From: WinMSS Development Team to SSGCI
Re: 1st WinMss Report - H-Chem Invitational Match
Date: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:12 PM
Hello Roman,
Thank you for your continued interest in WinMSS!
> We've just concluded the 7-stage Level II match where
> four classifier stages were included for initial
> classification.
Great! Excellent!
> Why did the rankings changed for competitors within a
> specific tag when compared with printed overall
> results?
Only competitors that have been "tagged" are considered during the scoring
process. This is true of all the match scoring "By" reports (Category,
Classification, Region, Tag, & Team).
The changes in ranking are "relative" to what has been excluded from the
report. That is to say a competitor's listing order will not change.
> Is this brought about by the so-called stage weighing
> effect?
Yes.
With best regards,
WinMSS Development Team
mailto:WinMSS@ipsc.org
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas
From WinMSS Development Team to SSGCI
Re: WinMSS Wrokshop, July 27,2002
Thank
you for your interest in WinMSS!
> PPSA (represented by Mr. Vin Lava)
and our club have
> just concluded a workshop on the
use of WinMSS
> yesterday using version 1.0.1.4,
July 27, 2002 for the
> benefit of the Stats Officers.
Wow,
that is a fairly old WinMSS release now.
Our current version is
Of
WinMSS is 1.0.1.16 and the next release will be version 1.0.1.17 on or
before
29-JUL-2002.
> 1. How do we create a back up data ?
This
information is already available in the "readme.txt" file of the
current
WinMSS release, but I will reiterate it below for your
convenience:
=======================================================
Periodically
Compact Your WinMSS Database
=======================================================
The
WinMSS Database is a Microsoft Access database named
"WinMSS.mdb".
As
such, becomes fragmented with frequent use of the WinMSS application.
You
should periodically compact the database compact the WinMSS database to
reduce
its size and to improve WinMSS's performance.
Steps to
compacting
the WinMSS Database.
1. Make sure the WinMSS application is not
running.
2. Backup the WinMSS database (just in case
something should go
wrong).
3. Execute the "Compact and Repair
Database.bat" batch file.
4. When prompted, press any key to proceed with
the compact process.
=======================================================
Back
Up Your WinMSS Database File on a Regular Basis
=======================================================
The
WinMSS Database is a Microsoft Access database named "WinMSS.mdb",
And
you should back up this file on a regular basis.
It
is best to choose a backup schedule that corresponds to the amount
Of
data you can afford to lose. For
example, if you cannot afford to lose
More
than a day's worth of data, back up on a daily basis. A full database
File
backup is the best way to make sure that you can recover your WinMSS
file
if corruption occurs.
IMPORTANT:
You must shut down WinMSS before you back up the WinMSS
Database
file. If you do not, you may create a
backup file with incomplete or
inconsistent
data. Test your backups regularly to
make sure that your
backups
are good.
> 2. Can we move competitor databases from one match to
> another?
Well,
yes and no. A WinMSS database may have
more than one match in
it...
so
yes. However, the current release of
WinMSS cannot import data from
an
existing WinMSS database... so no. A
future release of WinMSS will
provide
better data transference features.
> 3. Up to how many participants can the program
> handle?
I
will have to get back to you on this.
However, it is possible to
Process
approximately 300 competitors over 3 days with 14 stages. It would
also
be stated that WinMSS can easily handle 32,000 participants over 1 year
with
1 stage (this statement is only to give you an idea of why I have to get
back
to you on this).
> 4. Is there a way we can merge records from different
> stations or stages like we used to
on slave data
> entries in MSS for big matches?
This
feature will be provided in a future release.
> 5. What is the use of the field box labeled as
> "Reference"
Currently,
none.
> 6. Our stats officers for years have been accustomed
> to the MSS 6.6b hence the
following came out as a
> comparisons:
Thank
you for furnishing us with your findings.
We really appreciate
Any
and all feedback (good, bad, and/or indifferent).
> Aug 2 to 4 will be the match where
WinMSS will be used
> for the first time in the region
and We'll probably be
> using your 1.0.1.6 (db version
1.0.1.9)or later by
> that time.
Oh,
please use the latest version of WinMSS.
As stated above, version
1.0.1.17
will be released on or before 29-JUL-2002.
You will realize a
lot
of benefits by using the latest and greatest WinMSS software. You may
obtain
the newest WinMSS version from this official WinMSS web page:
http://www.ipsc.org/mss.htm
With
best regards,
WinMSS
Development Team
mailto:WinMSS@ipsc.org
Diligentia,
Vis, Celeritas