AskFRED now supports multi-fencer user accounts. For those with only one fencer, the change is not readily noticeable. The same core workflow exists for these users.

For users who wish to have multiple fencers on their accounts, the workflow and changes are the following:

To get started, visit your settings page. There should be an area with the header "Manage My Fencer Records". By default this should be empty or have just one fencer in it.

To add another fencer, click the "Add Another Fencer" button at the bottom of this section. It will take you to a workflow similar to the one you went through when you registered your user account - searching by last name or USFA membership number. At the end, when you select or create your fencer record, will show up in the "Manage My Fencer Records" list on your settings page.

If you wish to edit your fencer's records, click the name of the fencer in this list, or click the "Edit Fencer" button. If you wish to remove this record from your account, click the "Remove" button. This will not delete the fencer record, but instead simply detach it from your user account.

Once you have multiple fencers on your account, your Dashboard area will change slightly. The main dashboard area will now become a combined view of all of your fencers. All of your fencers' upcoming registrations will be visible here. If you click the links in the sub-navigation, such as "All Past Results", this will be a list of results for ALL of your fencers.

If you wish to look at the information for only one of your fencers, you can use the Fencer Switcher, which looks like this:

If you pick one of your fencers from this dropdown, you will be taken to a dashboard view representing only the selected fencer, and the switcher then looks like this:

The links in the switcher will take you to views similar to the one in the sub-navigation, except filtered down to ONLY this fencer.

When you go to register for an event, the view you see will be slightly different, requiring you to select one of the fencers on your account first before you can register:

Previously this view was a representation of the fencer attached to your account. This view is what will show up after you select one of the multiple fencers on your account.

If you remove the connection to a fencer from your account, you will no longer see that fencer in your account. If this removal moves you down to 1 fencer, the Fencer Switcher will no longer be visible. If this removal moves you down to 0 fencers, you will be shown the original onboarding workflow again, requiring you to pick a fencer to add to your account.

If you remove a connection to a fencer, you will still see all Registrations and Payments associated with this fencer, however - just as you would if you registered a non-claimed fencer through the "search for another fencer you don't own to register" workflow in the screenshot in the previous section. These registrations are linked to your personal user account and won't go anywhere or transfer to another user account if this fencer were registered elsewhere. The event registration records will transfer (i.e., "what event am I fencing in?"), but not the payment related records. If you were to cancel or refund one of these, that fencer would have their registration records removed as you would expect.

If you're looking at your "Manage My Fencer Records" list and you see multiple copies of the exact same fencer, please reach out to us here at AskFRED support to resolve this issue. This situation can be caused by multiple causes, but whatever the cause, we want to have only one fencer record per fencer. This makes results reporting, tournament operation, you analyzing this fencer's performance/statistics and more much more difficult. Reach out to us to resolve it!