[rmunson1]

There was a time, until recently, that if you knew any ID within the world of BBO, you could go to hand records and find the history of that players play.
Simply go to BBO.https://www.bridgebase.com/   and click hand records. The current process requires login (I think that has been the case for some time, possibly always), but once you login, the only history of hands that can now be viewed are your own.  I don't know if this an accidentally induced flaw to be fixed, or a new 'feature' - do you know?

I think it is really wrong.  For, one thing, you may just have general interest in how a particular player you have followed is doing.  Or they may have asked you to look at a hand.  Or, much more importantly, they may be teammates on a 6-8 person team - you were sitting out, but you want to know how your team did during your sit out.  Your current choices are:

• Never see, never know what happened
  
• Kibitz live and watch each hand as it is played
  
• Have them give you their password, so you can login as them to view the hands

I think all 3 of these 'choices' are quite poor and hoping the situation can be fixed or changed.

[steve2005]

You are wrong you can view other users hand records.
Just change the username in the hand look-up form.

[rmunson1]

Steve - have you tried it in the past 2-3 days. This certainly worked a week ago. For me, it does not work today.

[paulg]

rmunson1, on 2020-May-04, 07:27, said:

There was a time, until recently, that if you knew any ID within the world of BBO, you could go to hand records and find the history of that players play.
Simply go to BBO.https://www.bridgebase.com/ and click hand records. The current process requires login (I think that has been the case for some time, possibly always), but once you login, the only history of hands that can now be viewed are your own. I don't know if this an accidentally induced flaw to be fixed, or a new 'feature' - do you know?

I can find the hands you've played in the last week, although none in the last two days.

Perhaps some tournaments that you are expecting are not getting saved?

[rmunson1]

paulg, on 2020-May-04, 07:55, said:

I can find the hands you've played in the last week, although none in the last two days.

Perhaps some tournaments that you are expecting are not getting saved?

Actually, I was looking for hands that my son played. Like you, I can see hands from a month ago (for some ID that is not mine), but not yesterday. So, this is actually a slightly different problem than I suspected. My son gave me his password. I logged on. The hands are saved and viewable, but only by his ID, not when I am logged in under my ID trying to look for his hands that were played yesterday. mikemunson is the ID in question.

[diana_eva]

Some hand records are protected and only displayed to the players involved (virtual club hands, some types of robot hands, some types of acbl robot)

[rmunson1]

diana_eva, on 2020-May-04, 08:20, said:

Some hand records are protected and only displayed to the players involved (virtual club hands, some types of robot hands, some types of acbl robot)

Thank you. That answers my question. Much better than I feared.

[rachelelis]

This is actually something i have been asking BBO. Its clear that you can put in a colleagues user name and you will be able to see some hands. But there is a message that says some hands are not shown for security purposes. The previous commentator indicates that this is an intended feature. i was hoping it was a problem with my user profile and I could fix this. Someone is instructing me and it would be far easier for him to view my hands than me exporting the hands to him. He can see hands we played together, and apparently some robot stuff but definitely not other ACBL virtual club games and apparently insta tournaments. I cant imagine why this is protected if they allow some things to be viewed and it definitely is a limitation for teaching or review. Wish BBO help could read these comments and consider whether these restrictions make sense

[barmar]

As stated earlier, we currently restrict the following:

1. Robot duplicate tourmanents, because these are used to create instant tournaments, and we don't want users to be able to search for the previous play of their tournament.
2. ACBL virtual club games, because ACBL requested this. They want ACBL Live for Clubs to be the primary repository of these games.