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7.5.2.0 (2014.03.01)

RunScore Team
  • When downloading from RunSignUp or ChronoTrack Live, people have complained that if they do a download on top of a older download, any new data such as bib numbers are wiped out. This is changed now so that if a downloaded field is blank, it will not write into the equivalent field in RunScore.
  • Andrés Alañón Vázquez reported that European style dates (dd/mm/yyyy) were not being handled properly in export and import. Fixed.
  • You can now select on a date field as if it is in YYYYMMDD format even though it might be in MMDDYY format. For example, a select on the field asking for all entrants who have a date-of-birth later than 1990, you would have a select with the condition: “GT (tab) 1990”.
  • At request of Andrés Alañón Vázquez, add a prefix capability to SMS messaging. Often the mobile phone number is the base number but, particularly in countries outside of the US and Canada, a ‘+” plus a country code must prefix the number. To implement this feature, add a new field in your RunScore database called, say, “Mobile prefix”. Then in entries.ini tell RunScore the name of this field using the new SMS Prefix Field command, e.g.

SMS Prefix field (tab) Mobile prefix

  • The method for selecting which online systems RunScore is connecting to has been changed to make things easier to use. Now, you first go to Tools/Online System to select the system (Active, ChronoTrack Live, RaceIt, RunSignUp, RTRT, Texting, XACT, ZapEvent). You can go to Online where, instead of seeing submenus for each system, you will have only the submenu for the online system you selected. This helps avoid the problem some are having of clicking on the wrong system.
  • RunSignUp support now includes a menu check item to put an “External Report” online. An “External Report” is a normal RunScore report that is rendered in JSON which RunSignUp transforms into online results.
  • The documentation in Help for uploading RunScore Results has been completely rewritten with many examples.
  • At request of Jenna Ginsberg add to Export of times:
  1. Control of time format 2. Pace and Rate 3. Field Header for Pace and Rate
  • Also at request of Jenna, add to Live Results
    1. Column headers for Rate and Pace
  • At request of Robert Youngs, make “Field Header” command work in Live Results so that you can put your own column heading on each column.
  • With help from Brian Sparacino, RunScore supports SMS (cell phone texting) provider: Twilio. They offer inexpensive texting in the U.S. and a number of other countries..
  • Made improvements to File/Import to handle dates. If the field is designated as a “Date” field, the date format specified in entries.ini will be used. This wasn’t previously the case.
  • Major change in Announce feature to include colored fields. Encouraged by Andrés Alañón Vázquez from Spain.
  • Have removed “Number of chip fields” from Preferences. You should set this in entries.ini so that it applies just to one race.
  • Added Pace and Rate to Live Results at request of Jenna Ginsberg.
  • At request of Debbie Burke, add “Sort bibs” (Alt+B) command to results. She said this will help in finding duplicates and also help in lap races. It’s pretty slick. You can Alt+B to sort by bibs and then Alt+T to sort by time and be right back to where you were.
  • Fixed some problems between RSServer and RSClient when the versions don’t match. It used to give a pop-up error on RSServer but this bound things up at the client until the server responded. Now, if there is a warning (the versions only match for the first two number) you can proceed. If there is an error (the version only match for the first number), you cannot proceed. In both cases, RSServer is none the wiser but the person on RSClient will receive the proper warning or error.
  • John Burke, requested an improvement to Live Results to handle triathlons. Done.
  • Finally implemented a suggestion of Steven Keith: That is, to enhance the Export command to include times. You include a time just like you do in a report. You can use the Minus command to compute net or gun times. You can also use the Pace command but not the Division Place. This change makes things much simpler. In many cases, if you use this new feature you will not need to use the Event to Database operation.
  • At request of Pedro Zapata Padilla, change the import of ASCII times so that if there is a duplicate bib and the time is faster than the earlier one, the faster time is used.
  • Steven Keith found that the responses to custom questions were not being downloaded from RunSignUp. A change was made by the RunSignUp developers and a change was made in RunScore so this now works.