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. Descargar una plantilla, in the Importar desde CSV 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 Inscripciones in the sidebar.

   

2. Click Importar desde CSV above the list of the division the teams go to.

   

3. Click Subir un archivo CSV and choose your file. To paste the file’s contents instead, click Pegar datos CSV.

   

4. Check that each field is matched to the right column of your file. Nombre del equipo, Nombre and Apellido are required. A field with no column shows No importar and stays empty. Click Siguiente.

   

5. The preview lists the file’s teams. Equipo nuevo creates the team. Coincide con un equipo existente adds its players to the team of that name already in the division. Varios equipos coinciden con este nombre asks you to pick which, or Crear como equipo nuevo. A new team the division has no room for is marked Quedará en lista de espera.

   

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 Corrige esta fila o exclúyela para continuar 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 Ya está en este equipo and left unticked too, so importing the same file twice adds nobody twice.

   

7. Type a missing jersey number in the N.º de camiseta column if you have it, and untick any row you’d rather leave out.

   

8. Click Importar. 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, Descargar informe de problemas lists them with the reason. Click Hecho.