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 from CompScore
6.6 Uploading ACBL results using Results Administration
6.6.1 If you use predealt hands
6.6.2 ACBL Live
6.7 Uploading ACBL results using Scorepost
6.7.1 Scorepost Setup
6.7.2 Save the Setup File
6.7.3 Scorepost Results Administration
6.8 Recover results files
6.9 Uploading using other scoring software
6.10 Multiple events on one day
6.11 Live Ranking
6.12 ACBL Master Points
6.13 ACBL Game Master Points
6.14 ACBL BWS File
6.15 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
9.1.1 Changing/splitting pages
9.2 Editor
9.2.1 Editor usage
9.3 Add a Link
9.4 Forms
9.4.1 Forms emails
9.4.2 Message Board
9.5 Add Special Content/Widget
9.6 Hand of the week
9.7 Membership lists
9.7.1 Adding Extra Fields
9.8 Picture Gallery
9.8.1 To add a single picture to a news item
9.8.2 Using the editor
9.8.3 Using the Add Picture button
9.9 Page Options
9.9.1 Page Sequence
9.10 Themes and site style
9.11 Additional Features
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
21. Other important stuff
21.2 Bridgewebs Back-Ups

There are a number of backups taken of the Bridgewebs databases and documents. These are stored off-site and can be used in the event of a disaster.

User Backups

Additionally backups are taken that you can use to recover lost information or experiment.

  • Weekly - A backup of all of the Bridgewebs sites is taken early (GMT) on Saturday morning
  • Monthly - A backup of all of the Bridgewebs sites is taken early (GMT) on last Sunday of the month

These do take several hours to run, so it is not possible to predict what time that your club will be backed up.

To access these simply change the subdomain or www part of the web address for your club

  • Weekly - from www to weekly
  • Monthly - from www to monthly

You can use these backups to retrieve data that you might have accidentally or otherwise deleted from the live system. For News items, use Cut & Paste.

Alternatively, you can try things out on these backups without affecting the live sites probably best to use the monthly. Please note these will be automatically overwritten as above.

To recover data, depending on what it is, go into your web site. Open another Browser window, go into your web site and change the www.bridgewebs.com to either weekly.bridgewebs.com or monthly.bridgewebs.com.

Data Backups

Please note, these are in addition to off-site backups which would be used by Bridgewebs for Disaster recovery.

Bridgewebs also has a Backup server that could be used in the event of irretrievable outage of the main server.

Server Backup - Raid

For the techies among you, the server does have 'Raid', also known as 'Mirror', disks for additional security.

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a means for storing data on multiple hard disks, then linking the disks so that the operating system on the server views them as a single entity. The Bridgewebs server does use provide RAID-1, meaning that there is an exact duplicate copy of your data on two separate hard drives in case one of them fails. The RAID disk is continually and automatically updated.

This can be really useful if part of the disk fails. In which case when the system detects a disk error, it gracefully slows down, to avoid further issues and reports an issue until a human can intervene. At this stage the System Support will asses what the damage is and whether the disk is recoverable. On assessment, the 'Live' and 'Raid' disk will be removed and the 'Good' disk will be physically copied to a new 'Disk'. On completion of this phase the new 'Disk' will be returned to the server, checked out and 'Raid' disk built again which can take several hours before the server is fully functional.