Build Heats Manaually

Manual Assignment of Entrants (Build-Heats Manually).

This section describes how to manually build heats using the ellipse button and hand placing nominees.

Note that in the Entrant's Name cell, you can't edit the swimmer's name. The only active part is the ellipse button, which is located at the far end of the cell.

The ellipse button has two methods activated by LMOUSE click or CNTRL+LMOUSE click.

Info: To navigate too the ellipse button, use the mouse. Select the swimmer (or empty lane), then the ellipse will appear.

Ellipse button. Method 1.

LMOUSE click the ellipse button to open the Quick Pick Nominee dialogue.

The swimmers listed in this dialogue are all nominees that haven't been given a lane in the current selected event.

If the quick-pick list is empty, then every nominee has a lane.

Clicking a column heading will sort by that column. Click again will invert the sort.

If the list is very long, then use the search box. It used wildcards, so you only a need snippet of the nominee's name. It reacts in real time to your key strokes. To see the full list again, clear the search box.

The TimeToBeat, PersonalBest, AGE and Gender will give you useful information on whom to pick and where to place in the current selected heat.

👉 DOUBLE LMOUSE click on the chosen record to place the nominee into the lane.

👉 Or select nominee then click the Post button.

👉 To close the dialogue without making any changes, click the Cancel button.

If the lane is filled with a swimmer prior to opening the Quick-Pick dialogue, then the swimmer get's 'bumped' out of the lane and is replaced with the selected nominee. The 'bumped' swimmer will be returned to the nominee's stack, awaiting a lane assignment.

When the lane is empty, prior to opening the Quick-Pick, then that lane will be filled with the nominee you chose.

Ellipse button. Method 2.

This method differs in that you CNTRL-LMOUSE click the cell's Ellipse button to open the Quick Pick Member dialogue.

This dialogue may appear very similar to method 1, but if you look closely you'll notice that the title is different. Also the list is likely to be significantly larger.

The functionality of this dialogue is identical to the previous (method 1).

This dialogue displays all active club members who do swim with one exception - Members who have been given a lane in the current selected event are excluded.

The semantics is different...

If you assign a member from this list to a lane then you have also nominated that member for the event. 'Two birds with one stone'. You created both a nominee and an entrant.