Sail100 Problems Resolved and New Features

Have you loaded the Microsoft service packs from Microsoft.com to update your version of Excel and Windows.

To find the current version of sail100 you are using Do Entrants, Select Item. The version number is at the top

After you have installed the new update and you open any existing series the new features become available in that series


 
Upgrade.doc gives guidance on upgrading
 
Problems Resolved and New Features
       Sail100v235
              There was a small problem with v234 associated with Progressive Handicapping in conjunction with Average Lap racing now resolved
       Sail100v234
              The Display Pages for Race Data have been slightly modified
              There are also slight modifications to accommodate Office 10. There may be more modifications later as Office 10 progresses
       Sail100v233
              A new feature to display race data on screens was added
              A new feature to highlight in red on the os and nh web pages if a boat has a score that cannot be discarded
              A new feature to highlight in blue on the os and nh web pages if a boat has a score that can change due to say redress of Average Points
       Sail100v232
              There was a problem with v231 with a few users that has now been corrected
              This problem would have been clearly visible if you had it sorry for the inconvenience
       Sail100v231
              A new feature has been added to Sail100 to produce Display Screen Output see Control, All Open Series Select Item
              A new feature has been added to Progressive Handicapping
              It also contains a new version of Teamcom v 43 with attempts to make every thing easier to use(This is the one used at the Wilson Trophy 2009)
       Sail100v230
              A new feature has been added to Sail100 when splitting fleets in Round Robin. It allows you to split using Series Place or Points Hence if there is a tie on points by selecting points those tied boats will apear in the same fleet.
              Teamcom has again been modified to version 42 such that all the HTML pages it now produces are compliant with the latest requirements
       Sail100v229
              This version has a slightly modified layout in the Web Pages
              It also contains a new version of Teamcom v 41 which fixes a problem with odd numbers of teams and has a slightly modified schedule for the races
       Sail100v228
              This version contains some minor tidying up of Progressive Handicapping
              It also contains a new version of Teamcom v 40 which now allows Team Racing with up to 4 boats per team
       Sail100v227
              This includes an update for RRS 2009-2012 The changes are not significant
              I have added the ability to include Practice Races in Progressive Handicap Calculations
       Sail100v226
              The color Tabs doesn't work on Office 2000 and produced an error. The error should now not happen
       Sail100v225
              On the 21Sept I added colour to the tabs, I have made it so that races that have been input have a different color than races not yet input
              I have added a feature to Upload to Web Site which allows you to use Passive Mode or Non Passive Mode. Only tick the Passive mode box as a last resort because it gives a much slower transfer which may time out
              I have slightly changed the items available in Organise Entrants Sheet with relation to Progressive Handicaping because they were being used in the wrong way and causing confusion
              There is a new version of Special Input for lots of timed races which is more Office 2007 compatible
       Sail100v224
              I have changed the way when inputting non timed boats in a Race where may have a lot of say DNF boats.
       Sail100v223
              In some versions of Excel there was a problem with the width of the Sail Number Cells when inputting Race Data
       Sail100v222
              There was a problem in version 221 which results in the deletion of Misc1,Misc2,Misc3, Misc4 columns in Entrants
              v222 now has a new feature which allows you to print in Black and White or Colour
       Sail100v221
              Some general Tidying up
       Sail100v220
              I have made the web pages meet the latest W3C standards
              There is a new version of Teamcom
              There is a new version of Special Input for lots of timed races
       Sail100v219
              I have slightly modified the production of Web pages to meet the new web page standards
       Sail100v217
              I have modified the checking of a date input for the Prize Age Feature. This now tells you if it can if the input of a date is in the wrong format
              Please make sure both your Windows Language Settings and your Excel Language Settings match the format you are entering for Birthdays and Prize Dates
              I have put a new feature when Printing Entrants where you have a choice if you have a 2 handed boat to put the Crew data beneath the Helm Data in order to allow more results data on a page
       Sail100v216
              I have added another feature to Progressive Handicapping which is the ability to restrict Average Handicap to a fixed Percentage or an absolute change from the Original(first) Handicap used in the series
              On the 26 Dec 2007 I added a new version of Winners
              I called it Winners40 to avoid any doubt it is a new version that presents the Trophies data completely differently
              It now alows you to define colors etc
              It also presents Owner information as well as Helm and Crew
       Sail100v215
              Sailracer for UK users only have changed their upload info so this version has the new upload built in
              Modified winners program Winnersv32 was posted on 1 Nov
              This version dealt with an issue concerning creating Winners by Date of Birth when you have not put in the DOB only the Age
              Winnersv31 is now included that allows the ability if you are sailing with Adults and Children as helms to select the Adults
       Sail100v214
              On 25 Sept I changed Teamcom v 31 to Teamcom v 32 fixing an issue with Office 2007
              I have added to the features in Progressive such that you can produce the 10 Race Average to be used as the progressive even if you have less than 10 races in your schedule
       Sail100v213
              There are some very small improvements after a number of regattas in order to hopfully make things clearer
              In Round Robin there is a new question if splitting fleets and creating a new Race with either current Series Place or Points. This asks if you want to make the new race nondiscardable.
              There is a new version of Teamcom v 31 - Program for Swiss League and Round Robin Team Racing. The changes are mainly with the Round Robin version.
              There is a new version of Special Input for lots of timed races v 203.xls with only small tidy up changes
       Sail100v212
              There are some improvements to inputing DNF etc into a Level Rated non Timed Race
       Sail100v211
              Added larger paper size capability
              Included the full version of Lazer Radial RR
       Sail100v210
              For UK organisations SailRacer in conjuction with the RYA have produced a method of seeing which sailors are improving and vice versa
              If you want to make your series part of the analysis you can upload the necessary data to www.sailracer.co.uk using the new feature in Upload to web site
              There was an error with uploading files to the web if you used the box marked
              Local Folder leave Blank etc
              That problem effects all programs that have an upload facility
       Sail100v209
              I have produced a new version of the Winners Program version 30 which should now be Vista compatible
              I have modified the Series tie breaker to accommodate Sail Numbers that have no numbers in them
       Sail100v208
              I have fixed a Transfer Race problem that only happened if that Race was a combination of other timed races with different starts
              I have added to the top of the os web pages the Entries Races and Discards
       Sail100v207
              I have tidied up some of the mods I had to do to accommodate Vista and Office 2007.
              In some very exceptional situations an error message could come up

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