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. 下載範本, in the 從CSV匯入 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 報名 in the sidebar.

   

2. Click 從CSV匯入 above the list of the division the teams go to.

   

3. Click 上傳CSV檔案 and choose your file. To paste the file’s contents instead, click 貼上CSV資料.

   

4. Check that each field is matched to the right column of your file. 隊伍名稱, 名字 and 姓氏 are required. A field with no column shows 不匯入 and stays empty. Click 下一步.

   

5. The preview lists the file’s teams. 新隊伍 creates the team. 與現有隊伍相符 adds its players to the team of that name already in the division. 有多支隊伍符合此名稱 asks you to pick which, or 建立為新隊伍. A new team the division has no room for is marked 將被加入候補名單.

   

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 請修正此列或將其排除以繼續 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 已在此隊伍中 and left unticked too, so importing the same file twice adds nobody twice.

   

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

   

8. Click 匯入. 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, 下載問題報告 lists them with the reason. Click 完成.