Partnership Desk Help

If you are able to login to the site, you can use the Partnership Desk.

The page is intended to help players seeking partners or teammates from the club for play either at the club or elsewhere. Entries can be removed manually by the player who created them. Otherwise, entries will be removed automatically when the date of the event has passed.

To do so:

1. Login to the club site
2. Click the Partnership Desk menu item
3. To request a partner or teammate at the club or a player from the club for a tournament, fill out and submit the request form.
   1. The entry automatically contains your name.
   2. Enter your status as LM (Life Master) or NLM (Non-Life Master, but 100+ masterpoints) or 99er (under 100 masterpoints) from the selection box.
      1. The selection box initially assumes NLM.
      2. The selection box remembers your status as entered for future use.
   3. Enter the date of the event. Invalid dates are rejected with the message, "You entered an invalid date."
   4. Optionally, enter an event name of up to 128 characters.
      1. For pairs games at the club, you can leave this field blank unless you wish to specify which 499er or Open on days with multiple games.
      2. For tournament events or other games, you should describe the tournament and session, e.g. Gold Rush Pairs at Gatlinburg, Tues-Wed.
   5. Upon submittal, the player and associated information will be listed under the heading "Players Seeking Partners or Teammates" below the data entry form. The requesting player's telephone numbers and email address from the player database will be attached to the listing.
   6. Players who have entered requests will see a Remove button to the left of each of their entries.
4. People seeking partners or teammates should check the listing and contact the listed player by phone or email.
5. An email announcing new requests can be sent out to anyone who has adjusted their Email Preferences to allow them to receive emails.
1. Email Preferences allow for you to control exactly who your partnership requests could be sent to by use of either the Favorable (like opting in) or Unfavorable (like opting out) lists.
2. Email Preferences also allow for you to control exactly which partnership requests you agree to receive by use of either the Favorable or Unfavorable lists.
3. Even though the default for sending emails is "Send Email Except to Unfavorable", only players who are accepting emails will receive one.
4. If you don't ever want to receive any emails from the Partnership Desk (PD), you do not need to do anything, because the default for receiving emails is to "Receive Email from No One".
1. If you want to receive email notifications when PD requests are created, you must select one of the other three options.
2. If you select "Receive Email from Favorable Only", you should put those people on your Favorable list that you wish to receive PD emails from; otherwise, you will still get no emails.
5. To stop sending yourself email notifications of your own PD requests, you can add yourself to the Unfavorable list and choose either (or both) "Send Email Except to Unfavorable" or "Receive Email Except from Unfavorable", because in that case you are both the sender and the receiver.
6. When you have secured a partner or teammate, please remove your request by clicking the Remove button to the left of your request in the table. If not removed by the player, the system will remove the request after the event date has passed.