Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Updated prize facility

Version 2.02 build 5 has been uploaded to the website with a updated prize facility that uses the standard expression editor to select a group of competitors.  You will have to enter expressions for any existing prizes as it was not possible to auto-retro.

You can now allocate the number of prizes available in each prize category.  For example you may have a category called "Best Visitors" with 3 available prizes: 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  Sailwave will automatically allocate these when publishing if you include a prize table.

In the above example the visitors could be determined by using an expression of the form "club <> myyachtclub" - where myyachtclub is the name used for all local sailors in the club field.  Sometimes you may need to add data in fields to get Sailwave to allocate the prizes.  For example if you had a prize category called "Best Beginners", you'd need to use one of the fields to identify beginners if one was not available already.