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
11. Competitions
11.9 NGS grades

EBU Affiliated Clubs Only

There is a feature in Bridgewebs to retrieve the NGS Grades from the EBU.

NGS Grades

You will first need to go to Web Admin - Settings - Site Details

  • Enter Your EBU Club Number
  • Enter your EBU Club password.
  • [Save]

Once these have been entered Bridgewebs will automatically obtain the NGS Grades for the club at the start of each month.

NOTE: Bridgewebs will update the Bridgewebs Membership database for any Members on the Membership database with an EBU Number (See Below)

Technically, each time any results are uploaded or the site updated, then Bridgewebs will check that the NGS Grades have been downloaded for the current month and, if not, retrieve them from the EBU site. This is for efficiency reasons to avoid unnecessary downloading of the same file.

Displaying NGS Grades

You can display the NGS Grades in your web site.

  • Create a New News Page
  • Create a News Items
  • Enter some text as necessary
  • Use the Widget "EBU NGS Grades"
  • go to "Page Options" to make this Public or Private.

or let Bridgewebs add a page automatically to the Members Only Tabs.

NGS Rank Percentage

In WebAdmin - Settings - Scoring, you have an option to display the NGS Ranking for an event on the Ranking Page

  • Show with Popup Detail
  • Show without detail
  • Do not show

Bridgewebs will calculate the average NGS % for the event using the NGS Percentage for each player downloaded at the beginning of the month. This is an indication of the strength of the event and is not as comprehensive as the EBU Calculation which takes into consideration the latest information and Strength of Field, split by direction for Straight Mitchell.

NOTE: Players will only appear if:

  • the Bridgewebs Membership database has an EBU Number (Member or Visitor) and Registered at the EBU as a Member of the club. 
  • the Bridgewebs Membership database "Opt-in Rank" is set to YES.
  • the player has ticked "Appear in masterpoint promotions lists" in their MyEBU Account "My Details".

If you find the NGS rating or anything else is not as you expect, please check that the EBU Number is correct for each player.

Using NGS Grades in Competitions

These can be used in the "Competitions" feature and allow you to apply Handicaps according to the Grades. The grades are:

67+ Ace ♠
65 - 67 Ace ♥ 
63 - 65 Ace ♦ 
61 - 63 Ace ♣
59 - 61 King
57 - 59 Queen
55 - 57 Jack
53 - 55 Ten
51 - 53 Nine
49 - 51 Eight
47 - 49 Seven
45 - 47 Six
43 - 45 Five
41 - 43 Four
39 - 41 Three
under 39 Two

Handicap Competitions

You can choose to generate Handicaps dependent on the Member NGS Grades.

Select "Handicap" type "NGS Grades" and [Save]
Then a list of Grades will show and you can enter the Handicap to be applied to each grade.
Remember, for the top handicap, e.g. Ace, enter this as minus
For each event in the Competition Bridgewebs will look up the Grade for the player from the NGS Grade table for the first month of the competition (avoiding the NGS Grade changing during the period of the Competition) and apply a handicap according to your competition handicap set up.