Hi Ed
Have you considered the import/export features between SW & Excel?
It's a relatively straightforward process (if someone has the VBA skills) to:
- set up a spreadsheet with competitor name & 'race' sail number
- enter finishing positions into the spreadsheet against 'race' sail numbers
- with a small macro, find & replace 'race' sail numbers with 'championship' sail numbers
- export back into Sailwave
If you can get a laptop on the finish boat, the overall process may even be quicker than manual
input into SW
Even if it is a tad longer, you still get all the benefits of SW
Regards
Ralph
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-----Original Message-----
From: J. Edward (Ed) Muns [mailto:w0yk@msn.com]
Sent: 09 March 2005 13:19
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Rotational Sail Numbers?
Thanks for the explanation. I certainly couldn't figure out how to do this,
but wanted to be sure I wasn't overlooking a technique ... or ignorant of
some feature(s). The next time I will need to score such an event format is
late July. If I were to use new software though, I would want to have it
operational long before then to be able to test it thoroughly. This seems
like a big enough change that wouldn't fit that timeframe, but I anxiously
await the possibility if and when you find a way to incorporate it.
Best,
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Jenkins [mailto:colin@sailwave.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:32 AM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Rotational Sail Numbers?Hi Ed.
Given your context I would love to be able to accommodate you but I can't
see how to in the existing versions. THere is a seeding tool
that allocates
strings to a field based on a list in a random order which you
could use to
see the initial sailnumbers but thyat's about it. It seems like what's
required more and more is a complete competitor records for each race with
various ways of populating it... blank values assume the default record.
Lots of support requests would be handled by this. I'll think
about it some
more.Regards,
Colin J
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> From: J. Edward (Ed) Muns [mailto:w0yk@msn.com]
> Sent: 08 March 2005 17:37
> To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [sailwave] Rotational Sail Numbers?
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>
>
> We have a need in some of our Hobie Class World Championships
to score the
> event where the competitors change boats and sail numbers between
> each race.
> The boats are factory-supplied and this process appears to level
> the playing
> field.
>
> Can this be handled by Sailwave? Furthermore, can Sailwave generate the
> sail number assignments, by race, for the competitors on some
> kind of random
> or mixed-up basis. We have a custom scoring program that does
> all this, but
> I'd love to migrate to Sailwave.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Muns
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