottom teams on equal VP e Support for the latest BridgePad update Support for Bridge Scorer Multiple Teams available with BridgePads Scorer 13 Bridge Scorer support is enhanced Additional improvements and enhancement to administration functions Buttons such as teams draws Pairs personal scores member receipts are tied to reports which the club can customise Backup and restore processes have been enhanced Restore function is now working correctly Ghosting function optional developed to cater for the the situation where an event is played in two rooms and these rooms are not able to reach the
51. is folder Common DB Folder S CommonDB n Deals Folde CADeak Movements Folder This is where the Howell and custom movements are placed for delivery Root Folder This is used for backup purposes XML Folder This is where XML files are placed ready to be Caca 26 sent to the web or displayed on screen Common DB Folder This is used to share electronic data for multiple events Deals Folder This sets the default location that will open when searching for dealing files to attach to a session 3 9 4 Rooms Sections Generally clubs will only require one room and 2 sections but larger clubs or tournaments may require several rooms and National Congress requires up to 14 sections While Room and Section are technically free text fields and can be named as you require itis strongly recommended that Rooms be a single letter A to Z When a single letter is used it is shown on the initialisation screen of electronic scoring devices reducing the risk that players enter an incorrect section e a miojojolz 3 gt f Es BridgePads can be pre set to sections of a single letter A to L and Bridge Scorers may be pre set to single letters A to Z there are other options here but not relevant Sections are usually given a colour This is historical and was initially used to reflect the colour of the score sheets associated with that section The letters and words entered
52. ld type in a name tab to the next field 5 6 Person Team When this is ticked you can add fifth and sixth team members Print Options These determine what is printed when the Print button is clicked To start your teams competition it is recommended that you have the players entered but at a minimum you should have team names entered Click on the Sections button to return to the Teams Section screen For teams events many clubs set up to this point in advance of the event Ensure that the Round Number is set to the round you are about to start 41 5 1 4 Perform the Draw and Set up for the Round Draw nm J o Automatic Draw gt Manual Edit draw gt gt Custom Draw gt gt View Print amp o le e _ Tes E Use Team No for Table Use Common Database Section Starting Board Number Create Remote Database Remove Section from Database Start Remote Server Upload Names Create Remote Database Upload Names Remove Section 3 From Database View Draw y Click on the Draw button to perform the draw For the first round if you have done a manual draw you can click the Manual Edit draw button and fill in the draw If you just want a random draw then click on the Automatic draw button Create Ghost Database Start Remote Server When the Automatic Draw is used a window should pop up saying the draw is good Enter Names Each team always si
53. llow discount for early payment Grade For your local grades Note that these are NOT the NZB Ranking or Grading but allow the club to have its own internal grading Membership Type This is now unlimited and clubs are free to add different types with appropriate subscriptions and discounts Please note at the time of this manual NZB levies are only payable at one club per player This is generally taken as the player s Home Club The subscription that the members pay is NZB Levy Club subscription if Pay Levy box is ticked and Subscription only of the Pay Levy bx is not ticked If a club wishes to accept subscription amounts from players joining part way through a year shey should set up a new member type with the appropriate subscription amount and change the member type for these players at the start of the next financial year 3 9 3 Files These specify the file locations that Scorer will use for its various processes a gt Scores Folder This has a sub folder for each year and event MECA E E folders under those This MUST be kept in sync with the database and the backup ensures that this file system is a Pe sl backed up at the same time as the Database Database Folder S Database ss Movement Folder SABosrdHove Database Folder This is where the OLD database files were Root Folder SA held it is now intended to move the SQL data storage files XML Folder SAXMLA am to th
54. ms The event should be entered in the Calendar with one entry for each session of the Multiple Teams Multiple Teams does not have a Handicap option With Swiss Teams and RR Teams each entry in the calendar takes you to the same screen to continue with the same event This is not so with Multiple teams because the format is more like a pairs session When you click Next in the calendar screen you are taken to the Sections screen This looks a lot like the Pairs Section screen and ho of Tables is used in much the same way Boards per set Add a section using the drop down menu from the Section No of Boards Currently Scorer only supports Odd numbers of tables for Multiple Teams BridgePads expect players to move UP 2 tables and boards to move UP table When you enter the number of tables and the number of boards per table scorer uses the only movement it knows and assigns the total number of boards Remember that you will never play the first round so you can remove one round from your timing Having entered the numbers click the Add Section button Enter the players as you would in Pairs the Players screen looks the same and has the same functionality Enter the scores as you would in Pairs This screen also has the same options and functionality Results show the 4 players in the team the total IMPs for the team and the total C points gained for the evening NOTE C Points are available for each match scored in the r
55. nd 3 set 2 will contain boards 4 5 and 6 set 3 will contain boards if Ceara sets 7 8 and 9 and so forth The No column on the left represents the table number at which this set of boards is played NS is the NS pair that will play these boards and EW the EW pair Pair numbers must start at 1 and be sequential so use of numbers such as 101 102 103 etc for EW pairs is NOT permitted It is recommended that the round number column be completed to make the movement available for electronic scoring devices Completing this column is not currently mandatory If Auto Number NS is ticked then every set will be numbered with NS starting at the top at table 1 with pair 1 NOTE Copy and paste is now enabled in the grids so one column or part of a column may be copied from one board to the next or from another application such as Excel to the grid In a Howell type movement one winner then the pairs will all have different pair numbers In this situation ensure you untick the Auto Number NS Pairs option and give each of the pairs it s own number Any movement where either a Pairs change direction for some rounds OR b There is an arrow switch where the boards change compass direction for some rounds is a one winner movement For more details please see the documentation directory in Scorer for New Movements and Movements for Bridge J_Atkinson NOTE If you require table instructions for your movem
56. not enter a table number greater than 99 The initial xx tables are set to section A tables 1 to xx then the next table is set to section B table 1 Use Remote Scoring Allows for the use of electronic scoring It is recommended that this be ticked even 1f electronic scoring is not being used as some of the options that appear are useful Bridge Pad and Bridge Scorer These buttons select which remote scoring device is being used Itis important that the corrret program is started with these please seek advise from BridgeNZ if altering these settings The Bridge Scorer option includes BridgeTab Use Login Name Allows Login Name field to be used rather then the Known As field for logging in to Scorer This means for example two members known as John can use different logins and passwords and be assigned different privileges It is STRONGLY recommended that you have this option ticked Ghosting This feature allows for an underlying electronic scoring database to be replicated and run independently It means that the same event may be run using two computers and two receivers with the names and results being uploaded to the one event CSV This is for future use and should not be used currently Bridge NZ TASP This enables a subscription service offered by BridgeNZ for publishing teams and swiss pairs round by round results to the web This service requires the installation of a SQL database Examples may be seen at www tasp bridgenz
57. now be viewed displayed with your browser by clicking the View Draw in Browser button If there is an incorrect set up e g you typed in the wrong starting board and created the database then this button will allow you to remove the section from the database After removing the section make your corrections and Create Remote Database again This is to start the BridgePad Server ready to receive information from the BridgePads This will populate this player data for the specific round from electronic scoring units If no names have been entered for the team members this will populate the first 4 member names in the Players table 42 Enter Names If electronic scoring devices are not used then names for each round can be defaulted from the entered players list Substitutes should be entered manually are entered manually here for each round so materpoints can be assigned If elecctronic scoring devices are used this screen will be populated after Upload Names have been clicked After names have been uploaded they should be checked here to enter any visitor names or correct any that were entered incorrectly on the scoring devices Names on this screen are used for assigning masterpoints and if there are no names here then the round will not be included when C points are sent to NZ Bridge Dealing File This box allows the user to attach the dealing file txt or EDR for each round for use with Web publishing if the club subsc
58. oards per match If your number of boards per match does not match a standard VP scale then the default 1s to drop to the next lower scale You may manually adjust this VP scale to use 1f you wish After filling in this information click the Enter button on screen Players gt a Split Event Enter Scores gt Calc Results o O View Team gt The setup is similar to those for Swiss in terms of adding players entering scores and calculating results A key difference is in the Draw x bo u pm The Draw screen for RR teams looks the same as for the Swiss but if the Automatic draw 1s done all rounds for that Round Robin are done The Draw is based on the seeding entered in he player entry screen and cycles the teams This is arranged such that the top seeds and bottom seeds meet in the final round The default automatic draw does not balance Home and Away matches It is possible to manually reverse certain pairings in the draw to balance this if you choose NOTE If you are not worried about Home and Away choices then it really makes no difference CUSTOM TEAMS DRAW In the Custom Movements there is now an option to create a custom Teams Draw This uses seeding rather than Team number so you can automatically re seed after the first Round Robin and finish up with your appropriate seeds playing one another in the final round The second Round Robin automatically balances the Home amp Away so if Team X
59. ome players will play NS for some boards and EW for others mit Mitchell type movements e g Web movements where generally NS remain seated and EW move so there are two distinct winners Players never move from NS to EW or EW to NS NOTE there are some movements where NS move but always play the NS hands These are still Mitchell type movements 34 brm Barometer type movements where the same boards are played by the whole room each round 4 2 Entering Player Names Once the section s have been entered select a section in the right pane and click on the Players button Type in a table number to bring up the grid to enter the players Ticking the Tables in Order tick box will ensure that when you complete one table then the next table in sequence will be ready to enter without typing the table number Entering Players Type in the NZB Number for the player and press the ENTER key on the keyboard If the number is in the Club Members OR in the NZB Player list OR in the Non Members list the name will appear and the cursor will move to the next number field NOTE Do NOT click on the ENTER button on screen Do NOT TAB between fields For PHANTOM type 0 then press the ENTER key on the keyboard Both members of that pair will be set to PHANTOM NOTE If a player is entered with O as their number then the PAIR will NOT show in the results 84820 E MARTIN OYSTON If the number is not found
60. on it The next chapter will give a brief description of what each menu is for 3 Scorer Menu Functions 3 1 Menu Structure Sub Level Menu Items Access to the tabbed member screens C Points to NZ Bridge Calculate Handicaps TOP Level Menu Item Exit Club Admin Housekeeping Reports Calendar Scorer Ladders Advanced Options Extra Help About Edit Automatic Handicaps Edit Manual Handicaps Club Point Ladder C Point Ladder Individual Results All Results Backup or Restore Data Purge Events Aaccess to a list of pre written administrative reports and Tournament entry reports View Edit Printout Score Section Tournament Entries Ladders Set Up Special Ladder Run Special Ladder Custom Movements Create Howell Customs Teams Movement Various settings for the configuration and appearance of Scorer System Info Edit NZB Player File Edit Non Member File VP Scale Password Levels Help BridgeNZ Wiki Documents Remote Support Displays the current version of the Scorer software User Manual Section 3 4 MN ON a e sal oe amp GAE N WwW N OO 3 10 3 11 3 2 Club Administration Club Membership ere N N en 69542 Pat gt Y Tabs to move to Field headings with different views sort amp filter options Columns in each tab can be moved to show in the sequence the user chooses QQ ID rssrarmenoss Ao MC MAA E CE EEC a
61. options determines how Percentage 1 Fixed number Fed Nube i we many results are discarded from top amp bottom to get rid of O Percentage Min number ax Number extraneous results Alternative Swiss Draw Change Swiss Team Sections After 90 tables Alternative Swiss Draw 1If this is ticked the draw for Swiss imo W ES ee Pairs events is made so that if pairs have equal VP ranking CABDS BidgeScore BSContiolexe csv then the top ranking pair on Swiss points plays the lowest iaia e ranking pair on Swiss points etc If this is not ticked the standard draw method whereby the top ranked pair plays the second reanked pair etc Compulsary play score can be dropped y Use WBF Continuous YP y Use Login Name Y Ghosting 7 Bridge NZ TASP V Use old XML Compulsory play scores can be dropped If this is not ticked then any session of an event that is marked as compulsory must be played by anyone qualifying for the event Use WBF Continuous VP If this is ticked then teams and Swiss Pairs events will use the 2013 WBF official continuous scales which has been manded by NZB for club and tournament events It also enables a box in Teams scoring to allocate non balancing adjustments If this is not ticked a standard discrete scale is used based around a 10VP draw and 20VP maximum points Change Swiss Team Section after tables This is used if there are a very large number of teams to overcome the restriction that with BridgePad you can
62. ores fr3 file If these details are not desired then the report personal_scores_noplace is copied and renamed personal_scores fr3 8 2 Admin NAME Subscription Notices AS subscription notice this can be customised for your club Rename your custom notice Unfinancial Members Prints a list of members that are flagged as Unfinancial 8 3 Calendar There are two calendar reports one in Alphabetic order of event and the other in Cronological order 8 4 Pairs NAME _Pairs_PSC Prints the pairs personal score cards from a selected historic session Pairs results with grades Prints results of a session with local grades Slams bid and made Llists slam hands from a session with players who bid and made them 8 5 Teams NAME Check Pairs This checks that the pairs playing in a session have entered their names in the correct direction at the table they are playing at More importantly it will pick up if the team is playing at the wrong table Player Imp Cross Tab Generates a list of imps board against the datum for each pair in teams The Teams Match Sheets must be run to produce this data RR Draw for team captain Generates a draw for the RR event Team Handicap Results Select event and round and get handicap results Team Pair Datums player alpha List datums in alpha order order Team Pair Datums List datums in order of best to worst Teams Match Sheet Print teams match sheets by selecting event and round 8
63. ound and you play 6 matches in a 7 table Multiple Teams session 47 6 Swiss Pairs Events Scoring The Scorer functions for Swiss Pairs are very silimar to those for teams so those functions will not be covered here 6 1 1 Pair Numbering There must be an even number of pairs in a Swiss Pairs event If a stand by pair has been organised to fill any phantom then there is no need to to pre register players this is normally done to ensure an even number Seat the players then have them move randomly so that they mix up i e players don t get to choose their first round opponents Usually this is done by saying something like EW pairs should move 1 row to the west Those on the west wall move to the other side of the room Set the first round draw with the NS pair as the table number and EW pair as Number of pairs Table Number For example if you have 8 tables then NS are 1 to 8 and EW at table will be 9 8 1 EW at table 2 will be 10 8 2 and so on The players should be told that this is their pair number for the whole event regardless of where they sit from here on in If using electronic scoring when you upload the names for the first round all the pairs will be assigned For subsequent rounds with the same players you can turn off the name entry 6 1 2 RESULTS SAVING to other formats On pressing Calc Results the user is presented with the Report Print Options dialogue box By clicking Set
64. port name and click Preview or double click on the report name E Preview 3BGaAasAinala o lal anug gt Ma Phone List of BridgeNZ Mobile Brown Mona 3446054 Cromarty Barbara 3444304 Buckley Ann 3487044 Culling Graeme 3442237 Surname Known As Home Phone Surname Known As Home Phone Mobile b2Gmygma l com Bull Barbara 3442222 Cvitanovich John 3444711 Butler Ann 3478383 Cvitanovich Shirley 3480016 Byers Patti 3455907 cw Cadogan Isabel 3444948 Cameron Vaughan 3436894 p l 0 D S EXPO Carter Beverley 3436323 Cash Ellen 3487202 CSV file Page lof Gif image E mail New will allow users to i Text file create custom reports i HTML file Excel table OLE Excel table XML Modify will start the report designer Users should NOT modify existing PDF file reports unless they have a Open Document Spreadsheet backup of all the report Open Document Text files AND they have the technical skills to use the report writing tools Documentation Complete documentation of the product is included in the Help documentation FR4 6 BridgeNZ will quote for custom report writing and or training in report writing This puts a new level of reporting into Scorer and any information from the calendar membership database or settings can now be reported on in a nice manner Teams Swi
65. ral search Cem kem es Toners e fos pere ne Fr sso facility 34329 Martin To ADD a new member click the under New in the bottom panel A new blank line will open up and you can enter details in the BOTTOM section of the SCT een Add Edit Members Payments The email address will take up to 60 characters The Gender is a drop down that A will only be M or F should you require a me ee N other types please advise Grade and Membership Type are lookups from those lo SSS ee O ze aa Et ose entered in the Options screen Financial Status is U Unfinancial F Financial or D Debenture Holder Click the tick under Save then go the the Payments tab and set the member as unfinancial by typing O zero in the Other box unticking the Print receipt item and clicking Pay other NOTE 1 Please ensure that ALL members have a Membership Type when added or they will not have subscription notices generated for them NOTE2 If you have part year subscriptions for players joining part way through the year OR for new members from lessons theyn you should set up another Member Type in the OPTIONS screen with the appropriate charges At the end of the financial year you can then change the member type before producing new accounts User Login Name can be set to anything and is used for the user to access Scorer If the user is not doing Scoring or Administration for the club t
66. rer root directory There is now a REPORTS button on screen to access member information in a nicely presented manner You can add or modify reports to your needs or you can request reports to be written specifically to your needs Work on custom reports is chargeable but very reasonable 3 2 3 Payments View bottom tabs Add Edit Members Payments Make all unfinancial 10 12 2012 v Calculate Receipts From Monday 10 December 2012 v lal To Monday 10 December 2012 Cash Total Clear Close This allows you to Make all members unfinancial as done at the end of the financial year See the status of a member the payment box is Green for members that are financial and Red for those members that have outstanding balances Debenture holders will show with a Yellow background Receipt payments if the Print Receipt tickbox is ticked a receipt will be printed using a pre determined report ReceiptPayment in the system reports which the club can change It the Print Receipt box is unticked there will be no physical receipt printed but the receipt numbers and amounts will be accumulated in the database The Date and Receipt Number fields show the date and receipt number that will be applied to the payment when the Paid button is pressed On rare occasions you may wish to manually change these to enter an historic receipt There are two automatic payment buttons one with
67. ribes to this service from BridgeNZ Note that if the dealing file contains boards for more than one round eg it comprises boards for all the rounds to be played on one night the web display will only show the boards relating to the appropriate round The print options allow you to print the draw in three ways Table order This is now done from reports and may be customised from the system Table order reports if desired O Tearn Pair order Team Pair order This is now done from reports and may be customised from the O Line Up Sheet system reports if desired Lineup Sheets These are used for the Home team to write in their player positions and the Away team can then choose who they put at the tables with those players When the View Print button 1s clicked a new report print option is used are The Set up option allows the user to export directly to Excel or a CSV file or you Pinter Brother MFC SOAOCDW Printer can preview the document or print directly when the document is previewed Yew Soup canos using View the printer settings may be adjusted to for example print multiple copies Once the draw is published and electronic scoring server started click on the Return button to go back to the Sections screen The format of the printed draw may be changed by the knowledgeable user by editing the draw report 5 1 5 Scoring the Round Look at Round No BEFORE CLICKING ON ANY BUTTON AND BE SURE Y
68. row keys to move over the field OR click in the field of the next score to be entered with the mouse Error If an invalid board number is entered an error message will be displayed Press Escape to continue Invalid board number Press ESC to close the message window and then correct the number When all scores have been entered for a board a confirmation box will appear Depending on how your options are set you may be able to e Click on Yes with the mouse to accept e Press the Space Bar to accept if this is active in the Options setup e Press ENTER to accept if this is active in the Options setup When the boards are all entered click Back to Sections to go back to the Sections screen 4 4 Adjustments If the Director makes an adjustment to say NS 60 EW 50 on a board this n lt is done on the screen where the scores are being entered for that board To do this instead of entering scores for a board press A on the keyboard The adjustments window appears Type in the assigned percentages and click OK If the Director assigns a split score type A click on the Split Score radio button Fill in the scores assigned by the Director Click OK N S EAW N S EAWIN S EAW This last example leaves 2 scores on the 1 1 me nen score sheet Ls If there are any numbers in the Boards left to score window at the right of the screen then someone needs to go hunt for travelling score she
69. rs are ae ae to play that session to qualify This can be overridden in the Options setup If No Required to Qualify is set to the total number of sessions for the event then players must be present or have a valid substitute entered for each session of the event in order to qualify If No of Sessions Count is less than the total number of sessions then the highest total is used and lowest scores dropped Once these settings are entered click Save This currently saves the ladder rules to a file in the scoring folder for the event These settings will automatically come up for the Ladder on each session of this event The drop down menu at the top right of the page allows selection of Handicap Pairs the ladder type to run If the event has been set up as Handicap Dali ES p Individual Pairs for example ladders for both raw scores Pairs and Handicap Teams Handicap Pairs may be produced If the Ladder Type was set up as Backto the future Individual then Individual should be chosen from this menu to run the Ladder Each session of the event is shown and can be ticked as compulsory if required Also there is the opportunity to put weightings on sessions This is usually done if a different number of boards is played in each session The easiest method for this is to use the number of boards divided by 100 as the weighting e g Here there were 28 boards played in the first session 22 in
70. s in the separate rooms make sure you have clicked on the correct section first After the results have been uploaded you will be able to score scross sections as if both sections had been playing in the one physical room TEAMS For Swiss Teams the Create Ghost button is in the Draw screen Do the draw as normal enter the starting board number and Click Create Remote Database Then click Create Ghost Database When this button is used a Ghost tab is displayed to the right of the Main tab Create Ghost Database Start Remote To setup in the primary room first Server click the Main tab and then click Start Remote Server to start BridgePad Set the BridgePad options and channel and ask people in the main room to login to their BridgePad Check that all tables have logged in to the correct table numbers i e that no tables that you expect to be used in the secondary room have initiatlised To setup in the secondary room click the Ghost tab and then click Start Remote Server to start BridgePad Set the BridgePad options and set a different channel to that being used in the primary room You must ensure that the table numbers are entered correctly in both rooms as an incorrectly entered table number affects the data collected and it is difficult to correct on the night To ensure that tables get setup correctly in the secondary room it is recommended that the Director enter the tabl
71. s the files underneath more manageable ache ee Archiving will delete all calendar events upto the dale chosen and also When you select a year all files and events from that year and did all earlier years will be purged Purge to Year 28 ong The process recommended is e Make a backup aap P e Purge to the appropriate year e Check your calendar and do a spot check on events that you wanted to keep 15 3 4 Reports Reports 4 Reports Admin A Contact List FullMemberDetails i Handicap Member Programme Book Labels _ Member_by_Type Members Mail Label DL30 _ Members Mail Label L7159 Members Mail Label No Email Members Mail Label 2 NZB Player Info Phone List Subscription Notices 1 Unfinancial Members a Calendar 2 Calendar by event Alpha order Calendar by event Cron Order o de cal ray 4 y Pairs ie A _Pairs_PSC Hawera Picnic Handicaps LA swiss_psc 4 System 2 HandicapTeams Results L personal_scores personal_scores_ns ReceiptPayment L SwissPairsDraw J SwissPairsDrawTO The report is then run and presented in a preview window where it can be printed or exported to a large selection of formats The Print button brings up the printer dialog box allowing the user to print any specific page multiple pages or multiple copies of the document When finished with the preview click the Close button The Report menu scr
72. se the Enter button for this Allow Spacebar option 1s recommended Players Tables in order is a useful default when entering names from entry slips as your entry slips are usually in table order Scale X Y has been implemented to allow for the screens to be scaled to fit on some monitors If the setting is too low the scoring windows may be so small they cannot be seen 1f too large there may be buttons the user cannot access Default values are 600 x 600 If the user is having problems with screens they may need to experiment a bit to find values that work for the dsplay resolution of their specific monitor In general with the X scale the larger the number the wider the 27 window on screen and with the Y scale the smaller the number the larger the window on screen A setting of 800 x 600 seems to work well on a wide screen with a resolution of 1600 x 900 while 620 x 600 will work better on a more square screen with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 3 9 7 Club Points These are used solely within the club and this option is used to allocate points to players for their placings in club sessions 3 9 8 Scoring Options Font Size The default font size used by text files in Scorer Scoring Options Windows Club Points FTP Options FontSize 11 Identify Non Members Players who are not in the club member list will be identified in entry lists and results Identify non members a a eee Swiss amp Butler Pairs Top amp Tail
73. set 51 8 List of Supplied Reports This section lists the Scorer default report directories and the default reports contained therein Please be aware that users may change the directory structure other than the Reports System folder and may add their own reports or move reports to a different place in the folder structure Report files are found in the Reports directory onder the NZB Scorer root directory All report files have a suffix of fr3 Reports may be customised to suit the club either by a club member or by BridgeNZ on request Reports that are customised should be named accordingly to avoid being overwritten during updates 8 1 System Reports in this directory are assigned to buttons DO NOT REMOVE OR RENAME These reports are defined in the database and are fed parameters from Scorer They will not run proberly directly from the reports menu but the reports menu can be used to modify the layout Report Name 6 SwissPairsDrawTO Swiss Pairs Draw Table Order 8 TeamsDrawSwiss Teams Draw Team Order 9 TeamsDrawSwissByTable Teams Draw table Order Extra VPScales personal_scores full MA personal_scores_noplace A The last two personal score reports allow the user to decide if they want to include the pairs percentage and placing when printing full personal score sheets If full details are desired personal_scoress full fr3 is copied and renamed personal_scores fr3 having deleted the original personal_sc
74. sion not Swiss the screen looks like this El Set up sections rt SEEEN The Section Room and ES Letter Room Section No Tables No Bre PDA A Pink 10 20 Sections that were set up in the Options screens are used here Create Database Create Ghost Database Delete Database s The Section Room is a required field Each section should be a different A Section Room Pias Upload Names If electronic scoring is in use it is SSS EPA strongly recommended that the Section Room is set to a single letter for each section This will Bin then be the same as the Letter in the grid to the right and letter will be the section name for the scoring device 1 e For BridgePad BridgeScorer setting Section Room to B will make available Section B on the BridgePad BridgeScorer Nuberg Old Style A Section is required The drop down menu gives a picklist of sections It is best to use the Section Rooms and Sections that have been set up but not a requirement These are free text fields and if Bunny is typed in it will quite happily use Bunny as the section Once a section is entered the movement can be set up There is a choice of radio buttons on this screen Start new Session the default or Resume Session buttons are only relevant for BridgePads Mitchell Movement ODD Number of Tables Leave the Mitchell Radio button ticked put in the number of tabl
75. ss Pairs and Pairs data is now available for reporting also 16 3 5 Calendar Under the Calendar menu there are 3 options View Edit and Printouts To add an event to the calendar or modify an existing event the calendar must be accessed in Edit mode The Calendar is the central point or backbone of Scorer and it is essential that events are set up correctly to avoid problems later The calendar sort and filter options are active in all modes In each of the three ladder options there are 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen Ladders Tournament Entries and Next These buttons enable the user to run pairs events ladders accept tournament entries and set up sessions for pairs events These are further described in following sections 3 5 1 View This gives a read only view of the calendar the enable the user to search for events The default is This day lower left pane but this can be changed with the radio button to show all days if you wish The Calendar allows you to move by month and select specific days to choose the event that you require 3 5 2 Edit In Edit mode entries for future dates are white past dates are tinted This may not be obvious on some screens The calendar Edit screen by default shows Event ID Date Name of the Event Day of the Week Session Time Morning Afternoon or Evening Competition Type Masterpoint Value Event T
76. sults can be saved in a number of formats Personal Score Sheets can be printed These are printed 6 per page in order from NS 1 to the top NS pair number then EW 1 to the top EW pair number If electronic scoring is used then the check box for full results can be ticked and the score cards are printed with the contract lead and result on them as well as the score and opponent for each board This now uses reports and score sheets are printed 4 to a page Neuberg Results This is a fairer method of scoring when some boards have been played a different number of times to others This can happen for but not limited to the following e An artificial adjusted score has been awarded at one or more tables e The movement has been curtailed when there are feed ins e Two sections are playing different numbers of boards NOTE the Neuberging procedure does not handle fouled boards at the time of publication 4 6 Other Functions on the Scoring Screen E Edit pair numbers This is used for example when a board is played at the wrong table F allows for a board to be scored as two separate fields if it has been fouled at more than three tables Print All Boards will print out the score sheets with the scores on them If the results have been run then this printout will include Match Points Clear Board removes all the scores from the current board Carry Over allows entry of carry over from qualifying rounds to a final R Adjus
77. tand Alone support If the computer is connected to the internet a Arrange a time with BridgeNZ b Start Scorer c Start Team Viewer using Help Remote Support d Call BridgeNZ and give the ID for your connection BridgeNZ can now see and work on your computer to fix problems and explain what is happening Process for Team Viewer Host i i ST Viewer 410760325 If the Team Viewer Host is running the user can see the icon at the nd ad bottom right of the computer screen If the mouse is held over this icon R then the ID appears 31 A computer will retain the same ID so BridgeNZ can connect on request once an initial connection is set up SUPPORT SERVICES Some support services may be chargeable but BridgeNZ does not usually charge for connections relating to Scorer or BridgePad Bridge Scorer issues unless the issues are demonstrably caused by the user If requests are made for support which relates to computer setup or applications outside Scorer then work can be done at competative rates If the work required does not relate to Scorer then please ask for a quote For installation of Scorer there is a minimal charge and it is required that you have a Broadband internet connection and 2Gb or more of memory BridgeNZ owns and regularly updates a commercial licence for TeamViewer to ensure the best support for our clients 32 4 Pairs Events Scoring 4 1 Setting Up the Movement Starting a standard pairs ses
78. te anything CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF THE CALENDAR Calendar columns are now moveable columns may be dragged into different positions for clarity of information Namek vI DarfTime a Dy ruler The columns are sortable Click on a column heading and the a oe i marty nartv nairs Tue Fvenine calendar will sort by the field a a m lie Fvenin The columns are filterable Holding the mouse over the column heading an arrow appears at the right of the heading Sat Afternc Click on this arrow and the filter option appears Using this the data Mot m may be filtered for example to display only selected events FHES Double clicking on a line in the calendar does NOT take the user to the sections screen of the event If in Edit mode double clicking on a line in the calendar will bring up the event details window for the session of the event that was clicked _ Congress Multiple Teams O Congress Swiss Pairs C Darfield Pairs 3 5 3 Print Outs This now contains a reports button that opens the reports window in the reports Calendar directory There are two reports currently one to list events in alphabetical order and the other to list in chronological order 3 6 Scorer 3 6 1 Score Section Score Section opens the calendar window filtered to the current day only The user can select all days 1f desired When an entry is highlighted clicking NEXT will proceed to the section setup and scoring s
79. then the C Point file will not be sent for that round The next sequential number is used for the disk number and a file is created in the Cpts directory under Scorer s root directory If the email option is chosen then the files are zipped and attached to an email using your default MAPI client NOTE You MUST have an email address in your club information in Options or sending email will fail If Disk is chosen a browser window will appear asking where you want to place the files Browse to the disk and directory you want and click Save Regardless of which option is chosen a copy of the C Point files is stored under the CPts folder in Scorer and may be referenced for confirmation of what has been sent or re sent if required 3 3 2 Calculate Handicaps The left side of the screen allows you to enter a date range that you wish to use for handicap calculations The grid allows you to tick the session times that you wish to calculate handicaps for Thus you can do Tuesday evenings on odd months and Monday afternoons on even months without having any conflict When you have set the appropriate date range and ticked the sessions that you require click on the Calculate button You will see the sessions processing in the window at the right of the screen When the calculations have finished a window comes up confirming calculations have been completed You can click on View Calculations E PA 25 06 2 003 May Manoy Trophy des
80. tments allows entry of penalties unrelated to any specific board Xx Adjustments 38 If two or more sections are playing the same boards and the same number of boards click the Yes radio button in the Score Across Sections box to enable scoring across sections Export Session Creates a zip file of the data section details players and board results created relating to a session Import Session Recreates the session by opening a zip file created by the Export Session command The section name is apended with a prefix to identify where it has been imported from 4 7 XMLand the WEB Under the Results button is the XML button and beside this is the tick box to Upload XML file to FTP site This takes the results from all sections creates an XML file in the XML directory as configures in your options If the Upload is ticked then two scripts are created in Scorer s root directory FTPStart bat and FTPAction txt The batch file uses the FTP configuration in your Options to send the files to the FTP site renaming them in the form 999 20100930A 139 248 Event_Name_Pairs xml Club Number datetime EventID CalendarID Event Name xml All spaces are replaced with _ Attaching a dealing file will enable the makeable contracts to be provided as well as the results This file must be a text file suffix of txt or edr Most dealing software has an option to produce a text file of the hands
81. ts at the table of their team number regardless of their position in the field Using this you must IGNORE THE TABLE NUMBERS ALLOCATED BY SCORER If this is NOT ticked then the teams will sit at the HOME and AWAY tables allocated by Scorer This is used when multiple events are being run from one BridgePad receiver The database can be selected If the database does not exist it is created This is a letter to tell the BridgePad users which section they need to log in to If Use Team number for Table is NOT ticked and the Section is X the BridgePads will have XH for Home tables and XA for Away tables If it is not directly entered it will default to A NOTE If you try to use a section letter that is already in use you will be warned and the section will NOT be created NOTE Do NOT use section T this is reserved for Trifecta matches This is the first board in sequence for the set to be played Scorer knows how many boards per match from the Sections screen If you are playing more than one round in a session make sure you enter the correct starting board number This enters all the information required by the BridgePads about the movement for the BridgePads to be used When starting a round ensure that the Clear Data from Server box is ticked If restarting the server to correct or check results ensure this box is NOT ticked When the Database 1s created loaded an XML file is generated with the draw This may
82. u click on the arrow at the end of the field TIME Is the session time Morning Afternoon or Evening FREQUENCY This makes it easy to put in events that run for several weeks on one week day e g 3 Thursdays in a row Just set the start date set Frequency to Weekly then put the number of sessions in the box at the bottom left of the screen Once this screen is filled out click on the ENTER button and the event sessions will be added to the Calendar database Note that one line in the calendar is created for each session of the event These all have the same EVENTID and EVENT NAME but different dates or times M A or E If you have a 3 session event that skips a week then an easy way to add this is to add 4 sessions then delete one see later for deleting a session Alternatively you can now add the three sessions and change the date of the third session ADDING SESSIONS to an EXISTING EVENT Click on the event tin the calendar make sure you have used the Calendar Edit and click the Modify tool Click Add Sessions foci a Apply to all sessions OK Cancel Sessions may now be added using the start date calendar add Sessions E EventID 169 This data can be used to easily check if an event has been set up correctly sles ilo Start Date Friday J December 2010 Ey especially if it is expected to have handicaps Time Morning Afternoon O Evening If an event runs on specific dates d
83. up the results can be exported in E Excel or CSV format Session Result Brother MFC J6910DW Printer c ne A Print Cancel Print Setup Report Print Options Report Session Result Printer Brother MFC J6910DW Printer View Setup Cancel Export to CSV Export to Excel 6 1 3 Swiss Pairs Events and Masterpoints One key difference between Swiss Pairs and teams is that names for Swiss Pairs are only entered at the first round After that it is assumed the same players will be playing This assumption is relevant to the way master points are generated for NZBridge If different players will be playing e g if substitutes are allowed then master points should be sent off at the end of each round or collection of rounds with the same players eg after all rounds on one night On subsequent rounds the players list should be then altered in Scorer with any substitutes names and the master points generated for those rounds before changing players again If using electronic scoring and you capture player names for the first round of the night then any substitute player names will be entered Masterpoints can be sent to NZ bridge after the round s with those players but the names should be changed to remove the substitutes and reflect the default partnerships before the next set of rounds 48 Ghosting The Ghosting function has been developed to allow for the situation in wh
84. uring the year and is not easily added using the sessions in consecutive weeks then create the first session in the aay _ e oe calendar with FREQUENCY weekly and 1 for week Then add the other ca sessions to this event using the ADD SESSIONS function ox Soma MODIFYING AN EVENT The modify tool will allow you to change most properties for an event e g an event may now be changed from non handicap to handicap Also the event name can be changed but only before the first session is set up IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT ALL SESSIONS IN ONE EVENT HAVE THE SAME NAME The time of the event or of specific sessions may be changed There is now an option to allow C points to be re sent Once a session of an event has been set up for scoring the event name cannot be changed If ladder rules are created before the name of an event is changed then the ladder rules will need to be re created under the new event name It is recommended that the ladder rules be entered when you run the first session of the event DELETING A SESSION or AN EVENT DANGER this action cannot be undone 19 The delete tool is used to delete sessions from the calendar Highlight the session of the event to be deleted then click the delete button O You will then be presented with a wndow with three options Conf YES DELETE ENTIRE EVENT O ota Select cancel to cancel delete NO DELETE SESSION ONLY CE Ge CANCEL Don t dele
85. ve directory but this gt Custom movements You can now load a file EA e r i Bes eee Clicking on the Load File button opens a E ende l soue ztertu browser window in the BoardMove directory and by default B a RNA searches for hwl files These files store the standard Howell Y ta ronca Date modes 11827203 32 movements When the required movement is found the file is ee a File name v Barometer bar selected and Open clicked NOTE To see the Barometer files change from Howell to Barometer Movement When the require file has been Opened another button Table Nica Instructions now appears quo When this is clicked Scorer looks for a rtf file OR pdf file in the same directory as the hwl or bar file with the same name as the movement Do you want to produce table file and this file should contain a printable version of the table ai instructions for players telling them what pairs should be at the table in ereman each round what boards they should be playing and where they are to move for the next round The section may be added with the Add Section button If there is a phantom you will be asked what Howell Pair number is the phantom missing pair NOT table and position Custom Movements are loaded in a similar manner to the Howell but there are three types of files how Howell type movements where there is only one winner and s
86. vent has been set up as a Handicap teams event there will be a Handicap Results button beside the Calc Results button This will produce a report of the round results inclusive of the handicap which is entered on the team entry screen The Web button beside Calc Results runs a procedure to transfer the data through to the www tasp bridgenz co nz website if the club has subscribed to the BridgeNZ service for web publishing 5 1 7 OTHER OPTIONS from the sections screen View Team Enter the team number in the box to the right of the View Team button Click View Team and a complete history of the team match will show From the team results screen you can view or print the results or export them to Excel or a CSV file in the same manner other teams results are printed Adjustments This allows the Director to enter VP Swiss or Net IMP adjustments for each team These should be saved using the save button on the adjustment screen Carry Over Carry Over has now been separated from adjustments Scores for the purposes of Draws will include Carry Over but will NOT include Adjustments This means that if a team has a penalty they will not benefit by getting an easier draw Split Event If the viewed event 1s partially or completely a qualifying event then this button 1s used to populate the team player names and carry over for the alternate event Once players have been selected for the alternate event they will no longer be include
87. was HOME to team Y in the first RR then Team Y would be Home when they play X in the second RR The remainder of the teams match is handled in the same way as Swiss but draws are known in advance and can be published in advance so scores can be entered while a subsequent match is being played ODD TEAMS With the Custom Draw option you can now use an ODD number of teams Manual Edit draw gt Once the setup of the event is done it is expected that the three cos eet gt teams will play 2 x half matches per stanza This has the basic e Ea advantage that they can go talk to their team mates between stanzas michelli Under Draw choose Custom Draw then select your pre entered custom movement in the Teams folder in Boardmove A When entering scores for these be careful as your three way match can t have say 5v6 and 6v5 so typing 5 on the entry line will get 5v6 and typing 6 on the entry line will give 6v7 and typing 7 on the entry line will give 7v5 It 1s important to get these in the correct order ETA 7 Bye RR IPs trt At the end of ODD rounds the half way IMP scores should be entered for the three anta _ STeamRR trt way match If you insist on playing overlapping boards with the three way then L ST test only trt enter 0 0 for the scores at the half way point and the complete IMP result at the end of the even rounds For more details on this please contact BridgeNZ 46 5 3 Multiple Tea
88. web alter the How Many Sessions field to the number played and decrease the other fields accordingly If this is not done then the ladder will not display correctly on the web 3 7 2 Set Up a Special Ladder Special ladders are able to be set up for almost any event are Particularly 1 When an event runs across years Often done as st Holiday Pairs Individual 2 When there are two events which overlap say first ai session of each month counts toward an Individual dd A coats Ladder 3 Someone has set up each session of the event under a different EventID i e the user has used Add Event to put in another session for an existing event Special Ladders Use these to ladder combine selected session results from diflerent competitions on the calendar Give the Special Ladder a name set the type of Ladder keeping in mind how all your sessions have Ladder Name mG pci been set up Select Sessions opens the session selection window If all sessions for the event are from one night and or one time of day you can restrict the displayed sessions using the filters at the bottom right Calendar View Dey ctwees All Use this to minimise calendar Select the sessions required for the ladder weighting for the section and define if the session is compulsory then click the Add Event button L should read Add Session To remove a session ensure it is highl
89. y Level 1 9 Once you set up the security settings you can have members log in and perform only the tasks that they are required to do To use the User Login rather then the Known As name for logging in you need to change the entry under Options gt Scoring Options and tick Use Login Name Use Remote Scoring V ye C BOS BridgeScorer bscontrol exe Bridge Pad O Bridge Scorer Use Login Name V Ghosting y 2 Login to Scorer Start Scorer using the icon Or alternatively from your programme menu or quick launch bar F 4 When you start Scorer the first screen that shows is the Splash Screen which shows the version of Scorer that you are running When this disappears the Login screen appears In the Scorer Login Window the user types the login name assigned to them and the password associated with that Enter Password e g John Brown may have the username johnab with a password of Batman This has been assigned to him R in the Club administration screens see later Please enter your name and password Firstly John can sign in as JohnAB or johnab or any other mix of upper amp lower case letters The password ae A MUST be in the same case as the original so batman will NOT work Hame Enter Once logged in the menu items will be available to the user If the user does not have permission to use a menu then the item will be grey and not respond to the mouse click
90. ype Pairs Teams or Individual Scoring Method Ladder Type NZBID for future use Other fields can be added to the screen for the current session by right clicking in the header line and going to Field Chooser This allows you to see such fields as calendarID Calendar entries with the same Event ID belong to the same event but if two entries have different EventIDs they will be for different events even if the event name is the same Events with the same EventID will automatically have a ladder associated with them To enter non sequential sessions for an event set up the first session as a new entry in the calendar Then use the Add Session option to add the remaining sessions This ensures that all sessions relating to the event have the same Event ID in the calendar The entries for one event should have the same name and as noted above MUST have the same Event ID Events entered incorrectly in the calendar may be modified If an event is changed eg from Pairs to Handicap Pairs you can make the change apply to all sessions in the event by ticking the box Apply to all Sessions before pressing OK When the calendar has been accessed in Edit mode then double clicking a calendar entry brings up the Edit dialogue box for that session When adding an event there is an option of Swiss Matchpoints in the Scoring Method This function is still under development and should not be used currently 17 151 13 12 2010 168

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