Page 24 - ABF Newsletter February 2026

During the middle Sunday of the Summer Festival of Bridge in Canberra I gave a talk on MyABF de- velopments and future plans. Later in the week we also held a separate function for key club users and state representatives to discuss MyABF, help support new clubs and users, and the future rollout of the Masterpoint Centre functions. Thank you to all those that made the effort to attend.
User tip – filtering the MyABF calendar
During Canberra I was surprised by a friend saying his “pet hate” about MyABF was how he couldn’t narrow down what the calendar displays. I was be- mused because this has been available for well over two years now!
The MyABF calendar includes all sorts of events of all types, all levels and for all States. So it can certainly get very full if you list everything. But you don’t have to. You can filter by any or all of:
• State
• Event type (National, State, Club, Lesson, Other, etc) • Format (Face to face or various online formats)
• Specific text in the event or organising body
A future enhancement is going to expand this to target audiences as well – Open, Restricted, Novice, Mixed, Women, Senior, Youth, etc.
How do you do this? At the top of the calendar page:
Simply select any combination of what you want (a recent change means you can now include multiple selections in each area – previously you could only select one).
Once you’ve made a selection you will see a Save filters option appear (green highlight below):
Click that and these settings will now be applied next time you open the Calendar page. You can always change them at any time, you can clear them (tem- porarily), and delete them completely.
As well as (or instead of) the filter selections you can also add text to the Search Upcoming field (yellow highlight above) and the system will then only dis- play events or organising bodies including that text. This is a good way of filtering down to just things from your own club if that’s all you want to see. The Save filter function will remember any text you’ve put here as well.
What’s coming up
As already mentioned, the major focus over the next year is going to be the integration of the Master- point Centre into MyABF. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to do anything else – we always have requests for improvements to various areas coming in. As usual there are 100 of these I would like to do and time/ developer resources only permit a few to be done! But we do continuously try to improve the product for everyone.
Technical upgrade
One of the reasons we can’t spend all our time on building all the enhancements that players and clubs request is because we also have to maintain the system behind the scenes. There was an exam- ple of this in early January when we took the system down briefly to do an upgrade.
You would most likely only have noticed this if you are an early riser though! We started at 5am and everything went well so the system was back up and running by 9am. This upgrade didn’t have any visible changes for users but was a part of preparations for the masterpoint centre integration and will make it easier for us to maintain the system in future.
MYABF UPDATE with Julian Foster
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Australian Bridge Federation Ltd. Newsletter: February 2026