Posting links to my hands

[inquiry]

As almost all of us know, bridge hands in myhands remain there for a few months and then go away. If you are going to post a link to a hand in my hand, you have two options. The first is to post the link as you find in the myhand database. The llnk looks something like this:

 

www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?myhand=M-6646646-1257067933

 

As far as I can determine the last number is unix time/date stamp. The first number is something else, maybe the hand number (although I can assure you there are way, way more than 6.6 million hands, even in this year).

 

The problem with the above web address, is that a few weeks or months from now, that link will become broken. A better solution is to click on the link to call up the hand in your default browser, then copy the link. In this case the full hand is contained in link information, it will look like this...

 

www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?lin=pn|fred,ghampson,brad,greco|st||md|4S47JAH4JD39C456QK%2CS368TQH89DKAC279T

%2CSKH35KAD24678QC8J%2C|rh||ah|Board%206|sv|e|mb|p|mb|1C|mb|p|mb|1D|mb|p|mb|1S|an|unbal|

mb|p|mb|2H|mb|p|mb|2N|mb|p|mb|3N|mb|p|mb|p|mb|p|pc|S3|pc|SK|pc|S9|pc|S4|pc|C8|pc|C3|pc|CK|

pc|C2|pc|D9|pc|DK|pc|D2|pc|DJ|pc|C7|pc|CJ|pc|CA|pc|C4|pc|S5|pc|SA|pc|ST|pc|H3|pc|D3|pc|DA|pc|D4|pc|

D5|pc|SQ|mc|9|

 

Then you can use the http:// tab to make a PERMANENT hand link that will work forever (not up to a few month).

 

 

This link has the full hand record as shown above

 

This link has the data in the http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer...6646-1257067933 format and is good for only a few months

[barmar]

Maybe you could offer a PermaLink feature in myhands, that would generate a TinyURL-style link that could be posted more easily.

[Hanoi5]

So, is the myhands feature a joke? When did this happen? Is there ANY way to retrieve the information from hands played, say, couple of years ago?

[hotShot]

So, is the myhands feature a joke? When did this happen? Is there ANY way to retrieve the information from hands played, say, couple of years ago?

You use the Windows client and have an automatic local copy of your hands .....

 

This will make me hang on to the windows client as long as possible.

[inquiry]

So, is the myhands feature a joke? When did this happen? Is there ANY way to retrieve the information from hands played, say, couple of years ago?

This is how it has always been. If you are really wanting your hands from years past, bridgebrowser has them if you have access to that. Someday perhaps, the older hands will available online from bridge base itself, but there is not a lot of demand for the older ones.

 

If you are using the flash version, you can download your hands into a single file in just a few seconds using the free bridge-captain dummy dummy solver that can be found at the www.bridgecaptain.com website.

[uday]

There isn't really any real demand for the older hands. We have most of them, going back to 2004 or so. Someday we'll put them up but it is an unwieldy (for me) amt. of data and there always seems to be something better to do .

[jandrew]

Inquiry's method (OP above) of creating a permant link works only for single hands.

 

I save the link to a whole tournament (typically of 15 tables with 12 hands at each) and publish that link on our club's website as a service to the players who enter the tournament.

 

I am sure that :

many look at the data in the first few days,

some look in the next couple of weeks.

 

I have never had a request for the data after a couple of months, after it has disappeared.

 

If that old data becomes available - then OK

If not - then I have other things to worry about.

 

jandrew

[inquiry]

Inquiry's method (OP above) of creating a permant link works only for single hands.

 

I save the link to a whole tournament (typically of 15 tables with 12 hands at each) and publish that link on our club's website as a service to the players who enter the tournament.

 

I am sure that :

many look at the data in the first few days,

some look in the next couple of weeks.

 

I have never had a request for the data after a couple of months, after it has disappeared.

 

If that old data becomes available - then OK

If not - then I have other things to worry about.

 

jandrew

My method was for posting hands here, in this forum. Using that method, if someone reads a post a year or two later, the hand is still available. These are always single hands, i was just comparing the two ways you can post links to them.