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9/18/20 server upgrades How about some details?

#1 User is offline   MojoLA 

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Posted 2020-September-19, 12:24

The online message has some enticing updates for directors, but is sadly missing on details!

How do we see a traveler during an event? I haven't found anything. (It says in "Tournament History" which I can't find.) (/v3)

How small a game will be stratified now? What are the rules?

How about some details on the new SECTIONSIZE hack? What if you have an odd number of tables?

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Posted 2020-September-19, 13:00

Hi Mojo,

Greg Coles has more details. This was a server upgrade (the backstage support). Some extra coding is needed to offer extra tools to the TDs.

We plan to do a small bbo client upgrade early next week and this will activate the board travellers option in the TD tools.

This feature is only available in sanctioned tournaments (you will see it when using your VACB account, but not in a free game).

We'll update the club manager manual and all relevant documentation when all features are fully active and available.

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Posted 2020-September-19, 15:59

View Postdiana_eva, on 2020-September-19, 13:00, said:

Hi Mojo,

Greg Coles has more details. This was a server upgrade (the backstage support). Some extra coding is needed to offer extra tools to the TDs.

We plan to do a small bbo client upgrade early next week and this will activate the board travellers option in the TD tools.

This feature is only available in sanctioned tournaments (you will see it when using your VACB account, but not in a free game).

We'll update the club manager manual and all relevant documentation when all features are fully active and available.

Diana


So, are these upgrades for ACBL only or are the virtual club accounts for other NBO's included?

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Posted 2020-September-19, 23:32

View Postpgrice, on 2020-September-19, 15:59, said:

So, are these upgrades for ACBL only or are the virtual club accounts for other NBO's included?

Peter


What’s new:

  • Tourney History tool improvements ---> Available to all NBOs. Not available to free tourney hosts and commercial accounts that do not have access to the tourney logs.
    • Support for showing board travellers to the TD.
    • Include reason for which a director was called at the table
    • When an adjustment is made, show who made the adjustment
  • Stratify small tournaments (ACBL) ---> ACBL
  • Bug fix related to tourney adjustments ---> Everyone
  • Ability to specify section size in tournaments ---> Everyone
    • Write +SECTIONSIZE=X+ in tournament description. (Where X is the number of tables).
  • Other tweaks, bug fixes and improvements.


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Posted 2020-September-20, 11:17

View Postdiana_eva, on 2020-September-19, 23:32, said:

What’s new:

  • Tourney History tool improvements ---> Available to all NBOs. Not available to free tourney hosts and commercial accounts that do not have access to the tourney logs.
    • Support for showing board travellers to the TD.
    • Include reason for which a director was called at the table
    • When an adjustment is made, show who made the adjustment
  • Stratify small tournaments (ACBL) ---> ACBL
  • Bug fix related to tourney adjustments ---> Everyone
  • Ability to specify section size in tournaments ---> Everyone
    • Write +SECTIONSIZE=X+ in tournament description. (Where X is the number of tables).
  • Other tweaks, bug fixes and improvements.


Is it definitely uppercase?
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Posted 2020-September-20, 13:11

Nope, at some point the programmers made all these description strings case insensitive. So it doesn't have to be all caps.

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Posted 2020-September-20, 13:36

On Saturday our 5-table game (#59370) was not stratified. I assumed that this might have been because it was created before the server change. Is that correct?
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Posted 2020-September-20, 18:31

View PostMcBruce, on 2020-September-20, 13:36, said:

On Saturday our 5-table game (#59370) was not stratified. I assumed that this might have been because it was created before the server change. Is that correct?

The server change was made Thursday night, but this feature needs to be enabled in a settings file. We haven't made that change yet.

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Posted 2020-September-21, 08:58

View Postbarmar, on 2020-September-20, 18:31, said:

The server change was made Thursday night, but this feature needs to be enabled in a settings file. We haven't made that change yet.


Please announce changes when they are actually available. Far less confusion that way.
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Posted 2020-September-22, 08:58

View Postjnichols, on 2020-September-21, 08:58, said:

Please announce changes when they are actually available. Far less confusion that way.

The change was made yesterday afternoon.

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Posted 2020-September-22, 09:30

View Postbarmar, on 2020-September-22, 08:58, said:

The change was made yesterday afternoon.


I can't see it when I look. Is it just in the web version? Where do I look? There was mention above of "Tourney History" but that doesn't seem to be in the dropdown menu.
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Posted 2020-September-23, 14:13

View Postgordontd, on 2020-September-22, 09:30, said:

I can't see it when I look. Is it just in the web version? Where do I look? There was mention above of "Tourney History" but that doesn't seem to be in the dropdown menu.

I was talking about the change that allows tournaments with 5 or fewer tables to be stratified. That doesn't appear anywhere, it just happens automatically. We reduced the minimum number of tables for stratification to 3.

However, last night we reverted to the previous version of the server because of the bug that caused yesterday afternoon's crash.

The changes to the TD tool affect the "Table History" and "Player History" options in the dropdown menu; but this was also reverted until we can deploy the server fix.

The server was changed to support showing the traveller for a specific board, but you won't be able to access this until an option is added to the client.

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