Meet Manager:Release Notes

Under progress

• Timing Systems - Wylas - Results first lane not saved

When Wylas timer was sending results for the current selected heat, the result for the first lane with entry was not saved correctly.

• Live / SplashMe - Support for SFTP

Support for SFTP added for live result upload to custom server.

Version 11.80168

Released: Monday, 5. August 2024

• Entries - New separate heat events

For each event you may add one or more "Separate heats event". This allows you to group the heats at different times in your schedule.

• Timing Systems - Improved setup for Quantum

When you read the meet schedule on Quantum from Meet Manager, you get a better setup of the "Rounds" table. New fields in events (Round name, One round) and heats (code) will allow you to customize the data for your scoreboard.

Important note: You have to use "Splash V2" and at least version 6.1.19.x for Quantum in order to make this work.

Version 11.79888

Released: Monday, 3. June 2024

• Live / SplashMe - Error Update Live Data

In case you have medal ceremonies defined for an event, the live results update gives an error when activated during setting a heat to official.

Version 11.79834

Released: Tuesday, 28. May 2024

• Entries - Error Seeding Prelims

New error in build #79811 in seeding prelims fixed.

• Entries - Import Hy-Tek Entries

Hy-Tek entries can be imported from the .hy3 file as well. If your .zip has the .hy3 and the .cl2 file, entries will be imported as before.

• Entries - Improved final seeding

* Prelim results can be marked as "No advance to next round".

* Swimoff results will be used for sorting proposal for finals.

• Results - Split Times - Enhanced Edit

Beside the cumulative split times you may edit the delta times as well and cumulative splits will be calculated based on these.

Version 11.79567

Released: Friday, 26. April 2024

• Timing Systems - Swimster new option

The touchpad mode is transfered automatically now.

Version 11.79125

Released: Monday, 11. March 2024

• Live / SplashMe - Error creating SplashMe data with no results

Application error when uploading data for SplashMe for an event with no results fixed.

Version 11.78979

Released: Monday, 26. February 2024

• Records - Filter records / timestandards in event titles

There is a new option to filter records and timestandards by the entries of the event. Like this, only relevant records will be listed.

Version 11.78560

Released: Monday, 8. January 2024

• Report - FINA Points 2024

FINA Points LCM 2024 added.

FINA Master Points 2024, based on records as of end of September 2023.

• Live / SplashMe - Events with no seeding

Events with no heats but results will be recognized correctly and appear as results in SplashMe (not as entries only).

Version 11.77960

Released: Monday, 23. October 2023

• Live / SplashMe - FTP Upload protocol changed

When using TLS for FTP upload, the version was changed to 1.2.

Version 11.76727

Released: Monday, 15. May 2023

• Events - Time Trial Events

New type of event (time trial). These events are named like this in all reports and will never be used for medal statistics or point scores.

• Entries - Import entries with heat/lane

When importing entries with heat and lane, entries with lane=0 were not recognized correctly.

Version 11.76277

Released: Monday, 13. March 2023

• Report - FINA Master Points

New point table for master points: FINA Master Points 2023.

This new table uses the same formula as the FINA Points with the world records as of end of 2022 for 1000 points. It is not an official table right now.

Version 11.75980

Released: Monday, 6. February 2023

• Results - German DSV 7 Format

Export invitation / results routine updated to DSV 7 format.

• Timing Systems - Seiko - PT-8000 Interface

Several fixes in order to record the correct times and assign these to the correct heats.

• Live / SplashMe - Meet - Session - Event Status

Internal updates to handling of state of different objects like heats, events, sessions and meet.

CAUTION. This is a change that will update a meet database so I cannot be opened with older MM versions again.

Version 11.75806

Released: Tuesday, 24. January 2023

• Timing Systems - Quantum Aquatics Interface V2

In some cases there was an error in Meet Manager, when you disconnect the Quantum application when the timing interface was still active in Meet Manager.

• Timing Systems - Time Drops

New interface added for timing system "Time Drops".

Version 11.75640

Released: Friday, 13. January 2023

• Import Base Data - Netherlands

Updates for the changed interface on the KNZB server in order to fix import for base data (clubs, athletes, officials).

Version 11.75500

Released: Saturday, 31. December 2022

• German DSV 7 Format

Import routines for German DSV format updated to format version 7.

Version 11.75236

Released: Thursday, 1. December 2022

• Events - Error when deleting Medal Ceremony Item

When a medal ceremony item is deleted in the event structure, the agegroups of the last event (final / timed final) will be deleted.

The same applies when you delete a fastest heat event item.

• Entries - Withdrawl report

New report with all withdrawls by event.

• Live / SplashMe - Personal and Season Best Times

For registered athletes, best times (alltime, season) are synchronized from swimrankings.net and displayed on the entry list.

New best times are marked on the result list.

Version 11.74989

Released: Thursday, 17. November 2022

• Entries - Error in Hy-Tek .ev3 files

Exporting .ev3 files ignored individual events with no time standards.

• Report - FINA Points 2022

FINA Points 2022 SCM added.

Version 11.74191

Released: Friday, 26. August 2022

• Entries - Errors during seeding

Errors "HEAT: Item NNN existiert nicht." and "RANKINGGROUP: Item NNN existiert nicht." fixed.

Version 11.73385

Released: Thursday, 2. June 2022

• Entries - Entry Exception Report

When there were no time standards to check, the maximum number of entries per athlete wasn't checked either.

• Entries - Wrong seeding with sessions with different number of lanes

For events with a fastest heat event in a session with a different number of lanes, the seeding was wrong.

• Report - DSV Master Points 2022

Points table with DSV Master Points 2022 (LCM and SCM) added.

Version 11.72268

Released: Friday, 4. March 2022

• Report - Error in Edit Point Score Definition

In some cases, the editor for point score definitions stopped with an error.

• Report - FINA Points 2022

Points table FINA 2022 LCM added.

• Report - New Point Scoring

German Rudolph 2022 added.

• Timing Systems - Wylas Interface

New values added to send to Wylas timing system. Import for split times and backup times added.

Version 11.71436

Released: Wednesday, 1. December 2021

• Results - Reserve on final result lists

When you have reserve swimmers defined for a final event, these were printed as "EXH" on the final result list.

• Report - CAN Para Points 2021

CAN Para Points 2021 added.

• Report - Combined events - by swimtimes

Combined events by swim times with a limited number of results from more events. If there was no time for a DSQ result, the calculation was incorrect.

Version 11.71238

Released: Monday, 15. November 2021

• Events - Data Exchange - Leverade

Minor updates to data exchange routines (invitation, entries, results) in order to make the interface more language independent.

• Events - Option to check timestandards for final seeding

New option to limit the final participants to athletes only, who achieved all timestandards.

• Report - Error when starting points calculator

The application crashed when starting the points calculator without having a meet database opened.

• Report - New features for Word referee report

The report can be created for all sessions now and there is a new table for the entry statistics by club.

Version 11.71110

Released: Tuesday, 2. November 2021

• Live / SplashMe - Updates and Corrections

Several changes in order to prepare more data for last heat results and point scores in SplashMe.

Version 11.71011

Released: Monday, 25. October 2021

• Entries - Error when change to "By Event" tab

When changing from any other tab to the "Entries by Event" tab and then select an event for the first time, an error my occure. This is fixed now.

• Entries - Startlist - Too many new pages

The check for new page before a new event was wrong. A new page started even then when there was still enough space for some heats.

• Report - SUI - Refree report

Printing this report fails, if the catalog with "Judge roles" for the current meet is empty.

Version 11.70661

Released: Thursday, 16. September 2021

• Entries - Empty pages on startlist

For open water events with waves (e.g. lanes 1-40) there may be unwanted empty pages before the first heat/wave was printed.

• Report - FINA Points 2021 SCM

Points table FINA 2021 SCM added.

• Report - Word reports fixed

With build 69991 there was a new error when you create word reports from templates when one of the replacement values was an url (e.g. http://....).

Version 11.69991

Released: Monday, 2. August 2021

• Events - Import catalog with judge roles

Importing judge rules in a non empty catalog failed.

• Records - Check for new records fixed

Some split times were not checked for new records, e.g. 100m fly in 400m Medley.

• Entries - Generate Entries from Results

A new function allows you to create/update entries in one event based on the results of any other event or a combined event.

• Results - Export WPS Excel Format

Swim time column corrected to export times as Excel datetime value with format "mm:ss.00" as in published template.

• Report - New layout column "birthdate"

New value "birthdate" added to be used in layouts for start and result lists.

• Report - Result places by athlete/club

Excel report with number of places per athlete and per club. It's like medals statistic but for places 1-25.

Version 11.69132

Released: Tuesday, 20. April 2021

• Report - Combined Events

Points for places by events (values per event) were not saved correctly.

• Timing Systems - Quantum Aquatics Interface

The latest version of the Quantum Aquatics software with the version 2 exchange protocol intrduced an incompatibility for the version 1 protocol. Compatibility code added to solve the problem on Meet Manager side.

Version 11.69080

Released: Thursday, 15. April 2021

• Results - Error in Clear Results

Clear results on whole session or event could cause an error when having individual and relay events in the same session.

• Report - Best Performance by Points

New option to use the manual points of each result for this report.

• Report - Export Point Scoring as text file

The dialog for the report point score by teams has a new option to export the points as text file.

• Report - Export Winners as Records

When there are medal ceremonies defined in the event structure, winners were exported twice as record lists.

• Report - Point Scoring Options

In a point score definition you can limit the number of results per team/event by stroke as well now.

• Report - Spanish Master Points

Spanish Master Points table added.

Version 11.68079

Released: Thursday, 7. January 2021

• Events - Combined Events with missing events

More errors fixed in combined events that appear after deleting events.

• Results - New KNZB Para Points Table

For the Netherlands the new KNZB Para Swimming Points were added.

• Results - Points columns added in CSV results

Two new columns with meet masters and disabled points added to the CSV results format.

• Report - FINA Points 2021 LCM

Points table FINA 2021 LCM added. Base times didn't change compared to table for 2020.

• Timing Systems - Swiss Timing Quantum Interface 2.0

A new interface to communicate with Swiss Timing Quantum was added. Instead of shared files, data exchange is done using UDP / TCP.

Version 11.67210

Released: Thursday, 5. November 2020

• Events - Combined events not saved

Due a new error, events selected in a combined event were not saved correctly.

• Events - Remove events in combined events

When deleting an event that is used in a combined event, the reference to this event was not removed correctly.

Version 11.67017

Released: Friday, 16. October 2020

• Entries - Import file with coaches fails

When you import an entry file with coaches, the application stops with an error.

Version 11.66982

Released: Thursday, 15. October 2020

• Error "ATHLETE: Item nnn does not exist"

This error occurs in different places after changing data. Should be fixed now.

• Error after Reorganize

Error after reorganize when starting the function in module "Entries".

Version 11.66909

Released: Friday, 9. October 2020

• Entries - Handling empty Entry Times (NT)

All empty entry times (e.g. from import) are set to NT so that these entries will be listed last.

Version 11.66822

Released: Monday, 5. October 2020

• Entries - Customized Seeding

New option to define seeding where only every second lane is used.

• Entries - Import seeding

New option to import heat and lane numbers from entry files.

• Results - Additional columns in CSV result exports

CSV Export with results have additional columns with times converted to LCM using the FINA points table.

• Results - New Point Scorings

New point scorings added:

- German Rudolph 2020

- Dutch Para Swimming 2020

• Report - Filter by Athletes / Clubs

Saved selections of filters could cause invalid reports when you deleted all athletes and clubs from a meet and added new ones.

• Report - FINA Points 2020 SCM

Points table FINA 2020 SCM added.

• Timing Systems - Colorado Dolphin Events file

The file DolphinEventList.csv will be exported in new format (version 5). The old format will be exported as DolphinEventList4.csv file.

• Turkish Translation

Turkish translation updated.

Version 11.58223

Released: Monday, 18. February 2019

• Entries - Reports - Sorting athletes

In some reports, sorting athletes by name was broken.

Version 11.57964

Released: Tuesday, 22. January 2019

• Records - Checking records changed

New option to define, if split times should be checked for records.

Start swimmer of mixed relay is never checked as record.

• Report - FINA Points 2019 LCM

Points table FINA 2019 LCM added.

Version 11.57658

Released: Monday, 17. December 2018

• Events - Events with custom disciplines

When importing entries for events with custom disciplins (match by unique id), all events matched the same disciplin.

• Events - Timestandards mixed relays

Timestandards can be defined for mixed relays.

• Entries - Calcluate Schedule - Backstroke

New option to define extra break for backstroke events.

Version 11.56278

Released: Sunday, 16. September 2018

• Results - Point Score Definition - Options

Points by places can be defined per event. Extra points per team are possible.

• Download base data Portugal

Download function for base data Portugal fixed.

• Selected Language Setting

The selected language was not saved correctly in all situations.

Version 11.55322

Released: Thursday, 2. August 2018

• Records - Export winners as recordlist

Relay swimmers were missing in the exported record lists.

• Records - Import - Nation / Region ignored

When importing a new record list from any source, the nation/region filter was not set correctly.

• Records - Import from Excel file

When reading records, the entire row is checked, if there are still records available and not only the first column.

• Entries - Order of entries on entry list

Entries on entry list can be sorted by level / disabilty code.

• Results - Export in CSV / TXT format

Column with athlete registration number added.

• Results - FINA Points SCM 2018

Points table "FINA Points SCM 2018" added.

• Results - Times rounded to tenths of second

Times can be handeled by 1/100 or 1/10 of a second now. Setting is "per session".

• Live / SplashMe - Naming of Lenex file

The internal name of a lenex result file (results.lxf) was corrected from ".lef" to "results.lef".

• Live / SplashMe - PDF Results on Swimrankings Server

When using swimrankings server for live results, performance and stability of the server was improved.

Version 11.47828

Released: Tuesday, 7. March 2017

• Entries - New seeding option

There is a new seeding option "seed late entries last".

• Report - New layout columns

New layout columns for entry qualification time and course added.

Version 11.47168

Released: Thursday, 26. January 2017

• Events - Export Hy-Tek .ev3 event file

New export feature to create a valid events file for Hy-Tek Team Manager (.ev3 file).

Version 11.43863

Released: Tuesday, 12. July 2016

• Events - Session - Judge role dropdown list

The dropdown list for judge roles on the session edit panel was not refreshed when another meet was reopened.

• Records - Lists with disabilty codes

New field for records to set disabilty codes. Import / export extended with Excel file format.

• Entries - Seeding with 3 lanes

Fixed seeding for slowest heat for pool with 3 lanes and 7 entries.

• Results - Export Results German DSV 6 Format

The age groups (lines with WERTUNG) were missing in the exported result files.

• Report - Comments on result lists

Long comments on result lists will were not wrapped to new lines.

• Timing Systems - Seiko PT-8000 Interface

Interface to timing system "Seiko PT-8000" added.

• FINA Points LCM 2016

Points table FINA 2016 LCM added.

• Timestandards with disablity

New filter for disabilty code added to timestandard lists.

Version 11.40736

Released: Saturday, 2. January 2016

• Events - Course 12.5 meter pool

Course for 12.5m pools added.

• Events - Disabilty Codes "AB" and "GB" not recognized

Disabilty Codes "AB" and "GB" were not correctly recognized anymore.

• Events - Order of items in roles drop down

The order of items in the role drop downlist in the jury panel was wrong. It should be the same as in the roles editor.

• Entries - Qualification time ignored

When importing entries from Lenex files, the qualification time was ignored during import.

• Entries - Swiss Team Chamionships Seeding

Error in cycle seeding for Swiss Team Chamionships fixed. Cyclic was only done within the same heat.

• Results - Manually entered split times not saved

Manually entered split times were not saved to the database correctly.

• Results - New layout column "Time behind"

New column type for time behind winner time added.

• Results - Progression in reports

Field "Progression" added to result reports, certificates layout and as columns in CSV results by athletes.

• Report - Font Color Certificates

When editing certificates, font color "black" is saved as "green".

• Report - Referee report Word

New variables added for endtime of session and table for all judges per session (see example word template - .dot file).

• Timing Systems - Error with Omega ARES 21 and finals

Reading results from finals / semi finals failed in any case. This error exists since build #38919 and should be fixed now.

• Timing Systems - Stramatel - Export data for final events

Entry data for final, semifinal and swim off events was not exported to meet.xml.

• Live / SplashMe - Support for https

All requests sent by Meet Manager to a Swimrankings server use https now.

• Error when changing to module "Entries"

No error when changing to module "Entries", tab "Entries by Events".

• FINA Points 2015

New FINA points SCM 2015 added. FINA points LCM 2015 corrected.

• German DSV 6 Format

New import / export routines for German DSV 6 format.

• Import base data Portugal

Corrected to import from new portuguese registration system. Old system/import source is not available anymore.

• KNZB - Import officals

When importing officials, the registration (sportlink id) is imported as well.

• Lenex export

Negative values for any kind of fees will be exported too.

• Missing scrollbars in lists

In some lists in some cases, vertical scrollbars were missing.

• Open Water - Codes added

New result state codes for open water swimming added: OTL and ADV.

• Rudolph Points 2015

New Rudolph Points 2015 added.

• Swiss Kids Ligue

* New type for "Swiss Kids Ligue - Team Cup"

* Regular result states for relay events.

* No check for club or gender in relays.

Version 11.38068

Released: Thursday, 2. July 2015

• Records - Wrong age on report "Records broken by Event"

In this report the current date (instead of the meet date) was used to calculate the age. This means, the age was wrong, if you printed the report again in the next year.

• Entries - Schedule not correctly calculated

Schedule calculation was broken with build 36477.

• Entries - Seeding by agegroups failed

In some cases, seeding by agegroups failed and no heats were generated.

• Entries - Special seeding for Russian Masters

Function for special seeding (according rules Russian Masters) added.

• Results - Athlete Progression Report - Missing percentage

Percentage is not printed for all results in detail report.

• Report - Dutch IPC Points

Dutch IPC points table added.

• Report - Pointscore by Teams

When selecting "details for each result" with many results, an empty page was printed before each club.

• Live / SplashMe - Application blocked during update

Meet Manager blocked randomly after activating live results when using the "last event / heat window".

• Live / SplashMe - Error when closing setup dialog

Fixed error on some computers when closing the live result setup dialog.

• Behaviour under Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 was not recoginized correctly by the latest versions. Therefore some behaviour with the taskbar icon and others were incorrect.

• FINA Points LCM 2015

New FINA points 2015 added.

Version 11.34686

Released: Monday, 5. January 2015

• Events - Adding record reference in event

Adding records or timestandards to an event fails.

• Events - Calculate schedule, new option

A new option allows to calculate the starttime of a session based on the end of the previous session.

• Events - Checkboxes in the event-mask

Checkboxes for the records in the event-mask now work again.

• Events - Error when adding jury member

Adding a new jury member in a session caused an access violation.

• Events - Export German "DSV Wettkampfdefinitionsdatei"

Export events and time standards in german DSV 5 format (Wettkampfdefinitionsdatei).

• Events - New filters for agegroups

- additonal filters for multiple nations, regions and clubs.

- additional filter for "levels". Levels are set per athlete as any character code.

• Records - Cannot save relay swimmers

Relay swimmers cannot be saved on older meet databases.

• Records - Error when adding record

When adding a record item, it may happen, that the records panel is not loaded correctly and you get an access violation.

• Records - Export Lenex Format

CLUB was not correctly exported when using the Lenex format. This error was introduced with build number 20948.

• Records - Gender of swimmers for mixed relays

For mixed relay records, the gender of the relay swimmer could not be edited.

• Records - Import from other meet - Splits and relay swimmers missing

When importing records directly from another meet database, then the split times and the relay swimmer names were not imported.

• Records - Record update function refined

Better recognition of records e.g. first swimmer in relay with DSQ after 3rd swimmer or split time record of athlete, who is not first at the end of the race.

• Records - Region Filter

Region filter was not use when checking for new records.

• Records - Relay swimmers lost during backup/restore

When doing a concurrent backup/restore of a meet, all relay swimmers in records will be lost during that process.

• Entries - Agegroup not recognized on import

When importing entries from a file, the agegroup for individual entries is not recognized correctly.

• Entries - Athlete fee "per session"

New optional fee per athlete for each session.

• Entries - Delete empty heat

Remove a single heat (empty or not empty) in "Entries by Event" view could fail.

• Entries - Empty Entry Form as Excel file

Create Excel Sheet as empty entry form with one column per event.

• Entries - Entry Confirmation Report - Application freeze

On some Windows installations, Meet Manager freezes completely. It's known to happen in this report but it may happen in other places as well.

• Entries - Export CSV format

Error fixed when exporting meet entries for meet with no relays.

• Entries - Final cycle seed

According to new FINA rules, only two heats will be cycle seeded for prelims with 400m or longer.

• Entries - Import english (international) names

English (international) names were not imported correctly.

• Entries - Import German DSV Entries corrected

DSV Entry files with custom events can be imported now, if a match by event number is possible.

• Entries - Missing fee on entry confirmation report

The fee "per athlete per session" was not counted in the total fee on this report.

• Entries - New keyboard shortcuts

Some new shortcuts added in module Entry. Check page in FAQ for details.

• Entries - Qualification Info improved

The qualification info dialog uses the correct entry time conversion for the event instead of the global values. Same for get qualification info task.