Une fois de plus, cette nouvelle version compile un grand nombre de nouvelles fonctionnalités, sans compromis avec nos exigences de qualité et de performances. Toujours à l'écoute des besoins de nos utilisateurs, nous espérons que chacun de vous y trouvera son bonheur.
Quelques unes des nouveautés les plus marquantes
Un vieux projet enfin finalisé : l'assistant de création d'épreuve a été entièrement repensé. Il est maintenant plus efficace que jamais pour démarrer n'importe quel type d'épreuve standard en une poignée de clics. Plus flexible aussi pour accueillir de nouveaux modèles et s'enrichir avec les données de vos fédérations préférées. Faites-nous parvenir vos remarques et vos idées !
Pour vos besoins professionnels, le module G-Live peut maintenant gérer des exporteurs personnalisés. Ces exporteurs sont capables d'écrire des fichiers de résultats, ou d'envoyer des données de course en direct sur le réseau. Une solution utilisée avec succès sur les championnats de France de Cross pour alimenter les incrustations TV.
Pour gagner du temps sur la saisie des coordonnées GPS d'un pointage, pointez-les directement sur la carte. Le champ d'adresse permet d'accéder rapidement à la zone qu'il vous faut.
Et pour vous faciliter la vie, la barre d'accès rapide va maintenant retenir vos fonctionnalités favorites, pour un accès immédiat. Faites un clic droit sur un bouton du ruban pour l'ajouter à la barre.
Pour voir la liste complète des nouveautés, cliquez ici.
Here we come with spring and a new 8.1 release of the software.
Once again we’ve been developing hard to come out with new powerful features and stick to the various needs you’re gathering with us, while remaining committed to high quality standards. Hence this new delivery not only brings quite a lot of enhancements and new features, but also improves global performances and reliability.
Emphasizing some of the coolest changes:
An old project finalized: the event creation wizard has been completely reshaped. It’s more straight forward than ever to get any standard race type ready in a few clicks. More flexible also to get enriched with new templates and with data from your beloved sport federations worldwide. We’re looking forward your comments and ideas!
For your professional requirements, the G-Live module can now embed some user-defined exporters. They can make automatic file exports or send live network data. Successfully used to feed some TV overlays at French national Cross championships.
Saving time on setting the GPS coordinates of your split points, now selectable on the map.
And making your life easier, the quick access toolbar will now hold your favorite features for instant access.
In its previous delivery, Wiclax introduced a new powerful framework to help with live data projection. Whatever your video device looks like, being it a wide led screen with a limited resolution or a big TV screen, you can freely design what you want to get displayed in live. Remember that the solution relies on the G-Live module, so you only need a Web browser somewhere on your local network which will broadcast the screening.
Thanks to this nice architecture in place, we can now go forward with new features.
A screen configuration was already able to include some pictures and some basic animations programmed to be displayed with some transition effects. Of course the text sizes, the background and foreground colors were customizable but you may expect more possibilities. Hence here what’s will come with the next release: the ability to attach your own CSS styles to any element, for example a text label but also rows and cells of a result list.
CSS is the standard language used to style every Web page. It’s not too difficult to learn and of course you’ll find thousands of resources to help you in discovering what it can achieve. Just imagine you can play with gradient backgrounds, borders, rotations, paddings and margins, text shadows, font styling, transparencies and much more.
Better a picture than a thousand words, here’s a sample to illustrate that:
Last but not least, we’ll plan to deliver such samples for your inspiration, as well as some other ready to use configurations. Then we’re waiting for your next wishes!
Not the most well known feature of the Wiclax solution, the Championships module can nonetheless be very helpful to you. You may already need it, or it can happen that you get suddenly requested for a tricky classification to perform over multiple events.
Getting started
The module is accessible from your Windows Start menu, searching for Championships or looking into the Wiclax submenu.
You'll basically create a new championship ranking in two steps:
Feed the list of events to work on. These will be the .clax files you used to time them.
Specify which rules apply for the ranking computation.
Computing a ranking
Once the setup is completed, just click the calculate button.
The ranking gets calculated and you can then export the result as a new Wiclax event file.
All possibilities
The module helps you with a variety of powerful features:
Defining some points to grant to competitors based on their ranks in each event - overall or in the category. If necessary you will be able to differentiate each race in the events, typically when it's about different distances.
Defining some additional rules like a minimal number of events participated, or a bonus granted for at least n events participated. This list is not exhaustive and may evolve based on new needs you'll encounter.
Dealing with competitor merging: a major issue with informal championships, when anyone can participate to the events without being registered at a global level, is that you're dependent on the data you get as input. And of course you cannot expect a same participant to have his name spelled in the exact same way through the different events he runned. So here comes the merging feature: after a primary level of computation you will be prompted with a list of individuals being likely the same person. Just remains you to decide and the final ranking will be made accordingly.
Classic race week-end: you're having to deal with multiple races spread across Saturday and Sunday. Each of them holds its own bib number range, but eventually you discover lately that the organizer made two of them overlap.
You want to avoid any perturbation in a simple way. For example some runners hanging around your mats/antennas with their bib for next day's race. Or other kinds of interference like clothing chips holding a plausible id (note: this is a good reason among others that makes filtering also useful in a single race configuration).
At the same time you want to make your chips encoding as easy as possible. Though the software can deal with chip-bib correspondence tables, it's always a waste of time to feed them and a non-necessary source of errors.
Here's what you'll use: chip filters in the software and a prefixing of your chip ids at encoding.
Chip encoding policy
Your chip ids will be made of 2 parts:
a unique number identifying the race - for example 0147. This number will be simply incremented after each race
the actual bib number
Giving for example this chip id for bib #4356: 01470004356
Chip filters in Wiclax
Open the acquisitions form, and look for the interference filter panel in the status bar:
Check the Filter active option. Enter the prefix that will identify the only chips you want to see read, and the number of trailing digits that will compose the actual bib number. In our sample case: 0147 is the prefix and 7 is the number of digits to care about.
Close the panel. The status bar now indicates that there's a filter active:
And that's it!
In case you're in doubt after that, seeing a chip discarded and wondering why, remember you can check the acquisition log. All filtered readings land there:
Rien de plus facile avec Wiclax que de personnaliser une édition. De multiples options sont disponibles. Dans ce billet, vous allez voir sous la forme d'une courte vidéo comment ajouter un logo dans l'entête d'un classement.
Notez bien qu'il est possible d'ajouter plusieurs logos, et de les positionner dans l'entête ou en pied de page. Il est également possible de remplacer complètement l'entête qui reprend le nom de la course par un bandeau personnalisée.
