[calfanz]

For all of you experts out there...



Have been trying to set up some bidding tables, to help some students. WHen i try to constrain suits (actually trying to set up Jacoby 2nt and responses)--it either doesn't follow the constraints OR it gives me an error message.



I emailed BBO, they gave me some instructions (I'll include below) and they don't seem to help. I even tried different browsers.

Thanks in advance--



FROM BBO--

Constraints

To do this click on Practice > start a teaching table or a bidding table

Then click on the triple bars (≡) and go to Deal source > random deals.

Now click on the + sign in Constraint Sets

Select who will be the dealer and the total HCP for N/S (e.i. Min 28 - Max 36)

You can also define the distribution , clicking on Constraints and assign for South min 11 pts max 28 HCP and number of cards in spades, hearts, etc

Then click on Constraint 2 and select North

Min 8 pts max 12 pts - number of spades, hearts, etc min 2 max 2

Then close the Deal Source pop-up and click on Redeal .

Please note that a recent Chrome upgrade broke something with the Deal Source menu. Please use a different browser until we figure it out and fix.

[paulg]

There are some known issues with constraints.

If you put your constraints in, as you have done, and then click on the Advanced tab, then you will some code to generate the hands.

Check the box for 'Use this input for the Dealer program"

Before closing this window, replace any "&&" in the code with the word "and". Similarly replace any "||" with "or".

Close the window and redeal.

This may solve your problem.

[calfanz]

paulg, on 2020-April-19, 19:05, said:

There are some known issues with constraints.

If you put your constraints in, as you have done, and then click on the Advanced tab, then you will some code to generate the hands.

Check the box for 'Use this input for the Dealer program"

Before closing this window, replace any "&&" in the code with the word "and". Similarly replace any "||" with "or".

Close the window and redeal.

This may solve your problem.

thanks!

[barmar]

The problem with "&&" should be fixed now.