Combined-event schedule set before athletes are entered not possible

Question

This is a request to make it easier to use Athletics.app.

Now it is not possible to set the time schedule before there are athletes using that time schedule.

I think it would be so much nicer if it could, for a jump competition of my own, I prefer to wait as long as possible to add competitors until it is clear who wants to participate. But setting the time schedule will wait for that.

With kind regards,

Lidwien van Schalkwijk of Nijmegen Athletics

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Comments

I have run into the same problem. I think it would be helpful to have a timetable in place, so that when the athletes register, they know where they stand. I solved that by registering myself as an athlete for that combined-event, then I was able to enter a timetable. Then I removed me again, after a real registration was done.

But that does not seem to me to be the right way to go.

Jelle van der Schaaf

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I agree with this. Entering the timetable is somewhere in the back of the Wizard (#14), whereas I want to present the chronological overview already when athletes start registering in Athletics.app. I had already performed that filling in of the timetable (after creating categories and events, but found that after creating startgroups, the timetable disappeared again (except for categories that had registrations). Isn't it more convenient to assume startgroups = category, except for those where changes are made manually?

Nico Disseldorp, DAK Drunen

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Answer 1

There are a number of different scenarios possible:

1. You have set the startgroups to 'Automatic management by Athletics.app per .....'
2. You have set the startgroups to 'Manual management'

In the case of situation 1, you can immediately enter a time schedule for all combined-events startgroups.

 

In the case of situation 2, you can only enter a time schedule for a Combined-events startgroup once there are one or more athletes in that startgroup. The reason for this is that Athletics.app does not yet know exactly which categories will end up in that startgroup, and in theory, each category can have different combined-events events. For example, you could mix a Girl Junior A (100m-sh-shot) with Boys Juniors B (100m-sh-javelin).

 

If you are in situation 2, you could create a fictitious athlete and give them a distinctive name, such as 'TO BE DELETED LATER', for example. If you place that athlete in the correct Startgroup, you can set a time schedule.

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