Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your interest in the plugin. It’s a great idea and is something I had considered but did not include in the first version as the focus was on basic functionality and getting that right before any new features are added.
My only concern with importing from a spreadsheet are the following ‘hurdles’ and what to do when I hit them:
– assuming we are matching results by name, what happens when we come across a name of which there are 2 or more people with that same name in the club, which user is the result assigned to?
– how do we handle results for users not registered in the system, do we create a new user account, and what if that user later wishes to register?
They are a couple of head scratchers and it’s something I’d love to add in but I need to have a clear vision of how it will work first. Any thoughts you have would be much welcomed and thanks again for the feedback.
Conor.
Hi Conor,
Thanks for the reply – really great plugin and I now have it working on my site and looking good! Thank you indeed.
Not being a coder, I’m not sure I’m qualified to help help with the spreadsheet conundrum – If you were to implement a script to upload csv data, I guess you’d have to have strict guidelines on the layout of the data and number of columns selected from the imported data (and perhaps also provide a template csv layout for the future users). And then also perhaps have someway of registering only one result per namr. The other extra name/result would then have to be input manually?
Or use an allocated, visible registration number per name/user?
I really don’t know about the user registration conflict thing – I guess you’d have to allow a script to create the new accounts with the spreadsheet data and then, when a user tries to register an account with an existing name, have a notification come up pointing this out? Could get complicated!
I guess with a new field for registration numbers, visible for each user, you could play it that way? (obviously the reg numbers would be unique).
Thanks,
Tom
