I scored my first ‘live’ multi-fleet regatta with sailwave on the weekend, a gold and silver fleet DN regatta in Minnesota. But I was 3,000 km away in Nova Scotia. The on-ice finish team emailed pictures of their raw results to me and I published race-by-race Sailwave results to an ftp site so they could be viewed by competitors and followers during the course of the regatta.
The worst part of the process was the ftp site. Our class WordPress site is on an ISP that will not allow ftp, so we had to contract with another ISP and set up a separate ftp site (The ‘we’ is royal – I had nothing to do with it). No big deal, but regardless of source, my luddite brain struggled at times with the ftp site. Publishing to the Sailwave Results folder looks like a more friendly solution. Two simple questions:
May I presume that I could publish interim results to the Results folder in the same way, with newer results over-writing the previous ones?
What is the longevity of results files published to the results folder?
Yes you can publish to the Sailwave results folder and yes� the
previous copy just gets overwritten.
As to Longevity on the Sailwave site, currently the oldest
results are from October 2013. I would recommend that after the
event you archive the results [PDF file and/or HTML file] to
somewhere that you have more control over, for example the class
web site when the heat of the regatta is over.
Please get in touch if you would like your own sub-folder for�
the DN Class under the Sailwave results folder.
Kind regards,
Huw
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On 09/01/2019 00:00,
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wnethercote@eastlink.ca
I scored my first �live� multi-fleet
regatta with sailwave on the weekend, a gold and silver
fleet DN regatta in Minnesota. �But I was 3,000 km away
in Nova Scotia.� The on-ice finish team emailed pictures
of their raw results to me and I published race-by-race
Sailwave results to an ftp site so they could be viewed
by competitors and followers during the course of the
regatta.
�
The worst part of the process was the
ftp site.� Our class WordPress site is on an ISP that
will not allow ftp, so we had to contract with another
ISP and set up a separate ftp site (The �we� is royal �
I had nothing to do with it).� No big deal, but
regardless of source, my luddite brain struggled at
times with the ftp site.� Publishing to the Sailwave
Results folder looks like a more friendly solution.� Two
simple ques tions:
�
May
I presume that I could publish interim results to the
Results folder in the same way, with newer results
over-writing the previous ones?
What
is the longevity of results files published to the
results folder?
�
Warren Nethercote
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Hi Warren, Thank you for your feedback.
There are many solutions - some very easy and some not so easy, but basically Sailwave can do almost anything.
You can, of course, publish to the Sailwave results folder which is extremely easy to use.
Sailwave produces an HTML file which can be viewed in a browser directly. You can upload this to a web server in many different methods. Sailwave has ftp builtin but there are many other methods that you can use.
ftp from Sailwave
publish to a file on your PC and then use third party program e.g. Core FTP Lite (Free) to transfer in any of multiple methods.
Publish to an application - this can even be a batch file which will run a batch file to upload using any application - Search the forum or contact me for more information if needed.
Publish to a pCloud public folder
The pCloud public folder is the easiest of them all although you do have a pay a small subscription to pCloud to have a public folder.
This is a copy of the file P:\Public\Euromed\OptiOC2018.html on my PC - if I update this file on my PC the pCloud software will automatically update the file at the location above.
So to publish the results from Sailwave all you need to do is to publish the results to the file P:\Public\Euromed\OptiOC2018.html on your PC and they are then live on the web.
A bonus of using pCloud is that it also keeps a backup of each version you publish so if you log into your pCloud account you can recover any previous versions
