Players management

The players are obviously the cornerstone of the whole system, mainly from the point of view of their participation to the tourneys, but also as potential users of the system itself.

Insert and edit

Player’s first name and last name are mandatory, while nickname may be used either to provide an account or to disambiguate homonyms. When changes are committed SoL does check for the presence of players with a similar name to avoid duplicates.

Player’s sex, birthdate, nationality and club are optional and used to compute different kinds of ranking, while language and email can be used to send email messages.

Very often to be accepted as a participant to international events a player must have the citizenship for the country he plays for, and usually he must be affiliated to the federation of the same country.

The portrait may be any image (preferred formats are .png, .jpg or .gif) and will be used in his personal page. Even if the image will be scaled as needed, it is recommended to assign reasonable sized images (the program imposes a limit of 256Kb).

Tourney subscription

You can select one or more players (the usual shift-click and ctrl-click allow to extend the selection) which can then be dragged and dropped in the Competitors panel on the left of the tourney window. Alternatively you can use the Insert selected players button, if present.

Merging players

Sometime a player gets registered twice (or more) with slightly different names, for whatever reason. The typical case is when the same player partecipates to different tourneys: being known with different names, his results cannot be correctly summarized in the season’s championship, where he appears more than once, with different aliases.

In this situation a merge is needed, that is, his various aliases must be collapsed into a single person, possibly that with the right and complete name, his canonical name; also, those names must be replaced in every tourney he partecipated to with the canonical one and finally deleted from the database.

This can be done by selecting the wrong aliases to be collapsed and ALT-dragging (that is, dragging the selected names keeping the ALT key pressed) them over the right name. You must of course filter the players so that all the names are visible in a single page at the same time, eventually prepending a temporary marker (for example **) to the players’ last name and filtering on that marker.

The server application will ensure that the operation is possible, for example you’ll get an error if the replacement would cause a conflict.

Warning

Do not perform this cleanup while you are setting up a new tourney, as this may easily do the wrong thing with regard to not-yet-committed changes: close the tourney management window!

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