[sailwave] Setting up large fleets

Martin_Bolgen · 19 May 2005 10:41

Hi, all flight crackers!

Ralph is pointing out how to register boats. Import is the solution!

We had the same amount of sailors here in Norway, two weeks ago.

All participants had to register on our website, and the output from our "online registration" gives us either a .CSV with all possible data (for spreadsheets), or just a "output to Sailwave" .csv file. The big file includes stuff like email address, date of birth, timestamp for registering and even what kind of reader used (IE, firefox...).

Also when boats registers, they gets an e-mail receipt and WE gets an e-mail to a pre-defined mail address (for backu reasons...).

Those few entering at the event is easy to handle......

I also experienced the same BUG as Ralph. But I think I solved it by first opening a "old" SW file containing all formats and setting, and then importing.... Anyway, it is a "small" job to enter the settings instead of 180 competitors. We had that for 6 classes..... Think I had to enter 5-6 boats by hand....

It works so good, that I wants everyone, even for small club regattas, to register online!

Regards
Martin

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From: "Ralph Tingle" <rat@attat.com>
Reply-To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:29:15 +0100

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Terry et al 
 
You are quite right about the time spent to set up new entrants - look at the import facility it is 
brilliant!. 
 
At the Topper event, where we had some 140 boats, the Class Association did all the hard work of 
entering details in a spread sheet before the event. All we had to do was click on a few buttons & 
the entrants were loaded into SW in seconds ;-))))))) 
 
Entering data in a spreadsheet is soooo much quicker than a bespoke piece of software - give it a 
whirl & you will not be disappointed. 
 
There is one minor problem which I came across, when the import feature lost my settings for the 
flight starts in each race (unless Colin has fixed it) but this 5 minute job to re-input the starts 
is infinitely better than an hour+++ 
 
Also, with a big General Handicap, I now have a provisional list of entrants so that I can think 'on 
the water race management' rather than get evil looks from the girls in the office when I ask for a 
competitor list before I give the briefing. 
 
Until Colin can address your suggestions, why not publish it to a spreadsheet instead of IE. 
Alternatively, you can export the whole of the data to a spreadsheet & play with it during the long, 
dark, winter nights ;-) 
 
 
Regards 
Ralph 
 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Terry [mailto:terry.home@home-it.com] 
Sent: 18 May 2005 22:52 
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [sailwave] Suggestion Boat Information + Webpage 
 
 
Entering Boat information for Races does take quite a lot of time. Stuff 
Like Boat Name, Boat Class, Rating, Helm (Owner), Club, Nationality, Notes 
etc. However not all this information is available on the published webpage. 
I would personally love to know what the specs are for boats that are doing 
well in club handicaps. 
 
I therefore suggest When you enter "Edit Competitor", an additional Tab is 
created "WebPage". On This tab a checkbox enables the field to create a 
separate page when results are published with details of that boat. (i.e. 
Photo, Type of boat, Type of Keel, Type of Motor, Whether Spinnaker or not 
and other useful stuff) 
 
I also suggest adding information collected in the ISAF SCHRS rating 
calculator to be added as another tab to "Edit Competitor" instead. Then the 
details of this can also be published on the boats webpage. (Or information 
like that collected from <a href="http://www.byronsoftware.org.uk/Sail/datsheet.htm)">http://www.byronsoftware.org.uk/Sail/datsheet.htm)</a> 
 
Finally, if a competitor enters your venue, and he has already entered a 
previous race scored in Sailwave where his webpage (as above) was published, 
then you ought to be able to simply enter the URL of the published webpage, 
to import all the competitors details into your race automatically. 
 
Just a thought 
 
Regards 
Terry 
 
 
 
 
 
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