X-Club Deals for 2016

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 07/12/2015 - 18:27

The new season's deals have been available for some time. If yours is a non-Compass club requiring the deals please use the Contact form to request them in the usual form.

Compass clubs now have the ability to access their deals on demand using the newly-released Dealer Assist (DA) module within Compass scoring.

The new work flow for dealers will be like this:

  1. Rostered dealer opens Compass and chooses More Menu Items ... from the side menu strip.
  2. Selects Dealer Assist to see a screen like this showing the current Week Number and any deal files already retrieved for future weeks. On start-up, Compass will have automatically loaded the files for the next two to three weeks:
  3. Dealer highlights a session and clicks on Deal Hands Now. Dealer4 opens automatically with the file already loaded. Proceed as normal with the dealing.
  4. When finished the dealer can click on Print PDFs to automatically print Handrecords and/or Traveling Score Sheets.

Also:

  • {extra cool!) If your club wishes to put the sponsors' or competition names at the top of the handrecords it has just got wa-ay simpler to do that. Highlight a session and click to Add Heading to Hand Record PDF. The handrecord appears - position the cursor where you want the text to appear, right-click and paste. Bingo! By double-clicking in the box you get to edit the text - font style, font size, wording - if you want. Close and save then print. Magical stuff, Bob!
  • Should you wish to retrieve any deal files not on view you can click on Get New Hand Files at the bottom of the screen to make this screen pop up:

  • You can select any of the next month's weekly hand sets to be uploaded and Compass will position them ready for dealing.
  • You can opt to reduce the number of deals from the standard 36 to some lower number you might wish to deal. The screen will show the new number of hands in the selected file.
  • There is also an option to split off a section of hands if, say, you want 24 for a teams event with another 12 to be used in a possible triangle should you wind up with an odd number of teams.

It's that easy. No more hunting round for the deal files or the handrecords. It's quite intuitive and, what's more, it does the housework! Passed weeks' files are archived out of the line of fire and the recommended folder structure is maintained automatically. Full and complete details may be seen in programmer Bob Fearn's video - click here. Some initial setup will be necessary. Recommend you give it a go then get in touch with us by using the Contact form on this site if you need assistance.