Player who transferred to our Club

Niall Lucey

• 21 February 2023 08:37
• Edited

Can anybody advise on the best practice in Foireann when a player transfers from another club, when the former club has a practice of uploading to Foireann from a CSV output by a 3rd party online-registration system?

In our case it is an under-18 who has transferred to us, and the transfer has gone through with the agreement of the former club.

I suggested to the parent that they go into their Foireann family and add our club to the clubs associated with the child.  However the parent does not have access to the the child's Foireann profile because at the former club the members use one of those 3rd party providers for online registration (and of course that club admin the has to upload to Foireann).

As a short term measure, I had the parent create a family in Foireann and add a new profile in there for his child and register the child with us via Foireann.  And my plan being to now contact the other club and get them to go into Foireann and add our club to the child's profile that they admin - and then I would merge the two (with the recently added profile being primary so that the parent retains access to it via Foireann).

One concern is that the former club's pattern of bulk upload, from a CSV created by the 3rd party system, might subsequently cause them to undo (by overwriting) a change that the parent might from now on make to that child's profile via Foireann.

Of course when I contact the other club, I will discuss it with them.  But I'm just wondering here if  anybody else here has experience of this exact case.

A similar (and perhaps even more difficult to address) case would be two single code GAA clubs with a common member, where one club uses a 3rd party online system and the other uses Foireann directly.

Are we better off sticking with multiple profiles for members in cases like this?

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  Daraghfla

  • 28 February 2023 11:43

  I'm sorry but my comment is that this Forum isn't up to much. Any mods from Foireann available to help with this stuff???

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  Niall Lucey

  • 28 February 2023 15:14

  Hi @Daraghfla.
  
  It was mentioned in some webinar recently that they were planning to moderate here a bit.  But of course it is an extremely busy time of the year.
  
  To a significant extent, its up to us in all our GAA/LGFA/Camogie units to participate in here and help each other.  If this particular issue was sufficiently urgent for me then I would have raised a specific support request.  But instead I was thinking that there might be another club who might have tackled this case better than I, and from whom I (and other readers here) could learn if they posted their experience here.

  Until more clubs contribute here, it won't be up to much.  Early days though - as more clubs contribute here, there will be more answers here and more will engage and the positive feedback will work.

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