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Team Manager Meet Result Directions
Coaches,
If you are actually using Team Manager to provide data for your athletes,
Directions: 1.
Save the Meet Results to the C:\ drive on your computer.
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TEAM MANAGER Main Menu Bar, click on File then Import then Meet Results.
TFWin-TM will first ask you to select the Drive, Directory, and File Name of
the file you wish to Import. If the meet results file is on a diskette, put
the diskette into your Drive A and select A from the Windows Open dialog
box. TFWin-TM will select all the files with the following file extensions -
TCL and ZIP. Pick the one you wish to import and click on OK. If you selected a ZIP file, TFWin-TM will unzip that file into a temporary directory named ZipTemp and then ask you to choose from the list of files that were extracted. Check the Data After you have selected the file you wish to Import, TFWin-TM will read the file and make various integrity checks. These checks are important because you do not want to import "bad data". At the conclusion of the data integrity checks, TFWin-TM will display information about the file that was selected including who created the file, when it was created, and the name and date of the meet. Ready To Import At this point in the process, TFWin-TM is ready to import the results from this meet and integrate those results into your TFWin-TM Database. It's now time to customize how you want to import the data. In general, Hy-Tek recommends you click on OK and accept the defaults. But if you have an empty database (no athletes have been entered), click on the Add New Teams/Athletes check box and TFWin-TM will populate your Database with the team and athletes included on the Meet Results file. Normally, we DO NOT recommend that you check this box because you may introduce duplicate athlete names. For example, if the athlete in your TFWin-TM Database is named "William Bates" and he was entered as "Bill Bates" in the Meet Manager Database, TFWin-TM will not find a match and add him if you selected the Add New Teams/Athletes check box. Now you have duplicate records for essentially the same athlete. Venue If the Import file does not contain information designating either an Outdoor or Indoor venue, you must select either Outdoors or Indoors. You can request that TFWin-TM filter the meet results for a specific team but in general, if you do not click the Add New Teams/Athletes check box, you will automatically get only your team's meet results. If this is a Best Marks or specific Meet Results file built by another TFWin-TM Database, you can also filter the import by date. If you wish to import Competitor Numbers, click the check box Include Competitor Numbers. How TFWin-TM Matches Athletes When you import Meet Results, TFWin-TM goes through the following process to find a correct match for each athlete being imported into your Database. 1. TFWin-TM looks for a match of Last Name, First name, Gender, and Team. If all of these match, then TFWin-TM imports the data for that athlete. If not, then TFWin-TM checks the "Add New Athlete Box". If it is checked, then a new athlete is added. If it is not checked, this record is not imported and is put on the Exception Report list. Exception Report You will be notified if TFWin-TM was not able to import all of the data in the selected file and then given the option to review a list of the records that were imported and why they were not imported. In the example above, Bill Bates would be included on the Exception Report because you specified that NEW Teams/Athletes NOT be added and as far as TFWin-TM is concerned, Bill Bates is a new athlete. You can then enter his results by hand or re-import and click on the Add New Teams/Athletes check box and he will be added to your Database. |