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When Players aren’t going to play

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Soccer

If you get a note saying someone doesn’t want to play:

Get email from the parents or the participant. You can’t just take the coach’s word
Choose in Quick clicks and assign participant and find the team, click on the person and unassign
Now reject the player
Select the main folder for your registration event
Choose EDIT / FIND [...]

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Proving Scholarships

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Capitol Hill Soccer does provide scholarships for children who want to play for whom the registration would create difficulties for the families. Here’s the process in Bonzi:

The parents need to register, provide proof of age and so forth
They should register with a pay by check
Email registrar explaining the circumstances

If approved, then the registrar comps the [...]

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Unassigning players

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

More soccer entries, if someone doesn’t want to play after they are registered and assigned,

Send an email to the parents via find member
Wait until you get email from the parents as you can’t just change things
First find their team, click on the league, select the fields last name, first name and assignment, then choose Participants/Detailed [...]

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Merging records in Bonzi

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Bonzi is a quite picky about there only being one entry for each kid. Makes sense. The problem is that over the years, you can logon, enter a kid. Forget your login and create another entry, hence two records with the same child. There is a Member/Merge function, where you can type in a last [...]

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Simple Phone

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Jon and my parents have both asked me about a simple phone that isn’t complicated or smart like an iPhone or a Blackberry, my two current recommendations. In looking at this, the main criteria are:

Big screen. So you can see the numbers you are dialing (most folks at this level won’t be using an address [...]

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