Bridgemate and Ase8

[Fearghal O'Boyle]

Hi Ian,
In Ase8 you have a nice Bridgemate window that opens up when we click Bridgemate. Is there anywhere we can get help on how to answer any questions at that point? I don't think the F1 help file works here.
I am interested to know what the initialise option does? what the create database option does? what the start bridgemate option does? They all sound the same to me but obviously there are times when we use each of them and I am curious to get it right.
In particular I would like to know how to clear a movement from a set of bridgemates e.g. I set up an 11 table mitchell and send the movement to the server and then decide not to use bridgemate that evening.
How do I clear a movement from a set of bridgemates if I decide to change the movement? How do I change the movement without having to get the players to reinput their first board again?
Regards,
Fearghal.
:)

[ianmac]

There are 4 buttons in the "Advanced screen".
[Start]...start the bridgemate program
[Create].create a new database for BM (and use the [settings] in that database). Makes the database file ?.bws
[Load]...put the ASE scorer session details in the database
[Start read]..once running start reading the results entered by the players

These are equivalent to the four options in the "Auto start options".
Typically these 4 things will need to be done on a first time startup of an event. Therefore these should be normally ticked. They are done in the order shown in this box....create, load, start BM, read.

When the the BM program starts (whether auto or manual) the four options shown in "Bridgemate start options" apply.
{Open database}...if not the next two do not apply.
{Initialize}...resets the BM server and uploads the tables to the BM server.
{Start capture}...begins getting the results from the tabletop devices.
{Minimize}...will the BM program be showing on the screen or not.

I am interested to know what the initialise option does?

resets the BM server and uploads the tables to the BM server. It does not reset the table tops (TTs).

In particular I would like to know how to clear a movement from a set of bridgemates e.g. I set up an 11 table mitchell and send the movement to the server and then decide not to use bridgemate that evening.
How do I clear a movement from a set of bridgemates if I decide to change the movement?

You can reset all the TT devices, manually, one by one. The TTs are the boss. They need to be, for if you lose everything else (e.g. all power goes) you can recover. But see next...

How do I change the movement without having to get the players to reinput their first board again?

The option "update from round" is the one to use.
e.g. The event has started, normal way, using autostart. Another pair arrives during round 1, and you add them to the last table where there was a sitout.
[replace] the section in ASE.
The BM database, BM program, server, TTs are all left as is.
Go to BM screen in ASE (advanced) and [load] the new session details.
Before you do this, set the "update from round" to 2. The scores from round 1 are left as is. The last table can start from round 1 though as they have not entered any scores yet.
Note you must start reading again, and also set the "re-read" option "on" as the ASE scorer session scores have been lost when you replaced the section.
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Where you have changed the movement completely, enter 1 in the update from round field. Round 1 scores will need to be re-entered.
This method can be used to add a new table to the movement too.
This addresses the previous question too, resetting all the TTs.
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[Fearghal O'Boyle]

Many Thanks for your complete, thorough and patient answer to my question. An invaluable page!.
Fearghal.
:)

[ianmac]

In particular I would like to know how to clear a movement from a set of bridgemates e.g. I set up an 11 table mitchell and send the movement to the server and then decide not to use bridgemate that evening.


Currently I am testing release 1.6 and have found that the best procedure in clearing the old event is to close BMPro, create a new database for the new event and start up BMPro with initialize (the normal auto start method). All the BM devices will automatically reset to the new movement after the first communication to the server (you may have to answer a couple of questions that were "left over" from the last event before this takes place). Whether this works with older releases of BMPro I am not sure.

The next ASE8 service pack will support the latest release of BM.