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As many know, we did presentations at Regional meetings, sent the information to clubs and attached the same information on our website in September 2016 to show what we have done on the website and the progress we are making on new innovations to be released in 2017.

This is another update to tell you how we are going.

The project kicked off in August 2016 and we are making progress as budgeted and scheduled.

We expect the first “real” testing with selected clubs in late February. The specification is attached to the end of this news item.

The three main scoring system suppliers in NZ --- Martin Oyston Bridge NZ Scorer, Bob Fearn Compass Scoring and Peter Busch Altsoft Compscore 2.  Each one has completed initial testing of loading of results from their systems to our website and downloading player information. A bulk upload from the current Microsoft Access environment to the new website also completed initial testing, thanks to Chris Jared.

All four groups have been most helpful in making positive suggestions and further refining the Phase 3 specification.

Mainly completed elements to date are:-

• Results upload all specified event types i.e. Teams, Swiss, Pairs …
• Player info downloads
• Player maintenance, moving from club to club, initial enrolling etc
• Club maintenance (address, website etc.)
• Tournament maintenance (dates, booking info, etc.)
• Electronic Masterpoints invoicing by email, and Levy invoicing, along with drill-downs for detail

We are at the stage where it almost looks ready, but there are extras that will inevitably arise, oversights to manage and a raft of minor but important integrations to complete. It is always a delicate balance between

a) preparing a perfect specification, which could take years, and

b) running with the best effort within our budget and time and expect to make some adjustments as we progress. 

We chose the latter route.

Good news !  Some third parties have expressed an interest in advertising their services on the NZB website.

Click here to view the details we published in September 2016

For those interested in reading the full specification of the current developments (Phase 3), please click on the file below.

Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Karen Martelletti or go to the Technology Forum on this site - click on the link here

 

1. Scoring spec (updated 12 Jan 2017).pdf (0.51MB)

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