I like the new FlightsImage effect in Sailwave v2.38, especially used in conjunction with the “Publish starts in separate columns” option…
As you can see, in this example of a round-robin qualifying series, it provides an instant visual clue as to which pair of colours is in each start.
However, if we are using Sailwave to score a Q/F event in a single file (ILCA-style) as per this example, it would be better if the Flight images didn’t appear on the final series races as they are irrelevant at that stage and potentially confusing for anyone not closely involved in the event.
So, my suggested enhancement would be for the FlightsImages effect to only apply the images to the Q races. If there are scenarios where the images might be useful on F races, perhaps we could have a separate “FlightsImagesQonly” effect?
@Sailwave do you happen to know off the top of your head whether the HTML meta data differentiates between Q and F races? If so, it might be quite a ‘simple’ enhancement? I know… it’s never that simple.
Cheers,
Neil
Neal,
This was discussed a week ago and there are multiple ways to remove the flight assignments from the Final series races, but Jon had the easiest method. If you assign a flight colour of “none” or any other non colour to the boats in the final series races the dots will disappear.
Peter
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Brilliant, thanks Peter - that’s obvious when you point it out! I was using the “…same flight for all races (unusual)” setting on the competitors so I was ‘subconsciously’ adding a flight colour for the F races. It looks like I’m able to uncheck that setting BEFORE adding the F races and all is well. It needs to be done before, otherwise I’ve got 100 sailors with the flight colour already set (hard to remove in bulk I suspect).
As an aside, I’ve discovered that the “…same flight for all races (unusual)” setting allows me to import the pre-populated Flight column (for all races) within my competitors CSV import. Without this setting checked the column is rejected (understandably).
I’m doing the flight assignment that way as I wasn’t sure whether the “Flight assignments…” tool was able to do the repeating Y-B-R-G-G-R-B-Y flight assignment for all competitors/races? I have the competitors ranked in the order I want, if there’s a way to get Sailwave to do that?
Thanks,
Neil
Hi Neil,
You can remove the bulk but setting it to “none” with the flight allocation tool
if you have them but if you can avoid setting the flights for the final races then that is even better
Yes the Flight Assignments tool can do the repeating … for all the competitors/races
Just select all competitors and the races you wish to apply the flights to.
Regards
Jon
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