Hi Gary,
Funny you should ask today as I was just looking at what was involved to implement it last night. As I had just done the mods for Mark. I’ve been working on the automatically download of data from an online entry system and creating the Sailwave files automatically fully populated with the entries. So that users could be entering on one terminal or even their mobile phone and then at the click of a button they are in Sailwave. But as I’m not in control of the online entry system and they have been extremely slow to respond - it has delayed me - even to the extent of looking at creating an online entry system using Google forms - which may be something for the future as it would be free and an user could configure it themselves easily.
Trouble is a work full time and have a busy period at the moment at work. Hoping to have next weekend off for a family weekend (I might be in big trouble if I don’t)
I’m keen to do this as it is something I often need myself. Even one of the events I would normally be scoring this weekend could do with it.
Jon
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On 30 June 2013 07:08, gazza2290 hosieg@optusnet.com.au wrote:
Jon,
Is there likely to be any action on this request? I can’t find anything further in the thread.
Garry
— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, “gazza2290” <hosieg@…> wrote:
Jon,
The requirement is your first option from below. We would want to be able to publish the separate results for each of the 3 series on a weekly basis. We normally sail 2 races a week - one counts as a Champ Series race, the other counts as a Perp Series race, and both count as an Agg Series race. The Agg series is a handicap series using VYC yardsticks, the other 2 series are position based results.
Having to merge files and delete races on a weekly basis is pretty yuk! Our results officer is not terribly computer literate - so we need to keep it as simple as possible.
Thanks for all your help
Garry
— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, Jon Eskdale <jon@> wrote:
Hi Garry,
Just so I am clear - you would like to import a specified race from one
series to a specific race in another series.
You would like to import them as position plus codes or elapsed time plus
codes for that particular race
or do you want to specify a set of races from one series to create a new
series?
or would you prefer the ability to score selected races as an event?
I’m sure we can find a solution, but as a temporary solution don’t ignore
the merge as once you have merged it is extremely easy to delete the races
that you don’t want.
Jon
Jon Eskdale
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On 29 May 2013 11:32, gazza2290 <hosieg@> wrote:
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Guys,
Thanks for the responses. My club currently uses TopYacht for scoring, and
I want to move away from it. One function it does have is to allow you to
link the series as I described earlier. It provides the option to nominate
the series and race that the results should be taken from for the linked
(child) series. The advantage of this method is that you only need to enter
results once (in the parent series). DNC’s are not an issue because the
linked series only recognises the 10 races (or however many are linked).
In my case the champ series races can be any that you want to choose from
the Agg series, although we typically take every 2nd race as a Champ series
race. We then take every other race in the Agg series and link them into a
3rd series (Perp series). Importantly, the choice of race to link to the
child series could be completely random - non sequential. For this reason I
don’t think the Merge facility will work.
Garry
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— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, Colin Jenkins <colin@> wrote:
could have a competitor filter too - can score blocks of results then.
given the filters would be in the scoring system - just need to set up N
scoring systems and use appropriately.
Cheers,
Colin J
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Chris Gandy <chrisgandy@> wrote:
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Colin/John,
The filter Colin proposes would be ideal.
I’ve been looking to create the first and second half year series from
the
overall file, but yes your method would also work I guess.
I think the filter is the cleanest solution though as you could control
all the series using one .blw file to do all the work, whereas the
other
methods needed to do this require multiple files so in my experience
allow
for more user errors.
In our scenario, the DNC values differ depending which series. So the
full
year series will have larger DNC values, but when split out in to the
two
half year series we deleted boats which hadn’t entered any races in
that
series. Therefore once the first half year series is finalised any
competitor entering the second half wouldn’t have an entry in the first
half series. Hope that sort of makes sense.
Chris
On 28 May 2013, at 14:47, Jon Eskdale <jon@> wrote:
Hi Chris,
There is the merge faciltiy.
So if you had the first half as one file and the second half as
another.
You only have to run the merge to create the whole year series. - This
will append the second file results to the first.
This allows you to also have different titles and discard profiles
should
they change.
What happens in your scenario with DNC values? If you have them all in
one file and another boat joins the series in the second half if would
affect the results of the first half as the DNC values would change.
Jon
Jon Eskdale
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On 28 May 2013 14:24, Chris Gandy <chrisgandy@> wrote:
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Jon,
I recently had a similar issue for one of our fleets. They have a
series
result for the whole year. They also have series results for races
taking
place in the first half, and separately, the second half of the year.
The
only solution i could come up with was to save as separate files and
publish each one individually. Thats fine for the first half series,
but
means for each data entry in the overall series file to update the
second
half either means a) updating the results in the other file too or b)
updating results once but resaving file each time with a different
name.
When you publish there is a box that asks to publish certain races. Is
there any way you could add a command where when you select race
numbers in
this box it asks you to rescore based only on these races?
Chris
On 28 May 2013, at 14:07, Jon Eskdale <jon@> wrote:
Hi,
So as I understand you have an Aggregate series which all the results
go
into. And a championship series derived from 10 of the aggregate
series.
You don’t say how the championship races are selected. Also is this
done
after every race or once at the end of the series.
You can use discard profiles but without fully understanding you
selection criteria don’t know if this is what you want.
You can of course always save the aggregate series as another file and
delete the races that you don’t want
If you can supply some more details or give me a call on the number
below
Regards
Jon
Jon Eskdale
Sailwave
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07976 709777
On 28 May 2013 10:40, gazza2290 <hosieg@> wrote:
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Can you link 2 series so that one automatically picks up the results
from the primary series? ie Main series is the “Aggregate” series
with 20
races. The “Championship” series consists of 10 races from the
Aggregate
series. I want to enter results only in the Aggregate series and get
the
Championship to pick the results from the Aggregate series. Is this
possible?