Our regular update, before the season gets too hot...
Race start shortcut
New menu item to enter a start time for a race: quicker option than loading the race list, looking for the right race item and validate. Also can be helpful if you intend to simply record a gun start with the mouse, using the PC clock.
And to enhance further the UX at this place, the contextual menu doesn't show anymore on a right click but instead a drop-down arrow appears on mouse over and a regular click does the job. So you have more chances to discover/remember the feature, which comes along the pre-existing menu to flag a race as terminated.
G-Live
For those using the header option for their G-Live online, the default header content provided as a template (header.html) now includes an HTML element to load a logo for the current event.
If the header is in place, all you'll have to do is filling the new property in Event options screen / Web publication of your events. When browsing the event online the logo will show up.
Internationalization
Pursuing our efforts to provide a great experience to most of you, the job of translating documentation in Spanish has been started.
Relay races
A new option is now available to handle a relay race when runners/riders/... will share a unique chip for a whole team. It's still based on the Relay races management principles explained in the inline help files.
In practice, it allows to register all individuals with their own bib number. In addition you'll have to manage team numbers data and the chip ids will point to it (ex. chip id 4000 for team #4000 with teammates bib range 4001-400x).
When passing acquisitions come down Wiclax will determine which leg is concerned (including leg finish or intermediate splits) and the final ranking will show all the details you expect by participant.
Team races
Having an event globally set as a team race, you can now specify that a specific race of it is an individual one.
Means you can more easily mix team and individual races in a single event, up to the web publication where you'll retrieve a team ranking when necessary, and a regular individual ranking for individual races.
Cycling
To catch up with a new point of the latest UCI regulations, you can now enter some points penalties that will be effective on the climbing classification instead of the points (sprints) classification.
Printout
When printing a team ranking, the option for the team participants display (all, none, ...) is now directly available on the print preview.
The detailed team list (including participants) is now compliant with the thumbnail mode, and shows flags for the team nationality. Standard mode has been enhanced as well for a better density.
Championships module
More flexible than ever, you can now chose which merging key will be used to recognize a same competitor in the different race files.
The key remains by default the competitors full names, originally made for events where no overall control of the registration data exists (i.e. each event registration process is made independently). Then you can now decide to merge on bib numbers, license numbers, or any custom data that will be found in all race files.
General classifications
New option to allow for "DNF" competitors to appear listed at the end of the ranking. It applies to those who typically didn't participate or finish all the required stages. They get appended to the grid, with a DNF status but allowing to display the detail of their performances for the stages they run.
Stage races
For your events managed as independent stages, you now have a new column named 'Stages' available for the participant list. It displays some visual flags to quickly see on which stage each individual is registered.
Furthermore the column can be sorted or filtered, bringing new abilities to work on participant subsets like for instance all those registered on stages 1 and 3.
Custom export formats
A stage index can now be specified alongside a variable to export, other than the one of the exported stage.
Gives the ability for instance export a grid including the start time of the next stage, performances (time, rank) for each stage, etc...
Team time trials
In UCI cycling mode, the net time for riders will be automatically set with the value of the nth rider of the team, when the criteria for the team classification of the stage is actually the "time of competitor of rank n".
Chip filtering
In addition to the general filter, it's now possible to enter a list of single ids to exclude that will be saved at the event level (not globally). Useful for cases when a test chip has remained on the circuit, and comes back again and again with a regular import.
Miscellaneous
Penalties and bonuses: they can now be entered by pasting an external list. Useful in some specific cases where you'll have a bunch of them to enter.
Printout: a new page settings option brings the ability to insert page breaks between groups. For example in a result list grouped by categories.
Withdrawals: similar to entering a list of non-starters, a new item from the competitors menu now allows to enter a list of bib numbers to mark as withdrawals. The bib list entering dialog has been enhanced to display a few useful information on the bib being typed - competitor's name, race and status.
Filters: new item for the grid filtering control (on the right-top corner), allowing to isolate unknown participants created after a chip read.
G-Live: improvements on the display of map legend and track profiles, on smartphone screens.
We're excited to introduce our new cloud service, that you can start to use with your user account.
The service is designed as a hub for all your remote RFID readers, at a time where most of them can now connect to the network and send their data.
With 2 main bonuses compared to similar vendor solutions:
you can use it the same way with many different systems from various manufacturers - we know for sure that a majority of timers don't rely on a single supplier for equipment
it makes the bridge between your devices and Wiclax, for a new real time experience
Already compatible with systems from RFID Timing, uRTime and J-Chip.
Race Result, Macsha and Trident are ongoing but still in Beta test.
Note: the service is right now available for free, but please notice that the conditions might evolve in the future.
Bind a reader to the account - the instructions to find its ID and to setup the device will be displayed at this step.
Start the reader: you will see it immediately online on the web page. Chip passing will also appear as soon as they get collected.
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1 the device name, and a temporary location name if set. Click to edit the device properties
2 the current status when the device is connected: clock, reading state, battery,... (depending on availability)
3 the number of passings for the day, and overall. Date of the last one. Click to display passing data as a list.
In action with Wiclax
To stay in line with our philosophy, the background logic is as simple as possible:
you can send the readers in nature without any specific new setting: no split location to update, no history file to clean
on the back end, you just care about a reader and the time period during which it stays on a timing location
Create a new acquisition, type Online passings
Enter your Génialp account credentials, and drop down the Split id/File selection box to select your device.
Activate the acquisition, and here you are: chip reads will start to land in real time in your event, and you'll be able to rewind any previously transmitted data.
Today we are very excited to add a new hardware manufacturer to Wiclax. We are now able to communicate directly with J-Chip decoder.
Like many other readers and decoders, J-chip hardware can be connected to through tcp-ip, which is our preferred way.
IP and port to be entered in Wiclax can be easily found and set in the Pro control panel utility from J-Chip.
Tags readings can be listen to in live or recalled later if needed. The rewind feature will be able to recall all readings since the decoder's started.
Note that we've taken advantage of the latest firmware from J-Chip that includes a complete timestamp with date. It's particularly usefull for events running over many days.
We strongly recommend to update and choose the date mode for the decoder.
By the way, we can already tell you that J-Chip will also be available from our cloud for remote split points. We'll be publishing very soon about that.
Not exactly a new feature, but worth reminding it exists: you can change the order of fields in the participants entry form by dragging them with the mouse. The new order gets saved with the event.
Keeping the pace, constant improvements, here's the new official release.
Team races
Some major changes to ease things when it comes to managing the team data:
the old Team list side panel disappears and is replaced by a more accessible and convenient Teams tab, making it available as a standard grid. Means you can get the best of it: sorting, filtering, multi-line edits,... The list can be filtered by race just as the participants or results grids. New data columns are available to get numbers of teammates registered/ranked/finishers. So more statistics become available.
when printing the grid, you'll get a handy choice to print either a simple list or a detailed one with participant details.
the team categories become a separated list, making things clearer in most race contexts. So that where it matters you'll be able to work on a shorter and more relevant list for selection. Options concerning automatic assignment of team categories are now accessible from the categories form below the list.
G-Live
Lot of ideas to keep enriching this strategic piece of the solution.
New TV Screen mode
If you want to display results on a TV sized screen, here's a great new feature. First load the standard G-Live page, select the grid/race you wish, press F4. The grid goes in full page mode and starts auto-scrolling. A non scrolling mode is available by hitting F4 once again. And F7 gives a nice dark theme eventually more suitable for outdoor contrast.
Don't forget to play with the browser zoom as well, before setting it in full-screen mode.
Maps
Better design and user experience for the map items:
different tracks now toggled in one click (loosing the (useful?) ability to display more than one track at a time, but much more comfortable)
the profile shows the intermediate timing points
timing points on the track are displayed with the number of passed/expected runners. Numbers updated in live when the race Live is on, and a click on them pops up a summary of the associated ranking, men and women
Finish line video embedded
If you have a Youtube video of your finish line, you can now enter its address as an event parameter (tab Social networks of the options form. Alongside with its starting hour. On your online results, the video will be embedded into the athlete summary form and will start right before he/she's crossing the line.
Penalties
Penalties are now displayed on G-Live: a mention of the time values added is shown on the result grid, and the detail of the motives can be seen in the competitor summary.
Athlete summary form
Now shows both average speed and pace values, corresponding to the main finish time.
Men/Women/Mixed selection
The selection menu is re-designed, more compact and hopefully more obvious.
Auto scrolling lists on screen configurations
Result lists items placed on a custom screen configuration can now be auto scrolling. You control parameters such as the step height, the scrolling pace and the animation duration. Scrolling can be horizontal as well.
Control recent passing
A new menu item brings the ability to decide when the recent passing history disappears from displays. Rather than an arbitrary timeout, you decide what and when to clean the list, for example to prepare for the next race or the next lap.
Printout
The design of printout templates is enhanced: now organized into 4 distinct areas where text items or pictures can be placed. Document header, (other) pages header, page footer and document footer. Hence more possibilities, like appending some document notes as required for the event. And a nice shortcut as bonus: when working on the print preview a text item from the template can be clicked to quickly change its content.
Participant filters
A very nice and helpful new feature for participant management: on the top panel of the main grids you'll find a new filter icon like this:
It offers some quick additional filtering possibilities, in the sense they're not built on the visible columns data. And they won't conflict with a regular filter already applied like a race selection, rather combining with it.
On the participant list the built-in conditions adds some shortcuts to isolate starters/non-starters, finishers, participants seen somewhere/nowhere, or withdrawals. So it's totally convenient to change in one operation the status for all individuals not seen at any timed location - typically setting them as non-starters.
On the result grids it's combining the data check features, to find missing intermediate times or inconsistent split time chronologies. These ones were already existing as a ribbon button but this way they become much more accessible.
RFID Systems
A consistent list of updates on that front too:
J-Chip connection now fully implemented
Mylaps and AMB decoders now with direct connection, using proprietary protocol P3
new option on the Race Result acquisition to filter chip reads by event id(s)
new general option to prevent the creation of unknown chip read in any case, suitable for events where the participant list or the chip distribution have no reason to be wrong
Miscellaneous
Implementation of export format for UCI races (UCI Dataride)
New variables available for custom exports: race time, gross time and rank for a given split point, time and rank for a given segment, number of starters in the gender and the category, all individual data for a given teammate when exporting a team ranking. Documentation re-written as a more accessible html page in /Export folder
New option to define a race as not published on the Web - it will be hidden on the G-Live app
Custom exports are now compatible with the export of a team ranking, and the export dialog now allow to select team ranking items for each race
For unisex events, a new general option allows to tell that participants for the competition are all men or all women - disabling stuff like Women highlighting for instance
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