rmunson1

Well, we (player who wants to start team matches as well as myself) have watched your video. He has tried at least 2 more times. Once 'xxxx' is not online even though he is very much online and conducting chats as the match setup proceeds. Again, several times, 'limit exceeded' - I fully understand the point made in the video (click twice) and I have encountered that error legitimately. But, my friend is consistently getting that error even though he is not clicking twice. So, hoping someone has some idea beyond the video regarding what could be preventing 'create team match'?

I have started more than 500 team matches, possibly more than 1000. I am trying to step through a process with a friend to have him do it. He has tried 3 times. First time 'xxxxx is not online' - xxxxx was online so I just wrote that off as a 1-off glitch in BBO. Second time 'exceeded limit' Third time 'exceeded limit' I think we covered the necessary steps rather well. He has been a member for many years with 1000+ logins. Any ideas?

This is new as of yesterday. It works, but it works very very differently and not in a good way. When you click 'create team match' the window closes. There used to be an option to close the window after creating the match, or leave window there if you don't close it. Leaving it there is far far better for 2 reasons: Sometimes invitees decline and you need to reissue. Creating the team match is tedious, and closing the window means that you get to do it all over again, for no reason other than that is the new way that it works. Sometimes I create a short team match (4 boards) and then 7 more using the same players, just moving to different seats (to create an individual movement - which is another issue). I keep the window open through 24 boards, but can close it after the 7th round is started because I am done, there will be no more. But, now that it closes after 1 click on 'create team match' I get to do it all over again. And, if any one declines, then I get to redo that one too. Is it possible to revert to the old way?

Help pages are not dated, so I don't know the vintage of the information found here: Making a bridge movie In any case, once upon a time, it was possible to (re)construct a hand in handviewer format. With the recent removal of all history, it would be nice to be able to reconstruct history. If that is still possible, please advise how. The details in the help document (linked to above) describe features that are not currently a part of BBO. Thanks.

The current system allows every BBO id to be an enemy, neutral or follow. If they follow you, they change from gray to blue. This is useful, but it would be more useful if it were possible to have folders of friends. Default to 'all' but allow me to see only friends/followed ids from those listed in 'folder 1' or those in 'folder 2' If you are trying to start a team match and need the other 7 players there, it would help to be looking only for those 7 and not 'all friends'. If this is implemented, it needs to be possible to have the same friend in 1 or all folders - that is, do not confine a given friend to only be in 1 folder.

I have a couple of suggestions: Vocabulary: Pick a name for each (such as 'Casual' and 'Home'). However, in the announcement, at one point it appears 'Main' is being used to describe 'casual' and at another point, it appears 'main' is being used to describe 'not casual/Home' The current vocabulary (top of page heading) works: 'Casual' and 'Home' I play on my desktop, but have BBO loaded on iPhone and iPad. the logon page should have 'Version 5.6' displayed. Your announcement says 'be sure to have the latest' but there is no way that I know of to know what version I actually have loaded.

Thank you. That answers my question. Much better than I feared.

Actually, I was looking for hands that my son played. Like you, I can see hands from a month ago (for some ID that is not mine), but not yesterday. So, this is actually a slightly different problem than I suspected. My son gave me his password. I logged on. The hands are saved and viewable, but only by his ID, not when I am logged in under my ID trying to look for his hands that were played yesterday. mikemunson is the ID in question.

Steve - have you tried it in the past 2-3 days. This certainly worked a week ago. For me, it does not work today.

+nokill+ means that BBO will not detect slow play and kill the hand - the declarer/defenders can take as long as they like and the hand will proceed to completion. +silentspecs+ means that kibitzers are not allowed to talk to the table or players at the table. Sorry for almost a month delay in responding. Just now saw the question. BBO never sent me an email.

There was a time, until recently, that if you knew any ID within the world of BBO, you could go to hand records and find the history of that players play. Simply go to BBO.https://www.bridgebase.com/ and click hand records. The current process requires login (I think that has been the case for some time, possibly always), but once you login, the only history of hands that can now be viewed are your own. I don't know if this an accidentally induced flaw to be fixed, or a new 'feature' - do you know? I think it is really wrong. For, one thing, you may just have general interest in how a particular player you have followed is doing. Or they may have asked you to look at a hand. Or, much more importantly, they may be teammates on a 6-8 person team - you were sitting out, but you want to know how your team did during your sit out. Your current choices are: Never see, never know what happened Kibitz live and watch each hand as it is played Have them give you their password, so you can login as them to view the hands I think all 3 of these 'choices' are quite poor and hoping the situation can be fixed or changed.

Thanks. Very helpful - specifically answered all my questions (and one I didn't ask! - why are some blue and some gray?!!!)

BBO clearly allows you to list friends who are currently online. Is there a way to list all friends that you have ever identified as 'friends?' It seems the 'account' tab should have a 'friends' tab across the top. Currently, when I add a 'friend' it actually adds a 'follow' - the person is not considered a friend. Is there a limit for # of friends? Is there a way to 'remove' a friend? - someone who, at one time you thought you wanted in your friends list, but no longer wish to have that be the case.

Sorry for my lack of research. I have solved problem #1 by creating another ID and playing with it more. Even though 'invite' produces a list of random substitutes, I learned all I need to do is go to the bottom and type whatever name I want and they will receive an invite. Using that other ID, I created another team match and tried to "Sit!". A popup came up 'Waiting for permission' which is what I would have expected. However, on my screen (that started the team match), no permission request appeared. Clearly the concept is there and working, except I don't know how to get it to work. Where is the permission request supposed to pop up on the Director's screen?

I have established many team matches when all 8 players have been online, ready to go. I assign each a seat and start the match. Very straightforward, it works. I have tried, quite unsuccessfully, to start matches when less than 8 (say 4 out of 8 have arrived). I hoped that 1 of 2 techniques would allow me to fill the seats and let the match begin. 1 - invite. When I try to 'invite' I am given a very very long list of substitutes. What I want is a list of friends online that are now ready to play. 2 - 'Sit' - I hoped that friends could find my match, request to be seated, and I would be asked to confirm that they are allowed to sit there. When they tried, nothing happened. They could not sit. I have heard that it is possible to establish the team match without all 8 players logged on at the time, but so far my attempts at searching the forum have not found a post that explains how that is accomplished. Fortunately, I have become familiar with +nokill+ +private+ +slow+ +silentspecs+. The first time I tried (without all players seated), I wasn't aware and got the experience shown here: In addition, is it documented somewhere about what all the choices are like +private+ and what they mean?