Hi Keith,
I think the first problem is that you are probably misusing the Class and Fleet fields - quite a common mistake. From the ABYC Sailwave manual
It is important to understand some basic concepts that are used in Sailwave. If you don’t understand the terminology it is easy to get confused.
Fleet – A group of boats that will sail and be scored together, they can be a one design class, or different boats using a handicap or rating system. Portsmouth, PHRF, or IRC would be a fleet made up of several different classes of boats using a handicap or rating system. Conversely Naples Sabots, or Optimists may be broken up into several different fleets, A’s, B’s, C’s etc.
Class – The type of boat all carrying the same class insignia per Rule G1.1(a). Examples are Farr 40, 49er, Snipe, Cal 20, Naples Sabot, Optimist, etc.
Division – Generally used to further divides fleets. For example, Olympic 470 Men and Women often sail in a combined fleet, and are scored combined, with the division indicating Men and Women.
Flights – A flight is a competitor attribute that can change on a per race basis. It is most commonly used in very large regattas where the fleet size precludes a single mass start. The fleet is divided into flights in accordance with Appendix LE Addendum C qualifying series. Laser Class, Formula 18 Catamaran, International Optimist Class Association (IODA) and International Naples Sabot Association (INSA) events use variations of this method for their large championships.
From this you can see that you need to have the A and B in the Fleet field not the Class Field - If you really want you can have fleets called Class A and Class B but that is a bit confusing. If you are using the class field for what is the Fleet you can use the Menu - Tools - Set competitor field to copy them all to the Fleet field.
This should then display all the competitors and also show you which fleet they are in when you enter the competitor sail no allowing you to choose.
When you say it stopped showing SailNos did you have the ignore competitors with results box ticked?
I used it on Saturday and it works except it currently doesn’t support the Alternative sailno as that was added to Sailwave after this was written. But yes it does work and has been used for many events.
If you are still having difficulties send me you blw (Sailwave file) and I’ll have a look
Jon
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On 28 May 2014 05:10, bruno-nospam@usa.net [sailwave] sailwave@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Jon,
Thanks for the reply. I had a chance to try out the Grand Prix/ Multi-lap addon and I was unable to make it work. The sail number wizard initially worked, but then stopped pulling info from the sailwave file. I have no idea why. It also didn’t seem to pull all the competitors from the .blw file even though the competitor count was accurate. I had 22 competitors and only 11 of them showed up in the front page grid.
Even without this bug, I would be unable to use it based on how it’s set up, or based on how I have sailwave set up. I have 5 starts for each race and each start can have multiple classes. We sail one start at a time and a competitor can enter 2 classes and therefore be in 2 different starts. Sailwave’s sail number wizard allowed that and showed me the sail numbers along with the class. If US 234 was in 2 classes, it would show me US 234 class A, and US 234 Class B. The add on only showed me US234 twice with no classes, so I would not know which class I was entering results for.
Do you know if anyone has used this successfully? Were you able to get it working?
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful because sailwave has been a big help to us and cut down a lot of time. It’s just that based on how we run races, there is still that manual component that takes a lot of time and is prone to human error.
thanks for the help,
Keith