How to import teams and rosters from a spreadsheet

When your teams and their players are already in a spreadsheet, import them instead of adding them one by one. Each import fills one division, and nothing is created until you’ve checked a preview of what the file will do.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event.
• Importing needs a subscription, or a plan bought for this event.
• The teams aren’t locked. See how to lock parts of your event.

Prepare your file

Each row of the file is one player: their team’s name, first name and last name, then their jersey number and email if you have them. A team with ten players takes ten rows, each with the team’s name. The first row names the columns. Vorlage herunterladen, in the Aus CSV importieren menu, gives you a file with the columns already named.

• The team’s name, first name and last name are required. A jersey number is a number.
• A team name that matches a team already in the division, whatever its capitals, adds the players to that team instead of creating another.
• An email that belongs to a Dodgeball Hub account adds the player as that person. The import emails nobody.

From your spreadsheet app, save or download the sheet as a CSV file.

Steps

1. In your event’s planner, click Anmeldungen in the sidebar.

   

2. Click Aus CSV importieren above the list of the division the teams go to.

   

3. Click CSV-Datei hochladen and choose your file. To paste the file’s contents instead, click CSV-Daten einfügen.

   

4. Check that each field is matched to the right column of your file. Teamname, Vorname and Nachname are required. A field with no column shows Nicht importieren and stays empty. Click Weiter.

   

5. The preview lists the file’s teams. Neues Team creates the team. Stimmt mit bestehendem Team überein adds its players to the team of that name already in the division. Mehrere Teams stimmen mit diesem Namen überein asks you to pick which, or Als neues Team erstellen. A new team the division has no room for is marked Wird auf die Warteliste gesetzt.

   

6. A row with a problem, such as a missing name, a jersey number that isn’t a number or an email that isn’t valid, is flagged Beheben Sie diese Zeile oder schließen Sie sie aus, um fortzufahren and left unticked. Point at the flag to see what’s wrong. Fix the row in your file and upload it again, or leave it out. A player already on a matched team is marked Bereits in diesem Team and left unticked too, so importing the same file twice adds nobody twice.

   

7. Type a missing jersey number in the Trikot-Nr. column if you have it, and untick any row you’d rather leave out.

   

8. Click Importieren. It stays greyed out while a ticked row is flagged, or while a team that matches several teams waits for your choice.

   

9. The summary counts the teams created and updated, and the players added or linked to their accounts. If some couldn’t be imported, Fehlerbericht herunterladen lists them with the reason. Click Fertig.