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8.2.8.0 (2017.11.16)

RunScore Team
  • The pop-up has been removed from the “Assign Numbers” command. If you like the pop-up, a new command, “Suppress pop-up” was implemented so the user has control over whether the pop-up appears or not.
  • Robert Youngs, Super Race Systems, requested that control characters such as new-line be removed from imported CSV file. He had the case of a race director who sent him files with the new line character embedded within a field. All control characters are now excluded during an import.
  • At Steven Keith’s suggestion several fixes to the handling of the registration_ids in race.ini were made.
  • If a participant changes their event on RunSignUp, an incremental download will put them in the right event on RunScore. When RunSignUp changes a participant’s event, it creates a new entry and marks the old one as deleted. When RunScore does an incremental download it first checks for deleted participants and then downloads any changes.
  • Steve Delahunty, RunTime Software, made a change to RunScore so that a listing file which is on auto-run, blinks to alert you to its status.
  • Rob Crawford, Sportstats, suggested an enhancement to the pre-event feature. This is to prevent participants who have finished their race from recording at later locations/points. For example, say a parent finishes their run and their time comes into an event called FINISH. Then they go to watch their kid run whose event is KIDS5K. If they get close to the kids’ finish line, they might record some passings. To prevent this, you designate FINISH to be a pre-event for KIDS5K and, in addition, check the [new] checkbox: Discard times that are later than the pre-event time.
  • Kyle Dunnack, The Last Mile Racing, asked us how to time a lap race where the first lap is shorter than the rest. We told him RunScore couldn’t handle it. This wasn’t a good enough answer for Steve Delahunty. Steve dove in and made changes to the RunScore code to allow you to enter two distances in the Lap Distance command. If there are two distances provided, the first one is the distance for the first lap and the second the distance for all subsequent laps. This is implemented for general reports , not for the Announce feature.
  • Steve Delahunty made a change to avoid problems when using RunScore in Dropbox. Problem reported by Bill Teschek.
  • At the request of Jenna Ginsburg, added a control, “No SMS Warning” to entries.ini. This will prevent a pop-up if there is an SMS problem. You would want to use this control if you are sending out SMS messages automatically and don’t want the process interrupted.
  • Josh Gerber requested that RunScore support file-load of race|result files. Done. You use Tools/Chip options to tell RunScore if the file contains bib-tags or chip-tags.
  • At the suggestion of Jon Krupa, you can chain the pre events. For example, say you set the START event as the pre event for the SWIM-IN event, the SWIM-IN event as the pre event for BIKE-OUT, and the BIKE-OUT as the pre-event for RUN-OUT. Then if a person has an early detection on the RUN-OUT mat, RunScore will check the BIKE-OUT for a time. If it finds one and that time is less than the RUN-OUT time it is rejected. If there is no RUN-OUT time, e.g. if the person missed the RUN-OUT mat, RunScore will see if the RUN-OUT event has a pre event. It does, so it will check there and so on.
  • Greg McCormick requested that he be able to change an entrant’s event in RunScore and have it reflected to that entry at the RunSignUp database. This is implemented so that all you have to do is right-click on the “event name” field and select, from the menu, “Change event”. You’ll be presented with a list of the events so you can pick the new one.
  • Eric Kramer requested that downloads from RunSignUp support corral assignments. Done.
  • At the request of several users, have made changes to RSClient so that:
  1. If RSServer is not up, you now get a beep and it keeps trying. The status line at the bottom of the screen informs the user that RSClient is still trying to connect. 2. If RSServer and RSClient are connected and RSServer is taken down or crashes, the user will hear a beep. The status line, after a few seconds, will display an “Attempt to connect” message. It will keep trying until RSServer comes up again. Note, this even works so that if, when RSServer comes back up, it is working on a different race.
  • At request of Steve Stone add counties in a RunSignUp download. This feature was added so that a number of “include” RunSignUp commands could be used in addition to counties: template_participant, corrals, est_finish, corp_teams, registration_addons, coupon_details, registration_notes, checkin_data, waiver_info, usat_waiver_info.