Database Player
Overview
A database player is an entity representing a physical person that can be reused across multiple tournaments and leagues.
In standard tournaments, every
tournament player on the roster is associated with a database player.
A database player is contained in and managed by a player
database.
The properties of a database player are visible in the player database panel, the database player
properties designer and the tournament
player properties designer.
Attributes
The attributes of a database player include:
- Address1: The first line of the player's address.
- Address2: The second line of the player's address.
- Age: Calculated age based on their birthday and today's date.
- Audio: The audio clip associated with this player. Can be used by alerts.
- Avatar: The image associated with this player. Can be used by alerts.
- Birthday: The player's birth date.
- City: The city in which the player lives.
- Clock Operator: Whether or not the player is capable of operating the software. Used by the seating wizard to seat a capable person near the software.
- Country: The country in which the player lives.
- Display Name: The player's name as it will appear on the console. Can be free-form text or based on a pattern. If it is based on the pattern, it is read-only.
- Display Name Pattern: A pattern for automatically setting the player's display name.
- Email1: An email address for the player.
- Email2: An email address for the player.
- Email3: An email address for the player.
- Email4: An email address for the player.
- First Name: The player's first name.
- Full Name: The player's full name (calculated)
- ID: The unique user-visible ID for the player. You can modify this ID, but it must be unique within the player database. This can be used as the player's league ID if you wish.
- Last Name: The player's last name.
- Nickname: The player's nickname.
- Phone1 Number: A phone number for the player.
- Phone1 Type: A description of the phone type. (home, cell, etc.)
- Phone2 Number: A phone number for the player.
- Phone2 Type: A description of the phone type. (home, cell, etc.)
- Phone3 Number: A phone number for the player.
- Phone3 Type: A description of the phone type. (home, cell, etc.)
- Phone4 Number: A phone number for the player.
- Phone4 Type: A description of the phone type. (home, cell, etc.)
- ZipPostalCode: The player's zip code
Note that most of these attributes are optional. The only attributes that you really must fill in are ID, First Name and Last Name.
See also