99 posts tagged with "legacy"

• Add support for registration site Eventbrite.
• Can download by Event (RunSignUp) or by Race (ChronoTrack Live) or by Activity (ZapEvent).
• Made a lot of enhancements to the Announce feature.

• 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.

• Latest stable version.
• After many requests, Live Results can now handle different size fonts.
• Have removed Active.com support for uploading results because this is no longer supported by Active.com.
• Jon Krupa asked for controls for using RunScore with two monitors. The problem was if you last used RunScore on one monitor and then removed that monitor, you could no longer access RunScore because it thought it was being displayed on the ghost monitor. Fixed.
• Made a change to Ipico support. Their new controller adds a few comment lines to the exported file. These lines start with the ‘~’ character. RunScore now removes lines that start with ‘~’. Problem identified by Kip Sloan
• Had a request by Carl Magnuson to allow the selection of “Bib ID” or “Chip ID” to be made in Entries.ini in addition to being able to make it from the Tools/Chip options menu. This has been implemented as “Bib or Chip”. Example: Bib or Chip Bib or Bib or Chip Chip
• Implement the new NCAA cross-country tie-breaker rule: “Ties in team scoring shall be broken by comparing the place finish of the five scoring members of the tied teams. The team with the majority of winning places shall be awarded the higher place.” Thanks to Pat Leone for telling us about the new rule. To use the NCAA rule, add the line: “Team Tie Breaker (tab) NCAA”.
• At request of Jenna Ginsberg, have added “Multiply” command to work just like the SUM command but instead of adding together the contents of several fields, it multiplies them. Can also multiply by a constant number with the “Multiply By” command.
• At request of Carl Magnuson, have extended the concept of multiple chip fields for systems that use bib tags. That is, if you set the number of chip fields (in Preferences or in entries.ini), to, say, 2, then if RunScore cannot find the bib tag in the bib field, it checks the next search field. But there are two cases. If in Tools/Chip options you set for Bib Tag, it starts looking in the bib field. If, on the other hand, you set for ChipTag, then the search begins in the first search field after the bib field.
• At request of Denika Voget, add new Time Format: 0H:MM:SS.01 that produces times with two hour digits. For example: 00:01:23.45, 01:23:45.67, 12:34:56.78.
• Made a change so that the “Please Wait” dialog box does not appear anymore when uploading just one entry whether by a listing file or by the “Sync with server” technique.
• Jon Krupa asked that when doing Event to Database with a time into a right-justified field, if the field is shorter than the data, truncate to the left rather than to the right as is normally done. Done.
• Brian Sparacino told us about the NK Interval Timing Watch and loaned us one so we could support it. It’s very inexpensive but it does not transfer times live. Instead, after the race is done the times from multiple events (or segments as they call them) can be transferred to RunScore. The transfer takes about 30 seconds whether there is one time or a few thousand. Not only did Brian Sparrcino tell us about the NK Interval watch, he provided a computer program which allowed me to support it.
• Add support for registration site ZapEvent. There are now so many online systems supported that they have all been moved from the Tools menu item to their own menu item “Online.”
• Not a change but information: Within two days, two different people could not print to their label printer. We forgot to tell you in the Help section on label printers that you MUST turn off “Printer Dialog Box” in Tools/Preferences.
• Matthew Studholme suggested changing the pop-up you get when a new manually-entered time is less than the previous one. Previously, the only response was “OK” and the time was retained. He suggested a different pop-up with “OK” and “Cancel”. If “Cancel” is clicked, then the new time is discarded. Done. This makes handling typing errors easier.
• Carl Magnuson pointed out that when you try to clear a protected field for all entries, the field to be cleared, marked in red, becomes the bib number field. If you’re not careful, you could clear out all your bib numbers. This has been fixed. You can now clear a protected field.
• Jenna Ginsberg requested that the laps event be sorted by time before executing the Laps-to-Rounds command. This is necessary since sometimes times from chips do not come into the event in order. Done.

• A new menu item: Field-Column mapping has been added so that you can create the mapping from ChronoTrack Live columns to RunScore field names. This is handy if you have no registrations at ChronoTrack live but want to upload registrations from RunScore.
• Can now upload an awards list to RunSignUp (and soon to ChronoTrack Live). That is, your usual awards file, with very slight modifications, can be shown online.
• Jenna Ginsberg requested a new command “Multiply By” for use with Event to Database so that a time can be multiplied to compensate for events that take less time when adding up times from a multi-event race. Done.
• Can do team scoring with different numbers on each team by setting Team Score to zero. Suggested by Jay from Taiwan.
• Improved field mapping with ChronoTrack Live custom fields. Instead of the field names such as “custom_elevent12345”, RunScore translates them into the description of the custom question.
• Made improvement to ChronoTrack Live upload. You still need an external_id field but you don’t have to have anything in the field. If you don’t RunScore will assign a number one higher than the highest external_id. This works both for uploads from a listing file and while in “Sync with server” mode.
• Added a touch screen keypad to the Announcer screen so partipants can enter their bib number on the screen keypad to see their results. Of course, your computer screen must be a touch screen to use.
• With RaceIt, RunSignUp, and ChronoTrack Live, a new menu selection that tells you which event or race you are working on.
• Team Relay wasn’t working unless it included a penalty event. Works now even without one.

• In a first for RunScore, YouTube videos have been added to the Help screens. These first two are in the RunSignUp section showing how to download registrations, upload registrations, upload results, upload live results, and setup and upload splits.
• At request of Steven Keith, reload entries.ini when executing the “Update all entries” command. The entries.ini is reloaded whenever RunScore detects that a change has been made but if there is a change in one of the included files, RunScore will not about that. This change forces the re-loading of the file.
• At request of James Oaks, allow use of “Field Length” command when printing labels to prevent long names from spilling over.
• RunScore support for RunSignUp now handles live update. That means that it uploads just those finishers who have finished since the last upload. This all happens automatically. RunScore checks every 10 seconds to see if there are new finishers. If there are, it uploads them.
• At request of Andre Yelle, Race Headquarters, added two new Announce commands. One controls the length of time an announce screen is up before it refreshes for the next finisher. The other allows you to see, instead of the next finisher after such a delay, to see the most recent finisher. The commands are “Announce Update Sec” and “Announce Use Last”.
• At request of Robert Youngs, Super Race Systems, add command “Conditional headers”. When this command is used, a header in an awards list is skipped if there are no finishers in that category. Usually it is best to have the headers displayed so that people know that there is such a category and it had no finishers. However, you might want to use the command in a race that has a very large number of categories, many of which have no finishers.
• Support for RunSignUp for: (1) Download of registrations, (2) upload of registrations and correcting of registrations on RunScore and having them appear right away on the RunSignUp site, and (3) Upload of results. Once uploaded, you can click on a link in Tools on RunScore and see the results on the site.

• Bill Teschek wants to separate the columns, for readability, in a triathlon results report. To do this he inserted the ‘|’ character between columns. When this is done, the headers are adjusted to remain over the proper columns but the ======= underlines do not. Fixed.
• At request of Jenna Ginsberg and Steven Keith, RunScore now pops up a message when you connect to a device that requires event mapping. You are shown the present mapping and asked if you want to use it. If you answer “no” the file events_mapping.ini will be erased and you will be prompted for each external location whose name is not the same as one of your RunScore events.
• Because of a problem that Alan Higley had with e-mail when an email field had junk but not a valid e-mail address, we have added the command “Contains.” With this one can check that the field contains the @ character.
• Several people have been pointing out problems with Live Results running on RSClient. Have made some major changes that should help in making Live Results more robust. Give us some feedback if you uncover any problems.

• At request of John Resman, eliminated leading blanks upon import of *.csv files. If the field is right-justified, the blanks will be restored during the import. Also eliminated leading blanks upon export to *.csv files.
• Barbara Hindenach requested a change in how the bib number is handled when using auto-increment. If you enter a new person and hit F10 or F12 to save, the next bib number pops up, say 456. If you start typing in the next person and notice on the drop-down that that person is already in your database, you can select that person. When you did that, the bib number field was cleared. Also, if you put in the number you want to add and then start typing a new person, the same thing happened. What Barbara requested and what now works is that the bib number is retained. One reason I was motivated to make this change is that the previous behavior was bothering me, too, but I guess I needed a push to get around to making the change. Thanks to Steven Keith for testing this new feature.
• Josh Drew reported that the Look Up Replace command no longer worked. Fixed for use in a listing and in the INI file.
• Have added SMS/Text messaging through an SMS provider. See Help file for details. We are working with UpcellText but are interested in working with other SMS providers. We were put in contact with UpcellText by RunScore customer Jim Young.
• New feature added: Team Relay.
• Added new ActiveCF.xml to RunScoreUpdate.exe. If you are having a problem connecting to Active.com through RunScore, be sure to make sure you have the current version of this file. The way to tell is by looking at this line: <IP>aml.xes.active.com</IP>. It must have that ‘xes’ in there.
• John Snitko was having problems with extensive use of Event to Database. Made some changes to try to protect the database when writing when more than one thread at a time tries to write.

• The Select Event command to select participants out based on their time in an event has been improved. You can now select based on a comparison of times between two events. For example, say you wanted to find problems such as a runner who crossed a split after crossing the finish line. You could write:

Select Event (tab) SPLIT1 GE (tab) FINISH

• Debbie Burke requested that the Points Table be allowed to have non-integer values, e.g. 10.5. Done. To make places to the right of the decimal appear in output or in Event to Database, you must use the Precision command which tells RunScore how many places to the right of the decimal point you want to use.
• You can now download registrations directly from online registration site RaceIt.com. This is accomplished through an API (Application Programming Interface) provided by RaceIt.
• At the urging of Jeff Castro, got “Instant Print” working from RSClient. This has never worked since the creation of the client/server version of RunScore.
• At request of Ron Larson and Steven Keith, add system variable %ISO time% which produces time in a format without colons, e.g. “150105” (for 03:01:05pm). They wanted this so they could produce file names based on time. The system variable %time% produces times such as “15:01:05”.

• Add check for duplicate names to Design Screen
• Switched from InstallShield to Inno Setup for creating distribution files. Updates for both RSServer and RSClient are in the single file RunScoreUpdate.exe.

• May have eliminated the “Must run as administrator” problem when installing RunScoreSetup.exe. The problem was ambiguous wording in the InstallShield documentation.
• At suggestion of Jon Krupa, test to make sure there are not duplicate field names in the database.
• With help from Steven Keith, improved the Help screens concerning transponder races.
• At request of Andrés Alañón Vázquez make place and division place work for lap races with a scratch time in the Announce screen.
• Can now use a scratch event subtracted from a laps event in a listing file. Before you could subtract a fixed time (gun time) but not a different time for each competitor. (You have always been able to subtract the initial time [“lap 1”] from the other laps using the “Net time” feature.) This improvement was inspired by the work for Andrés Alañón Vázquez (Version 7.2.11.24) that allowed this in a “Merge Events” listing.
• J-Chip records are very similar to ChampionChip records so it is hard for RunScore to tell which system is in use when loading files. There is no problem when the data come through TCP/IP since the user selects the system. In order that RunScore knows that the files being read in are J-chip files, a new control (J-Chip file loading) is added under Tools/Chip Options. Note: There is no problem with J-Chip records being read as ChampionChip records unless it is a race where the clock goes past midnight. J-Chip has taken over the ChampionChip “antenna” field and replaced it with a “day” field which keeps track of how many days you are into a race.
• Working with George Groome and Mark Hendley, made a fix to the External Timer “Keyboard” device and made a change to the “Barcode” device so that it works with a keypad that terminates a line with either <LF> or <CR>. Also set the default for the barcode to be bib mode instead of time mode.
• At request of George Groome, reinstitute “not found added” for an individual event. But, instead of using a checkbox on the Edit Event dialog box, it is set in the entries.ini file. This allows you to turn on “not found bib number added to database” for an individual event. However, this is just for external timers such as the Time Machine. This has no bearing on chip/tag races since at the time a chip/tag record since the particular event is not known at the point a chip/tag record is being parsed. See “not found” in Help for details.
• New command, Select Event, allows you to select on an event. Previously, you could only select on a field.This allows filtering. For example, you could select out only those who started after the gun. It is hoped that you clever users will find new and exciting things to do with this new command.
• Added support for MyLaps ProChip although this was just the addition of the name to Initialize External Timers since it already worked by selecting ChampionChip when using the MyLaps Toolkit.
• In the past few days had two instances of team results reporting a team full of blanks ahead of the first place team. In both cases, it was an event with a start event and, due to errors or people crossing mats, there were negative times. Made changes to catch errors like this.
• At request of Douglas Kirk, allow Message command in team results and, in particular, allow an initial message that will display at beginning of line.