I run the website for a sailing class association.
The racing consists of open meetings around the country, typically
consisting of three races with one discard. The positions from each
open meeting are counted as "points" in regional series (Northern,
Southern, etc.), i.e. first place scores one point, second two
points, etc. Some open meetings count towards more than one regional
series, typically where the host club is close to a boundary.
Currently I receive open meeting results in a variety of formats, but
most typically a Word document which contains a report and a results
table, or an Excel spreadsheet. I manually produce a web page for the
open meeting report and results and also maintain a separate
spreadsheet of the regional series results which I also publish as a
web page.
I'm investigating ways in which the committee members could create
open meeting reports and results themselves (for which I'm sure
Sailwave would be entirely suitable), but also have the publishing of
the results automatically update the regional series.
Do any experienced Sailwave users have any advice on the suitability
of Sailwave for this task?
I can envisage granting restricted access to a web page which allows
a race report to be typed (or cut and paste from Word) and an XML
file from Sailwave to be uploaded. The XML could be transformed for
display alongside the open meeting report. Additionally, the
positions could be extracted and used to update data tables of
results for the area series. Is this too complicated? Is there an
easier way? Would it be possible to "merge" the positions of an open
meeting with an area series in a separate Sailwave file?
Also, if the class association were to agree to sponsor Sailwave,
would this allow use by multiple committee members, or does
sponsorship only get you one "licence"?
Sorry for the lengthy post. Sailwave looks like a great piece of
work. I look forward to your advice.
Doug