Signups   Player List   Contacts   Rankings  

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The purpose of these pages is to make signing up for the bridge games easy and convenient.
The main signup page is signup.
The players signed up for the various games are displayed
inside a form which also allow players to sign up or change their plans.

Executive Summary: Just 3 Quick Steps (or maybe 4)

1. Visit the page signup
2. Enter your name.
   >> Shortcut: Combine steps 1 & 2 by using signup?PlayerName.
3. Click on the icons of the games you want to join,
   choosing above or below the line.
4. Click .

That's all there is to it!

The Gory Details:

To sign up for one or more games:

1. Specify the player.
   
   There are several ways to name the player who is signing up:
   • Append ?PlayerName to the URL ( * * the fastest way - see details below * * ).
   • Choose a name from the list provided under "Choose player". (Uses Javascript.)
   • Highlight a name on the page and drag it to the "Enter your name" box.
   • Keyboard entry or paste directly into the "Enter your name" box.
   • Multiple players can be signed up for the same games together.
     Enter the names separated by plus signs, e.g. Rodgers+Hammerstein .
   
   It is permitted to sign up other players.
   Names must be alphanumeric without spaces,
   and are converted to Titlecase (initial capital, rest lower case).
   
   
2. (Optional) Comments appended to player names
   An underscore character can be appended to a player name,
   followed by a comment such as "might be late" or "if needed".
   Any characters other than comma, semi-colon, and plus
   can be used in the comment text.
   
   When deleting or moving a player within the form,
   comments are not preserved, so, if desired, they must be re-entered.
   Matching is done based on just the player's name.
   
   
3. Choose the games
   
   Choose as few or as many games as you want to play in by
   clicking on the appropriate icons
   
   
   • To sign up "above the line", click on .
   • To sign up "below the line", click on .
   • To un-signup (remove a player from a game), click on .
     
     
   • The background color of the game changes to reflect the selections.
   • To change between "above the line" and "below the line", just choose the one you want, even if you are already signed up.
     It is not necessary to do a delete first. (Caveat: you then get lower priority because your signup time changes.)
   • To un-select a game (because you clicked it by mistake for example), click on .
     If that button is checked, or no button is checked, for a particular game, then no action will be taken.
   • To reset the entire form to its original state, click .
   
   
4. Sign up!
   
   When you have entered a player name and made your selections, click on to register for the games.
   The page is then updated and will include a summary of your actions.
   
   
5. Lather, rinse, repeat as needed.
   Remember you can sign up for all games during one week in one go.
   
   

Additional information:

• If you enter the page via signup?PlayerName the input box will automatically be filled in. For convenience, you can create a bookmark/favorite of the page with ?PlayerName appended and then return to it directly.
  
  Using this feature enables you to sign up for n games with just n+1 clicks:
  open the page, click n icons, then click .
  
  
• The controls are not displayed for past games, and those days show in gray.
  The transition occurs on the day of the game, in the afternoon.
• On Sunday afternoon, the current week is replaced by the following week.
• You can choose to view either the previous week, the current week, or the following week
  via the "Available dates" buttons in the middle of the screen,
  with signups permitted for any future game shown.
  
  

Player List Maintenance: playerlist.shtml

• This is the list of players who appear in the Choose player dropdown list on the Signup page.

  To add or delete a name, edit the full list and click Update.
  The list of names you submit becomes the new list.
  A useful precaution:
  copy the existing list to the Windows clipboard before making changes,
  in case you make a mistake, it will make it easier to fix.
  

Contacts page:

• contacts.shtml shows player office locations and phone numbers.

  Jim Alstad is in charge of maintaining it. If you are not listed or want to change your info, contact him.

  For convenience, the text used to create this page is included within it as a comment. Use the View Source feature of your browser to access it.

Rankings page:

• The current rankings of players are given on rankings.shtml.

  There is a built-in search function on the page. Enter a player's name (e.g. TOM), part of a player's name (e.g. MOR), or a pair name "JOE/BOB" and click "FIND". All matching occurrences will be highlighted. Use the RESET button to clear the highlights, or just do another search. For pairs, they must be listed in the correct order, with the slash, and no spaces. Searches are not case sensitive.