It helps a lot, Mike, thanks. And I think I'll do as you suggest and "play"
a little. What we did for the forced first place was put my time in as 10
minutes -- quick four-mile race doncha think? Ha! But that forced my first
place as a reward for working race committee. I do agree it's a slick
program -- I'll catch on. Thanks for your quick response!
Oh, and the Excel spreadsheet thing. I saved my PHRF numbers as a .csv
file as instructed, but when I tried to import it, I got an error message
saying "access denied." So I entered them manually, which was fine with
only 12 boats in so far. Will be a pain as we begin to reach the 35-40 we
normally have by mid-summer! Ah, well.
Thanks again.
Chris Sheppard
Alum Creek Sailing Assn.
Lewis Center, Ohio
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From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Mike Croker
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:08 AM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] New User
Chris
see comments below - I have assumed that you have used the New Series button
(same toolbar as Save) to set up the series and entered your competitors
using the New button:
Is there such a thing as an actual user manual? No, just the FAQ list at
http://www.sailwave.com/index.php?page=library where there is lots of useful
info.
I have the first race participants entered for our Wednesday night spring
series; however, I can't seem to enter each boat's PHRF
rating into the program. Where and how do I do this? >> double click on any
of the cells relating to the competitor in question (not under the race
columns) and enter the rating. Alternatively you could convert your Excel
SS to a .csv file in the Ratings folder - see the above link for the
required format etc. - then you should be able to pull up the rating in the
Default Rating drop down menu. You can also enter the rating on a race by
race basis - click on the relevant cell in the race column for the race in
question.
I have each boat's PHRF rating on an Excel spreadsheet. I've entered the
actual elapsed times for each boat; does the software calculate the
corrected time? How? >> Use the Score button, or Score Fleets if you have
more than one start - the start times and other race properties can be set
up by right clicking the race column heading and Edit Race
I see where it can rank all the boats per race; however, here's a tough one!
Each crew that volunteers to work race committee gets a
first place for that race. When I tried to sort with actual times plus my
first place, I got an error message stating that I couldn't sort with both
types of rankings in the column. How am I going to put each volunteer boat
in first place for that night? >> use the Scoring System button to get to
the Scoring Codes, then set up a new code e.g. VOL which has a fixed score
of '1'. When you enter that 'competitor's' results, tick the Code box and
select your VOL code. Easy!
Hope you get to like Sailwave - having struggled with monolithic Excel
sheets for years it came as a true breath of fresh air. It is very deep
though - I'd encourage you to sit a play with an example file - just push
all the buttons and explore!
It also fits on a floppy disc and will run fine on an ancient Pentium
laptop.......
Hope this helps
Mike Croker
Lancing SC
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