[steve2005]

How about an Alert Manager? It would work like the Chat Manager does for chat.

that way you wont have to endlessly type "could be as short as 2♣"
especially useful if you have lots of artificial bids and play speedball

[RunemPard]

You can use the full disclosure provided by BBO to alert bids automatically. If you are only concerned about alerted opening bids/basic reply bids, then this is pretty quick and easy. FD will automatically alert your bids based on what you put in for the meaning. There is a sub-forum below this one a little ways that is designated for it.

[steve2005]

RunemPard, on 2013-May-08, 13:18, said:

You can use the full disclosure provided by BBO to alert bids automatically. If you are only concerned about alerted opening bids/basic reply bids, then this is pretty quick and easy. FD will automatically alert your bids based on what you put in for the meaning. There is a sub-forum below this one a little ways that is designated for it.

Lately the ACBL directors are saying full disclosure card does not take the place of an alert. and could face penalty for not alerting.
reason full disclosure "descriptions" do no show up as alerts when look at the board after it has been played. the director says he cant see the alert. and lastly the description sometimes doesn't show up for opposition(I don't see how that is possible but that's what director said)

from my stand point a full disclosure card is potentially a lot of work and I think it is unfair because your partner sees the description which doesn't happen when partner alerts his bid

[ArtK78]

I absolutely loathe the full disclosure card. It is one thing to be alerted and explained bids that need alerts and explanations. It is another to have your bidding screen covered with an explanation of a standard 1♣ opening bid and routine responses.

One gets so desensitized to seeing the explanations for run-of-the-mill ordinary calls that when a call that is unusual comes along, you don't notice it.

I am completely in favor of taking the full disclosure program and burying it at sea.

Question: Does the partner of the bidder really see the explanations provided by the full disclosure card? In that case, burial at sea is too good for the full disclosure program. It should be drawn and quartered.

[barmar]

ArtK78, on 2013-May-10, 13:36, said:

Question: Does the partner of the bidder really see the explanations provided by the full disclosure card? In that case, burial at sea is too good for the full disclosure program. It should be drawn and quartered.

By default, yes, but I think there are ways to disable it.

[steve2005]

barmar, on 2013-May-11, 12:04, said:

By default, yes, but I think there are ways to disable it.

there is no option to disable in the web based bbo.

in the older windows version of bbo there is an option to disable, but it doesn't work. (ive tried it for some time three years ago)