[Ant-l] ANT version 12 issues

[Juha Hiirsalmi]

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> > The most problems with ANT and TOP during the past season have been
> adding
> > people who register on site to the lists. At the competition center, it
> is
> > easy to do this either on a computer or by phone to TOP, but
> automatically
> > updating the database to ANT would be a great additional feature.
>
> However, the automatic download could be problematic in case of poor signal
> coverage. That was the reason why I declared the StartNumber as a primary
> criteria for result data matching. A new person gets a start number in
> the EC, it is added to TOP or another system and the competitor uses this
> start number at timed stations - just shows or tells it to the marshal,
> who only enters the number, nothing more. And the person is paired in the
> system automatically with the uploaded data. It is much more error-proof
> system, IMHO


The problem there is that most of our events were not competitions, but
trainings or other events. A large portion of the participants would be
scared away by the word competition. Meaning no numbers used.
The automatic download should be possible to turn on/off. For example, in
southern Finland it's almost impossible to find a place without signal
coverage. At least it would be a nice and useful feature for us.


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> > Also change of chip number after the competition has started or some
> other
> > change do cause the same issue.
>
> This question is more about TOP - ANT simply reads data from chip and sends
> it. If it is unmatched in TOP, the file is still stored there, you can
> reset
> the competitor information (start and/or chip number) in the DB and then
> reupload the particular ANT file from the ANT Import tab of the Race page.
> If the result file was already incorrectly matched to another competitor,
> you must first remove the results of the other person (tab Entries). I did
> it on Sunday a few times at the WRE in Poland. It's also pretty easy.


Yes, I know the system and have used it a couple of times.


Juha
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