Multiple Discard Profiles / Separately Scoring one Regatta in a Series of Severa

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I have experimented a bit with the tool and would like to start using
it instead of my own home-grown scorer. Here are 2 initial questions.
We typically run multi-week series of about 6-10 races each week. We
have winners for the day plus overall series winners.

How can I build a set of scores for the series but quickly and easily
show the results for any particular day of racing (i.e. a subset of
the series)?

Secondly, we have found appeal for a non-standard discard profile.
For any day of racing, we drop one race in five but, for the series,
we drop one race in two. How would I do this?

Thanks,
Michael Wicks
Bermuda

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Hi Michael,

I have experimented a bit with the tool and would like to start using

it instead of my own home-grown scorer. Here are 2 initial questions.
We typically run multi-week series of about 6-10 races each week. We
have winners for the day plus overall series winners.

How can I build a set of scores for the series but quickly and easily
show the results for any particular day of racing (i.e. a subset of
the series)?

Secondly, we have found appeal for a non-standard discard profile.
For any day of racing, we drop one race in five but, for the series,
we drop one race in two. How would I do this?

Thanks,
Michael Wicks
Bermuda<

The best way to do this is to have a Sailwave file for each days racing, so
that you can use the discard profile for that day and publish the results
etc; in effect a mini series itself.

You would also have a series file that would be initially created as a copy
of day 1 (or some other technique). You can then incrementally merge in day
2, 3 etc and score the whole series using a different discard profile. You
will then be able to publish day M results as a mini series and incremental
series results after N days mini series.

It sounds clumsy but its easy to create (say) day 2 from day 1 using
File+SaveAs for example (or using MyComputer) and Sailwave can have N files
open at any one time in the main frame. In fact you can select N files to
open when using File+OpenSeries. However I find it easier to create a
logical folder structure in MyComputer and open Sailwave on a series by
double-clicking on it.

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com

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Hi Colin,

I'm a new sailwave user and I'm trying to answer my questions by
going back through the forum to see if they have already been asked.
You solved one problem I had in the following post. However,
the "Help" function on the program is pretty much nonexistent and I'm
having trouble figuring how to do some simple tasks.

I understand saving each regatta as a separate series and then
putting them all together to create a, for example, Spring Series. I
am having trouble figuring out how to put them all together. As far
as I can see there is no way to "cut and paste" anything from one
series to another.

I tried the "Merge Series" option. I had open a series I had labeled
SSMYC Oct2002 (Our October regatta) and I was trying to include the
results in an overall series called SSMYC. When I typed in SSMYC
when it asked for a series to be merged with, it came back with "File
not found".

Can you explain, with the understanding that I am not extremely good
with computers, how I would go about doing this. Thanks,

Eric
Sooner State Model Yacht Club

--- In sailwave@y..., "Colin Jenkins" <colin.jenkins@m...> wrote:

Hi Michael,

>I have experimented a bit with the tool and would like to start

using

it instead of my own home-grown scorer. Here are 2 initial

questions.

We typically run multi-week series of about 6-10 races each week.

We

have winners for the day plus overall series winners.

How can I build a set of scores for the series but quickly and

easily

show the results for any particular day of racing (i.e. a subset of
the series)?

Secondly, we have found appeal for a non-standard discard profile.
For any day of racing, we drop one race in five but, for the series,
we drop one race in two. How would I do this?

Thanks,
Michael Wicks
Bermuda<

The best way to do this is to have a Sailwave file for each days

racing, so

that you can use the discard profile for that day and publish the

results

etc; in effect a mini series itself.

You would also have a series file that would be initially created

as a copy

of day 1 (or some other technique). You can then incrementally

merge in day

2, 3 etc and score the whole series using a different discard

profile. You

will then be able to publish day M results as a mini series and

incremental

series results after N days mini series.

It sounds clumsy but its easy to create (say) day 2 from day 1 using
File+SaveAs for example (or using MyComputer) and Sailwave can have

N files

open at any one time in the main frame. In fact you can select N

files to

open when using File+OpenSeries. However I find it easier to

create a

logical folder structure in MyComputer and open Sailwave on a

series by

···

double-clicking on it.

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com

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Colin, regarding my message below. I went back to fiddle with the
merging feature and found the little blue squiggle next to the box
where you enter the file name. This allowed me to "browse" the
sailwave files and when I clicked on the one I wanted to merge it
worked. So that problem is solved.

Unfortunately it created a new problem. When I merged two different
regattas, it didn't take one set of races and add those races to the
other, it just gave me 20 competitors instead of 10. And since the
competitors are all the same, each one is listed twice.

What am I doing wrong?

Eric

--- In sailwave@y..., "Eric" <Herk_Man@h...> wrote:

Hi Colin,

I'm a new sailwave user and I'm trying to answer my questions by
going back through the forum to see if they have already been

asked.

You solved one problem I had in the following post. However,
the "Help" function on the program is pretty much nonexistent and

I'm

having trouble figuring how to do some simple tasks.

I understand saving each regatta as a separate series and then
putting them all together to create a, for example, Spring Series.

I

am having trouble figuring out how to put them all together. As

far

as I can see there is no way to "cut and paste" anything from one
series to another.

I tried the "Merge Series" option. I had open a series I had

labeled

SSMYC Oct2002 (Our October regatta) and I was trying to include the
results in an overall series called SSMYC. When I typed in SSMYC
when it asked for a series to be merged with, it came back

with "File

not found".

Can you explain, with the understanding that I am not extremely

good

with computers, how I would go about doing this. Thanks,

Eric
Sooner State Model Yacht Club

--- In sailwave@y..., "Colin Jenkins" <colin.jenkins@m...> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> >I have experimented a bit with the tool and would like to start
using
> it instead of my own home-grown scorer. Here are 2 initial
questions.
> We typically run multi-week series of about 6-10 races each

week.

We
> have winners for the day plus overall series winners.
>
> How can I build a set of scores for the series but quickly and
easily
> show the results for any particular day of racing (i.e. a subset

of

> the series)?
>
> Secondly, we have found appeal for a non-standard discard profile.
> For any day of racing, we drop one race in five but, for the

series,

> we drop one race in two. How would I do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Wicks
> Bermuda<
>
> The best way to do this is to have a Sailwave file for each days
racing, so
> that you can use the discard profile for that day and publish the
results
> etc; in effect a mini series itself.
>
> You would also have a series file that would be initially created
as a copy
> of day 1 (or some other technique). You can then incrementally
merge in day
> 2, 3 etc and score the whole series using a different discard
profile. You
> will then be able to publish day M results as a mini series and
incremental
> series results after N days mini series.
>
> It sounds clumsy but its easy to create (say) day 2 from day 1

using

> File+SaveAs for example (or using MyComputer) and Sailwave can

have

···

N files
> open at any one time in the main frame. In fact you can select N
files to
> open when using File+OpenSeries. However I find it easier to
create a
> logical folder structure in MyComputer and open Sailwave on a
series by
> double-clicking on it.
>
> Regards,
> Colin
> www.sailwave.com
>
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OK, I figured out which buttons to select in order to get the races
to merge properly. My newest problem is that in creating the series
I put 10 races in the first series but only had three races scored.
When I merged the three races from the second series the program put
the second three races in as races number 11, 12, and 13. Of course
the score is correct for the two regatta series but I have all these
empty race columns sitting there.

My problem, in a nutshell, is that there does not seem to be a way to
delete empty race columns after you create the series. You can add
new races quite easily with the "new race" button, but I can't delete
unused ones.

Sorry this has been so convoluted,

Eric

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In fiddling around with the features of the program I can't find any
way to undo an action once it has been performed, other than exiting
the file without saving it. Most windows based programs have an undo
button. Any way to do this?

Eric