{"id":315,"date":"2015-12-01T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=315"},"modified":"2015-12-05T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:31:06","slug":"open-competitions-changes-to-players-link-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Open Competitions &#8211; Changes to Players Link Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have amended the Players Link feature so that you can now link to an Excel spreadsheet as well as an Access database. I have also added the option to include the players&#8217; CDH lifetime ID&#8217;s as well as their names and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>This means that you will be able to link to your own database\/spreadsheet of player information that will be in the format that you are happy with (for example upper\/lower case and whether the forename or surname comes first). Once you have created the link you will find in the Start Sheet there is a drop down list associated with the players&#8217; name. If you select a player from the list their club and CDH ID will automatically be populated (although the\u00a0CDH ID&#8217;s are\u00a0only visible in the singles start sheet).<\/p>\n<p>The advantage of having the CDH ID for all competition types is that you can then use the facility to get the players&#8217; current handicaps from the CDH just before the competition starts which should save time when players are signing in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have amended the Players Link feature so that you can now link to an Excel spreadsheet as well as an Access database. I have also added the option to include the players&#8217; CDH lifetime ID&#8217;s as well as their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=315\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Competitions &#8211; Changes to Players Link Feature<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pumasoftware.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}