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.

En 2016, nous chronométreurs n'envisageons plus de travailler en saisie manuelle. Il faut donc connecter Wiclax à notre système RFID préféré. Notez que Wiclax s'interface largement avec de nombreux systèmes et que la liste n'est pas définitive.

Voilà une vidéo très courte pour montrer qu'il est très simple de s'interfacer directement avec un système (ici avec RFIDTiming). Il s'agit juste d'une introduction parce que bien sûr les configurations peuvent être beaucoup plus complexes : plusieurs matériels en local ou distant, plusieurs passage sur la même ligne, plusieurs boucles pour un seul décodeur, etc...

Here is a quick video to show you how easy it is to add a logo at the top of the results printout. Note that many logos can be added, either at the top or at the bottom or both. A customized header can also replace the existing one.

You have just ordered a licence for wiclax and you have to activate it. Here is a quick video to do so.

Remember that you have to be connected on the internet at the time of the activation.

New in version 8 is the ability to open a network service that makes your participant data editable from a remote station/device.

This can be a great help for example if you want to dedicate a member of your team for a participant registration follow up, while you can strictly focus on timing the current race.

How to make it work

Almost nothing to do for that: the service is opened by default when Wiclax gets launched and as soon as an event is active, the participant data can be edited remotely.

Simply find the Network button in the Registrations tab, and you'll get the address of the service in the dropdown menu. Type this address in the browser of a tablet connected to your local network and here you go.

You're getting this kind of screen, showing the name of the active event and a minimal registration form:

What can you do with the service?

The application can do the following:

• Lookup some existing participant data: either typing a bib number or part of a name
• Modify the data for a registered participant
• Register a new participant, providing his/her bib number (an alert will tell if it's already allocated)
• Register a new participant, letting Wiclax allocate him/her an available bib number. This number will be determined by the races' bib ranges if any, and will be displayed right after the validation.
• Display the history of the registrations made on the device, for an easy go-back when necessary.

On Wiclax side, a greenmark icon appears on a participant row when he's been added remotely. The mark disappears at the next file saving. Remember that only this file saving operation makes the remote modifications definitely saved.

Note: to simplify, only one single service is active at a given time on your PC. So in case you're working with multiple instances of Wiclax, remember that the last one that was alone when launched owns the service. Having a doubt or wishing to switch for another event: check the Network menu. It will propose to hijack the active event in case it's not the current one.

You may have such a specific need because you want your results to go into an independent publishing process. Or maybe a governing body of your preferred discipline asks them in a specific format.

He're what Wiclax can do for you:

Custom export formats

Looking at the ribbon > Print - Export panel, you can see listed the standard formats - Excel, HTML,... - and then the last button saying Other formats.

The dropdown menu shows a short list of items and the last one is called My custom export. Clicking it will ask you where to save an exported file, and will create this file according to some specific formatting rules.

Now, how about my own format? Let's take a tour at folder Wiclax_install_folder\export: here you can see a file whose name is identical to the menu item label.

Create a copy of the file in the same folder, and name it as you wish. Let's name it My CSV export for our example. Then edit it with any text editor of your choice.

The file describes all the data you can export, in the form of variable "tags" - i.e. a numeric id identifying a variable like for example a bib number or a time.
It also lists a few available options to change the global behaviour of the export, like some possible values for a header and a footer. This list is not definitive, so please feel free to contact us if you're missing something there to get the perfect export matching your case.

The part to modify is the content between the <Export> tags. We can define a CSV export, for example. A basic export row with the main result data will look like that:

<Export extension=".csv" separator=";" namesUppercase="1"
     header="rank;name;club;time;race;category rank;splits"
     datarow="[%30%];[%4%];[%7%];[%22%];[%19%];[%31%];[%55%]">
</Export>

Finish your format definition and then open again the Other formats menu in the ribbon. Your new format is now available:

FTP

In addition to the ability to output the file corresponding to your new format, you can also decide that the FTP export will follow this format instead of exporting the event file itself.

On the roadmap

As said, the list of options is intended to grow as new requirements come out. Another natural enhancement will be to make possible the setup of multiple FTP exports for an event. You may need to send your results to 2 different places (servers), or to send them both with the Wiclax format and your custom one.