1. Introduction
1.1 Using this Guide
2. Building your Web Site
2.1 The Home Page
2.2 Adjusting the menu
2.3 The Site Menu
2.4 Populating with basic data
2.4.1 Home Page
2.4.2 Calendar
2.4.3 Calendar Month
2.4.4 Information Page
2.4.5 Membership
2.4.6 People Database
2.5 More Features
2.5.1 Competitions and Ladders
2.5.2 Using Pictures
2.5.3 Using Documents
2.5.4 Displaying Hand of the Week
2.5.5 Site Style/Themes
2.5.6 More Calendar features
2.5.7 Login Passwords
2.5.8 Find a Partner
2.5.9 Bookings/Reservations
3. Using your Web Site - Administration
3.1 Scoring Software and Results Upload
3.1.1 Automatic upload
3.1.2 Results Administration
3.1.3 Results Files
3.1.4 Uploading the deal file
3.1.5 Amend or delete results
3.1.6 Setting Up for American Style
3.2 News Pages
3.3 Maintaining your calendar
3.4 Set up your Membership database
3.4.1 Add a Member
3.4.2 Member Only features
3.4.3 GDPR
3.4.4 What can Members Do?
3.5 Listing other clubs
3.5.1 Club Database
4. Using your Web Site - Members
4.1 Setting your password
4.2 Using Find a Partner
4.2.1 Find a Partner using Calendar Month Menu
4.2.2 Find a Partner using Member Only Tab
4.2.3 Making a reservation ( booking)
4.3 Download results
4.4 EBU NGS Grades
4.5 Results Display
4.5.1 Results Features
4.5.2 Personal Results Analysis
4.5.3 Card Analysis
4.5.4 Hand Evaluation
4.5.5 Movement options
4.5.6 Play it Again
4.5.7 Results Analysis
4.5.8 Results Display 2022 Edition
4.6 Personal Analysis
5. Trouble Shooting
5.1 Makeable contracts not displaying
5.2 Photos not displaying or displaying upside down
5.3 Passwords
5.3.1 Member password
5.4 Exporting list of members
5.5 Logging into bridgewebs from phone
5.6 How do you know if your site is on latest release
5.7 How do I set column widths
5.8 How do I change club name
5.9 How do I change the number of results appearing on the home page
5.9.1 Same person with records under two names
5.9.2 Results not properly uploaded
5.9.3 Showing slams in ranking table
5.10 Backups
5.11 Email groups
6. More on uploading results
6.1 General
6.1.1 Login Code
6.1.2 Set your Scoring Software
6.1.3 Predealt Hands
6.1.4 Wireless Scoring
6.1.5 Calendar Matching
6.2 Uploading from Scorebridge
6.2.1 Initial Setup Club Code and Password
6.2.2 Initial Setup Standard Outputs
6.2.3 Automatic Upload of Results each time
6.3 Uploading from EBUScore
6.4 Uploading from BrIan
6.5 Uploading ACBL results using Results Administration
6.5.1 If you use predealt hands
6.5.2 ACBL Live
6.6 Uploading ACBL results using Scorepost
6.6.1 Scorepost Setup
6.6.2 Save the Setup File
6.6.3 Scorepost Results Administration
6.7 Recover results files
6.8 Uploading using other scoring software
6.9 Multiple events on one day
6.10 Live Ranking
6.11 ACBL Master Points
6.12 ACBL Game Master Points
6.13 ACBL BWS File
6.14 Windows Firewall
7. Bridge Online
7.1 BBO Results
7.1.1 Method 1 Use BBO Extractor or other software
7.1.2 Method 2 Enter BBO Session Number into Calendar
7.1.3 Hints for accessing results of a BBO Session
7.1.4 Hints for translating the BBO Username to actual name
7.1.5 BBO ACBL Virtual Games
7.1.6 What is a CSV file?
7.2 BCL Virtual Clubs
7.3 RealBridge
7.4 ACBL@Live BBO Results
7.5 Stepbridge
7.6 Attendance/Table Money/Fees
8. Deal Files
8.1 Hand Generating software
8.2 Creating deal files
8.3 Deal Uploading
8.4 Play it Again software
8.5 EBU/ECATS Simultaneous sessions
8.6 Jannersten BOS/Duplimapp
8.7 Widgets
9. Web Pages
9.1 News Items
9.2 Changing/splitting pages
9.3 Editor
9.3.1 Editor usage
9.4 Add a Link
9.5 Forms
9.5.1 Forms emails
9.5.2 Message Board
9.6 Add Special Content/Widget
9.7 Hand of the week
9.8 Membership lists
9.8.1 Adding Extra Fields
9.9 Picture Gallery
9.9.1 To add a single picture to a news item
9.9.2 Using the editor
9.9.3 Using the Add Picture button
9.10 Page Options
9.11 Page Sequence
9.12 Themes and site style
10. The Calendar
10.1 Calendar Fields
10.2 Amending the Calendar
10.3 Highlighting Calendar Events
10.4 Quick Update
10.5 The Schedule
10.6 Calendar Options
10.7 Calendar Sharing
10.8 Suspending Calendar
10.9 Links to Online Bridge
10.10 Access to BBO Results
11. Competitions
11.1 Competition Features
11.2 Eligible Dates
11.2.1 User Selected Dates
11.2.2 Auto Dates
11.3 Presentation
11.4 Restrictions
11.5 Rules
11.6 Handicaps
11.6.1 Rolling Handicap
11.6.2 Calculating handicap for a pair
11.6.3 Manual Handicaps
11.6.4 NGS Handicaps
11.7 Name changes and aliases
11.8 Ascendancy Tables
11.9 NGS grades
11.10 Interclub
12. Club Location
13. The Menu
13.1 Amending the Menu
13.2 Adding Pages
13.3 Adding Documents
13.4 Member Only Menu
14. Pictures
14.1 Picture Library
14.2 Videos
14.3 Picture and Video upload
14.4 Membership pictures
14.5 Favicon
15. Documents
15.1 Document formats
15.2 Document Upload
15.3 Document Usage
15.4 Private Documents
16. Membership Features
16.1 Update your Membership Database
16.1.1 Synchronization
16.1.2 Import/Export
16.1.3 ACBL player file
16.1.4 Player Database
16.1.5 EBUScore Synchronization
16.2 Members Only Page
16.3 Calendar Features
16.4 Bulk email
16.4.1 To send "Bulk Email"
16.4.2 Email Selection Criteria
16.4.3 Mail Merge
16.4.4 Emailing Documents
16.4.5 Bulk Email Templates
16.5 PayPal Payments
16.5.1 PayPal Button
17. Email Queries
17.1 Emails not received
17.2 Bulk Email log
17.3 Email Service
18. Attendance Module
18.1 Attendance Overview
18.2 Attendance Basics
18.3 Options
18.4 Payment Rates
18.5 Attendance Operation
19. Social Module
19.1 Social Module Administration
20. Toolkit
20.1 Help Topics
20.2 Web Administration Set Up
21. Other important stuff
21.1 Adaptive design
21.2 Bridgewebs BackUps
21.3 Cut and Paste
21.4 Domain
21.5 PDF Files
21.6 Performance
21.7 Results only service
21.8 Security Settings
21.9 Spam
21.10 Site Statistics
21.11 Time Zone
21.12 Twitter
21.13 Upgrades
21.14 Browse Button
21.15 Web Searches
21.16 Character Sets
22. Programmer Notes
22.1 Player DB Synchronization
22.2 ScoreBridge Player Synch
22.3 CSV Format
22.4 API Interface
22.5 API Sample Code
22.6 Integrated Calendar Check
22.7 PBN Files
BridgeWebs User Guide
22. Programmer Notes
22.4 API Interface

Information can be sent to and retrieved from Bridgewebs using an API Call using the HTTP Post Extension:

The results files can be uploaded through the web site, but for software developers it is possible to use an HTTP post directive to post the files directly rather than use FTP.

An HTTP post basically does what a user would do by going to a web page and clicking submit with the fields filled in.

The reply can be read to see what happened and parse "message = xxxxx" to find the status.

Your Software

It will be necessary to provide an option for the user to enter the Club Code instead of "myclub" and their Bridgewebs club "password" in the software Options/Configuration file somewhere.

Then provide suitable buttons [Upload to BridgeWebs] etc. somewhere on the Results page to execute the transfer

See below for VB or Perl example..

Results Upload API

To upload the results with attachments, the parameters are:

club      = myclub
password  = secret
type      = upload
filename  = xxxxxxxx.csv
event_id  = N (if known, see Calendar below)
data      = a string of all the lines of the xxxxxxxx.csv file
dealname  = xxxxxxxx.dlm (can be dlm, bri, pbn, dup)
dealdata  = a string of all the lines of the xxxxxxxx.dlm file
dealXname = xxxxxxxx.dlm (can be dlm, bri, pbn, dup) } Where X is 2-9 for extra sessions.
dealXdata = a string of all the lines of the xxxxxx.dlm file }
infoname  = info.pdf (PDF supporting Info file)
infodata  = a string of all the lines of the info.pdf file
// for ACBL Uploads
acblname  = ACBL file name 140709.ACA (as necessary)
acbldata  = a string of all the lines of the ACBL file
bwsname   = BWS file name 140709.ACA (as necessary)
bwsdata   = a string of all the lines of the BWS file

The data of the files can be strung together from the file and put it in one field "data" or "handdata" as appropriate. It is as if you cut and paste the file into a web text box. In this case, the filename specified is not actually accessed but is used as the file name when writing the data on the bridgewebs server for consistency with the manual technique.

The reply can be parsed to see what happened.
Parse "message = xxxxx" to find the status.

Player Upload API

To upload the player file, the parameters are:

club      = myclub
password  = secret
type      = upload
transfer  = pdb
filename  = xxxxxxxx.XXX
data      = a string of all the lines of the xxxxxxxx file

Where XXX is

txt = Scorebridge format
csv = csv format
xml = EBU USEBIO Format

Player Download API

To download the player file, the parameters are:

club      = myclub
password  = secret
type      = download
transfer  = pdb
filename  = xxxxxxxx.XXX

Where XXX is

txt = Scorebridge format
csv = csv format
xml = EBU USEBIO Format

The reply will contain the player file in a separate line.

message = Download Successful
data = ..............., then split the content of that line replacing (tilde) with \n.

Direct Document Upload API

To just upload a document to the club directory, the parameters are:

club     = myclub
password = secret
type     = upload
transfer = doc
filename = bw.csv
data     = a string of all the lines of the bw.csv file

Hand Upload API

To upload a .pbn deal file and attach to an event, the parameters are:

club     = myclub
password = secret
type     = upload
transfer = deal
event    = YYYYMMDD_X e.g. 20140709_1,
           X is the unique Id of the event for that date, usually 1.
dealname = xxxxxxxx.pbn
dealdata = an encoded string of all the lines of the xxxxxxxx.pbn file

As a safety feature, will fail if the event does not exist. So the club will need to create Calendar entries in advance.

Calendar Download API

To download the club calendar, the parameters are:

club     = myclub
password = secret
type     = download
year     = 2014 (yyyy)
transfer = cal

This will return a JSON argument of the calendar entries for the YEAR as a pair, id = title, file (if uploaded)

json = {"events":{"201407091":{"file":"2014Jul09!!.dat","title":"Duplicate Pairs"},.....}}

Event Download API

Similar to the Calendar, but just the events for a particular day, the parameters are:

club     = myclub
password = secret
type     = download
transfer = events
date     = 20140709 (yyyymmdd)

This will return a JSON argument of the calendar entries for the day as a pair, id = title, file (if uploaded)

json = {"events":{"1":{"file":"2014Jul09!!.dat","title":"Duplicate Pairs"},"2":{"title":"Create New Event"}}}

and a list of events for the day, Title File uploaded

event_id_1 = Duplicate Pairs 10022_res_2014Aug19!!.dat
event_id_2 = Create New Even
t

We are migrating this to JSON, so if you add a parameter

   format = json

this will return a pure json data file.