[sailwave] Re: Importing results in V 1.41

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Colin;
One of our club members has a side business of timing sporting events. He
started with Alpine Skiing and has branched into timing of mountain bike,
road bike, running and now sailing events. He has developed a lot of ideas
to ensure the accuracy of timing. At one regatta last year he used a
program that recorded the time of day each time a button was pushed. It was
very easy for the race committee to push a button for each boat crossing the
line even when some sail numbers were missed. We also had other members of
the Race Committee recording time of day and sail numbers on our traditional
paper race forms. There were 95 boats at the regatta so it was inevitable
that some sail numbers were missed in close finishes. The sequential list
of finishing times was compared with the hand written times to find where
sail numbers were missed.

It would be really slick if we could import the list of finishing times into
Sailwave and have them sequentially pop into the time of finish window in
the scoring by sail number routine. Most scoring errors are due to finish
time typos. Being able to import a list of finish times would greatly speed
up the scoring process and at the same time eliminate many errors. Is this
modification practical?

Tom Liston
734/449-8140

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From: "sailwave2" <sailwave2@yahoo.co.uk>
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Importing results in V 1.41
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 5:51 AM

Hi Colin,

I am working on improving the import facilities as we speak; they are
too restrictive an unintuitive as they stand. I have promised them
to somebody by the end of next week at the latest. When done you'll
be able to import as required. To forewarn you; you'll need commas
between the fields.

Regards,
Colin J

--- In sailwave@y..., Colin Beckmann <cgbeckmann@r...> wrote:

The club that I race at has a computer we use on the water to

record

elapsed times. The end result is similar to
boat name Finish Elapsed Corrected
Boat 1 01:54:58 01:54:58 02:15:46
;; ;; ;;
Boat 10 01:29:47 01:24:47 01:17:39

We can put out these times in any format text file we choose. Can

we use

Sailwave to import these results, thereby negating the need to type

in

manually?

Thanks
Colin

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Hi Tom,

The import system is currently undergoing a revamp (current major
task); you will be able to import finish times when it's done, but
they'll go straight into the results at present. I see what you mean
though and could fiddle along these lines later. ETA for revamped
import is end week 1 April. CJ.

--- In sailwave@y..., "Tom liston" <tiliston@c...> wrote:

Colin;
One of our club members has a side business of timing sporting

events. He

started with Alpine Skiing and has branched into timing of mountain

bike,

road bike, running and now sailing events. He has developed a lot

of ideas

to ensure the accuracy of timing. At one regatta last year he used

a

program that recorded the time of day each time a button was

pushed. It was

very easy for the race committee to push a button for each boat

crossing the

line even when some sail numbers were missed. We also had other

members of

the Race Committee recording time of day and sail numbers on our

traditional

paper race forms. There were 95 boats at the regatta so it was

inevitable

that some sail numbers were missed in close finishes. The

sequential list

of finishing times was compared with the hand written times to find

where

sail numbers were missed.

It would be really slick if we could import the list of finishing

times into

Sailwave and have them sequentially pop into the time of finish

window in

the scoring by sail number routine. Most scoring errors are due to

finish

time typos. Being able to import a list of finish times would

greatly speed

up the scoring process and at the same time eliminate many errors.

Is this

modification practical?

Tom Liston
734/449-8140

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>From: "sailwave2" <sailwave2@y...>
>To: sailwave@y...
>Subject: [sailwave] Re: Importing results in V 1.41
>Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 5:51 AM
>

>Hi Colin,
>
>I am working on improving the import facilities as we speak; they

are

>too restrictive an unintuitive as they stand. I have promised

them

>to somebody by the end of next week at the latest. When done

you'll

>be able to import as required. To forewarn you; you'll need

commas

>between the fields.
>
>Regards,
>Colin J
>
>--- In sailwave@y..., Colin Beckmann <cgbeckmann@r...> wrote:
>> The club that I race at has a computer we use on the water to
>record
>> elapsed times. The end result is similar to
>> boat name Finish Elapsed Corrected
>> Boat 1 01:54:58 01:54:58 02:15:46
>> ;; ;; ;;
>> Boat 10 01:29:47 01:24:47 01:17:39
>>
>> We can put out these times in any format text file we choose.

Can

>we use
>> Sailwave to import these results, thereby negating the need to

type

>in
>> manually?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Colin
>
>
>
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Tom,

We have club member who has written a very similar utility in that every
press of a button records a time. Later against this time can be entered
the event associated with it, e.g. up AP, up Individual Recall, Class & Sail
# finish.

So having a mechanism, e.g. CSV file format, that could import finish
information into SailWave would be most useful. Our time recording software
does not output a start time as well so we would welcome a mechanism in
SailWave to allow the definition of start times for all boats competing or
if split into Fleets the start times for the Fleets.

Others thoughts welcomed.
Regards,
Huw

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom liston [mailto:tiliston@chartermi.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:23 PM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Re: Importing results in V 1.41

Colin;
One of our club members has a side business of timing sporting events. He
started with Alpine Skiing and has branched into timing of mountain bike,
road bike, running and now sailing events. He has developed a lot of ideas
to ensure the accuracy of timing. At one regatta last year he used a
program that recorded the time of day each time a button was pushed. It was
very easy for the race committee to push a button for each boat crossing the
line even when some sail numbers were missed. We also had other members of
the Race Committee recording time of day and sail numbers on our traditional
paper race forms. There were 95 boats at the regatta so it was inevitable
that some sail numbers were missed in close finishes. The sequential list
of finishing times was compared with the hand written times to find where
sail numbers were missed.

It would be really slick if we could import the list of finishing times into
Sailwave and have them sequentially pop into the time of finish window in
the scoring by sail number routine. Most scoring errors are due to finish
time typos. Being able to import a list of finish times would greatly speed
up the scoring process and at the same time eliminate many errors. Is this
modification practical?

Tom Liston
734/449-8140

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From: "sailwave2" <sailwave2@yahoo.co.uk>
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Importing results in V 1.41
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 5:51 AM

Hi Colin,

I am working on improving the import facilities as we speak; they are
too restrictive an unintuitive as they stand. I have promised them
to somebody by the end of next week at the latest. When done you'll
be able to import as required. To forewarn you; you'll need commas
between the fields.

Regards,
Colin J

--- In sailwave@y..., Colin Beckmann <cgbeckmann@r...> wrote:

The club that I race at has a computer we use on the water to

record

elapsed times. The end result is similar to
boat name Finish Elapsed Corrected
Boat 1 01:54:58 01:54:58 02:15:46
;; ;; ;;
Boat 10 01:29:47 01:24:47 01:17:39

We can put out these times in any format text file we choose. Can

we use

Sailwave to import these results, thereby negating the need to type

in

manually?

Thanks
Colin

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