Is they any intention of making Sailwave a multi user program, or writing a web based version? We use dropbox to hold the .blw files. The ideal would be that the Race Officer on the committee boat can enter results meanwhile back in the race office late entries could be dealt with, corrections to previous days results made and printed etc.
Dropbox is not really a realtime solution and does not handle locking any suggestions?
We are trialling another web based system but it isn’t quite there yet.
Philip Henson POFROC (Port of Fowey Race Organising Committee)
Hi Philip,
I was discussing this recently with one of your Colleagues at the RYA Race officers meeting in Birmingham.
There are several solutions which could allow this.
There are some third-party apps which run on an Android tablet that allow you to enter results.
One of these app can be populated with the competitors from Sailwave and the results entered produce a CSV file which can be imported into Sailwave. Recent versions of Sailwave allow races to be created within Sailwave from these files and perform error checking.
So with this solution, you would have Sailwave running in the office and a tablet on the committee boat to enter results. You can save the results on the committee boat to a dropbox file which the office can import, and publish.
Alternatively, you could Sailwave running on a server and have RDP access to it. Sailwave does support messaging to remotely interact with it, though to get exactly what you want may require some development. As you correctly say it does require locking. You can’t be in the process of publishing results and still have someone entering results. Hosting Sailwave remotely does incur some cost so it is not for everyone.
Give me a call and we can discuss a solution for you.
Jon
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