Enhancements

• Staging Grid - Timing Control - Behavior Change - for timers that provide separate Start and Finish triggers the iterating times that were displayed for each entry on course in previous versions have been replaced by more informative tags.  These tags are T-1, T-2, T-3,.. etc. that represent the respective timer and car on course.  T-1 is for next car to finish, T-2 is the 2nd car to finish, etc. Essentially. The iterating times in the Time field was less informative and harder to visualize which time went with which car.  The new tags are meant to help identify the car on course more easily and quickly.
• Report Directory - if the report directory does not exist, it will be reset to the Data Directory. The Report Directory is retained for future reports when any report is printed to a Text or HTML file.
• Printing and Pax Classes - improved the report when the Print Class Headers on Reports setting is OFF. Several reports including the Paid and Final Results did not output the complete class information unless Print Class Headers on Reports setting was ON. Now, if the headings are not printed the report outputs the entire class designation and handles proper high and low color control in the HTML output.
• Insert/Edit/Copy & Insert dialogs - entering data into the pax prefix, class and car number no longer force the "Continue if Modified" prompt. These fields are keys to entry definitions and thus are treated differently than any other data column.  If any other data column is modified the prompt will appear as expected.
• Time Slips - The size of the driver and car model output on the time slips is not limited to the configured width of these data columns as set in the Column Settings tab.
• YEP Points and Pax Points - both the Points and Pax Points settings tab has a new setting that allows you to force the final Year End Points (YEP) to only consist of Members.
• Points Reports - The Ladies and Rookies sections in the points reports are optionally, however they used to print regardless of whether or not any entries qualified.  Now the sections print only when necessary.
• Heat Assignments - when a heat is selected for a Pax class that had the "Span Base Classes" active, the appropriate totals and check boxes are set respectively. Prior to this, the "Span Base Classes" check box had to be un-checked prior to selecting another heat for that pax class.
• Print Templates - to help reduce the print area on reports and extend the functionality for Labels, several combination fields have been provided. This includes "Class, Number", "Car Model, Color", "Tire Brand, Size", "Region, Division".  The combination options allow for additional data to be printed specifically on Labels since they are essentially single column outputs.
• Loading Files - when loading Events or Membership files, additional information is now provided with respect to new features and new settings that have been added since that file touched.  A dialog will display a listing of categories that contain settings that have been added. Depending on the list, settings should be adjusted accordingly.  This is especially true when Membership files are associated with Events.
• Networking - improved the programs responsiveness to the mouse or keyboard during heavy data exchanges. This was only evident when thousands of updates were being handled and does not impact normal data exchanges.
• Staging - Data Recovery - improved the checking of redundant data during the recovery process. This will reduce the number of redundant entries that may have been recovered using prior versions. 

Fixed

• Pax Prefix missing in reports. If the Print Class Headers on Reports settings is OFF, the Pax Prefix did not print for many of the Event based reports. 
• Re-Class Pax Entry - a collision could result if the target entry already exists. with the same Pax prefix, base class and car number.
• Staging - Unique Car Numbers Active - if entering car numbers manually,  the Run Number would at times not be calculated properly. Workaround was to reset the run numbers for the affected entries.
• Mailing Labels - an extra label could be printed when a dedicated label printer was used.
• Column Preferences - the check boxes for the Column Preferences could get out of synch in rare instances. This would require that a column must be set on, exit the dialog, then set Off as desired.
• Heat Assignments - an extraneous (invalid) row could appear in the table (it did not impact any classes or functionality).
• 3 New Data Fields -
  • Importing or Auto-populating Membership data - the 3 New extended data columns would not be imported into an event via the auto-populate function when creating a new event nor when using the Import/Membership Data.
  • Export from an Event to Membership - same problem.
• Windows XP - Silver Color scheme - column and row selection highlights were not visible due to the color selections for the highlight. That is no longer the case.
• Networking - when modifying an existing Stage Entry, the run number may not have been updated immediately.  As a workaround, to force the Run Number  to update, use the Staging Function, Reset current Entry's Run Number was required if you require the data to immediately
• Template Dialog - if an event was loaded from one directory, with templates assigned, and another event was then loaded from a different directory in which these templates did not exist did not display an error. To handle this problem, if the template file does not exist, the Active Template File in the dialog will be blank.
• Networking - Timer Server & Admin Client - Deleting Rows from the Staging grid could result in a repeated exchange between the Timing Server and Admin Client.  The deletions would be re-send to each other continuously. Workaround: End and restart the Networking modes for both the Admin Client and Timing Server Modes.

Version 5.20.012

New Functionality

• Check For Updates command  - an Update Manager dialog that will allow you to check for updates, including the Service Contract validity/activation, and control the downloading and installation of updates, your license file and optionally any Pre-releases.  Connectivity to the Internet will be required, and once downloaded, the downloads will be stored in the installation folder (more details pending) and may be copied to other machines in your installation.  The Manager will download and optionally install the items.  All downloaded files will be stores in a new directory named: "<install directory>\_updates\".  You can selectively install the items manually or via manager.
• 3 More Optional Data Columns (non NCCC Versions) - due to popular requests, the 3 more optional data columns were created.  There default mappings are: Locale (akin to the SCCA requirement for location information on reports - normally contains State + city), Opt1 and Opt2 that can be used as necessary. The Optional Column Setup tab as well as all other column controls support these new fields. Their default order is just ahead of the Timing columns. That order may be changed by using the Drag-drop column re-ordering functions.
• Events:
  • Import Membership Manager - a new twist to the File/Import/Membership Data command. This new dialog allows you to control how and what entries are imported from a Membership File to an Event.  An interactive dialog allows you to set Default Actions and selectively import entries at any time.  New entries can be created and existing ones reset (modified) or ignored.  The concept is similar to the "Export To Membership File" and "Update Points Manager".
  • Export To Membership File - the File/Export File/To Membership File, provides an interactive dialog that allows you to control various options for exporting entries to the Membership File.  You can specify match criteria, exporting members only (or everybody), whether only base data columns or all data columns are to be exported, etc.  The dialog provides a table, similar to the "Updates Points Manager", that allows you to control the export more directly and explicitly.
  • Edit Member Data from Edit/Insert/Copy & Insert Dialogs - in addition to providing access to the 3 new data columns (non NCCC version) the dialogs also provide a Edit Member Data Dialog, accessed by a button.  The data is access via a button so that the membership data does not obscure the data that is important for Registration.  The Membership file associated with the event is the source of the Membership Data.  The entry that is displayed is based on the "Class + Driver Name".  In additional to entering or modifying the Membership Data fields, it can also be used to imported them into the Event entry record (optional data columns).  Please refer to the documentation for additional information (topic Editing Member Data from an Event).
• Column Preferences Dialog - Hide/View Column control - for the Registration and Membership Grid.   This dialog enhances the control of what columns are hidden or viewed in the Registration and Membership Grids.  Each data column is represented by a check box and control which data columns are in view and which are hidden.  The dialog can be accessed via the View menu or by using the Right-Mouse function while focus is set on the Heading Columns.

• Behavior Change - Importing Registrations and Memberships - when importing registrations, the following automated controls are now in place:
  • Class: rows that do not specify a class will default to "<unknown>" (it will automatically be defined if it is not already).
  • Numbers: if not specified, they default to the  next available car number in the class starting with the "Seed Car Number" (if one is specified. The "Seed Car Number" is in the Setup/Options/Event Settings tab.
• Staging Tracing Log - all data columns are now saved in the background logging process.  This includes the additional statistics for each run.  Although this doesn't add additional value to the Recovery Process, it does provide a more informative log.
• Sizing Columns -  when resizing data in the Registration or Membership Grids, when the size is reduced to hide the column or a hidden column is expanded, the Hide/View settings are affected respectively.  Columns may be resized by dragging the Column border and dragging the column to a new position. Note: to auto-adjust the column sizes to their content, use the "Reset Column Widths Auto-Adjust" function.
• Edit/Insert/Insert & Copy Dialogs - several improvements dealing with selection of entries when entering new class or car number information. The dialogs now presents a dialog that will require an acknowledgement when data has been modified and the class or car number field has been altered.  In addition, more informative errors are presented when Unique Car Numbers is active and an entry already exists by that designation. The changes provide better control when the dialog buttons (Previous, Next, Save, Register) are pressed immediately after changing the class or car number information.  
• File/SaveAs - when saving an event or Membership file to another directory, the auto-helper that copied related and linked files did not copy the print templates.  In this version, any print template that is found in the source data directory will also be copied to the new directory. 

Version 5.20.010

New Functionality

• Printing Functionality - *** Behavior Change ***
  • Printer Setup - removed from the File menu (it is not longer applicable).
  • Label Printer Functionality - new Portrait and Landscape configuration buttons have been added to the Setup/Options/Printer Settings tab to help configure the label printer from within the application. (label size and other printer settings MUST be properly configured in Windows).  These settings affect Registration labels and Time Slips.  It is now possible to select the printer orientation from within the program and alter it as necessary, without modifying the default printer settings for the label printer.  Registration labels are printed from Events and Mailing Labels from the Membership File.
  • Print All Heats - a new Report menu option (Print/All Heats in Run Order) allows you to print all Heats at one time. The IE Preview window will display a report for each heat and you must use the Forward and Back buttons to move between them and print them explicitly.
  • Printing Grid Assignments reports - the Grid Assignments reports are generated using the Print menu in the dialog.  The new format prints each heat on a separate page and forces individual reports to be viewed. The IE Preview window will display a report for each heat and you must use the Forward and Back buttons to move between them and print them explicitly.
  • Printing Work Assignment Reports - the Work Assignments reports are generated using the Print menu in the dialog.  The new format prints each heat on a separate page and forces individual reports to be viewed. The IE Preview window will display a report for each heat and you must use the Forward and Back buttons to move between them and print them explicitly.
  • Print Label Hotkeys - new hotkeys have been implemented to allow printing of registration or mailing labels from each respective grid (using Alt+L) and via new right-mouse functions (Print Label). The hotkeys are identical to selecting the 'Print Labels for Selected Entries' menu function except that the 'quick printer' method does not pop up the Print Dialog box.  If you select to printer labels from the menu, the print dialog will appear and allow you to make configuration changes (these changes will not impact the default print orientation set in the Setup/Options/Printer Settings).
• DNF Points Assignment  - *** Behavior Change ***
  • If Total Time = DNF, allow the assigning of a minimum point value for the entry (rather than 0, as it did in prior versions).  The settings are controlled independently between Points and Pax Points. The following applies:
    • Fixed Points configurations, the Default Points will be assigned .
    • Percentage based configurations, the Minimum Points will be allocated.
• Edit/Insert/Copy and Insert Dialogs - new 'Print Label' button will also print the registration label for Event Files and Mailing Labels for Membership files, respectively.
• Percentage Points Calculation - an alternative Percentage points formula has been put into place. The Setup/Option/Points  allows you to selected between the standard formula and the one below.  The Points value is calculated by the following. 
  • New formula: Total Points = 100.00 - (900.00 * (Total Time - First Place Time) / First Place Time))
  • Minimum Points attribute is provided and if the Total Points is lower, the Minimum Points takes precedence (by default set to 20).
  • Standard % formula: Total Points = First Place Time / Total Time * 100.00;
• Points Reports - added a new check box for allowing you to conditionally scrambling the names on Points Reports.  The new setting can be found in the Setup/Options/Print Settings.
• Status Logs Copy and Clear - the items listed in the Status logs can now be cleared or copied to the clipboard. To execute either of these functions, set your focus to the desired status log, and press the right-mouse button, a small menu will these functions.

Enhancements

• Paid Data Columns (Events)
  • Paid check box - if checked, the entry is automatically registered (if they are not already).  Un-checking the Paid data column has no  affect on the Registration flag.
  • Amnt. Paid - entering any value into the Amnt. (amount paid) data column will increment the the Paid Count and set the Registration Flag for the entry as needed. Entering '0' will force this behavior as well. If the amount if deleted (cleared), the Paid column will be unchecked and the number of paid entries decremented accordingly. The Registration Flag will be left unchanged and if the entry is to be un-registered, the entry must be un-registered explicitly.
• NCCC Points
  • FTD and OFTD - adjusted to properly calculate the points for single car classes.  FTD = max of 10 race points, OFTD = max 11 for classes with more than 1 car.  For 1 car classes, the points are based on the Race Points.
  • Reports - minor width adjustments for HTML generated reports for improved format.
  • Worker Points - are now included in the Club Points calculations.  As a result, the Worker points must be assigned to the respective entries prior to completing the Club Points. In addition, From the Assign Club Points a new Consolidate Work Points button is introduced.  This button is used to tally the Travel and Worker points. 
  • Club Points:
    • Report - no longer prints clubs that have 0 points.  This allows you to retain NCCC Club Names and Club Number mappings in the Club Points file without the need to delete the nor participating clubs. This should help to promote a master Club file that contains a mapping of every club.
    • Table Ordering - the sponsoring club is now placed at the top of the table (by default).
    • Sorting Club Points Table - the club points table can now be sorted on any column in the grid.  In addition, Reports will be generated based on the last selected sort column.  By default however, each time you run the Assign Race Points from the Club Points dialog, the sort order is automatically selected to be the Total Points column.  In all likely hood the sponsoring club will contain the highest number of points (100) and will therefore be on row 1 of the grid.
  • Points menu order - The order of the Points Menu and NCCC Reports Wizard have been adjusted accordingly to help with the proper actions at the proper time.
  • Travel Points  - in the case where the Event is not purged of non-racing entries, a club would also obtain points for entries that did not race but were in the registration list.  This is no longer the case.
  • Chairperson - provided a new setting that allows the Chairperson to take Race Points or the 1st place points positions.
  • Excluding classes from Points - the Exclude data column in the Class Definitions Table is now being used for Excluding NCCC Race Points for each entry in the respective classes. In summary, the exhibition classes  are excluded from FTD and OFTD points and will always obtain the default points (in 2005 that was 3). The amount allocated is determined by the Setup/Options/Points, "Default Points" setting.
  • Event Number change - the Registration Grid is automatically reset when the Event Number is changed between 1 and other #'s. For races that are set to Event #1, the Travel Points column is displayed and used in the Total Points calculations. For all other events, the Travel column is not a part of the grid and as such travel points are not calculated.  Note: as per the NCCC rules, Travel points are only calculated for the first Event of each race day.
  • NEW - DNC - Do-Not-Count Penalty definition: Optional definition used instead of a DSQ. Enter a DNC into the Setup/Options/Penal Assignments,  Disqualified Abbreviation field to provide a means to discount runs for an entry.  To discount an entry from the event/race, enter "dnc" in any run in the Staging Grid for the person, and ALL the runs for that entry will not be counted in the results.  The entry will appear in the last position in the class, and will exclude them from FTD and OFTD. To reset the penalty, simply delete or modify it to the appropriate value (normal penalty).
• NCCC Final Report:
  • Total NCCC Entries and Total Entrants counts - were modified to reflect the counts only for NCCC entries (and those registered).  The recommendation prior to this was to delete all NON-racing entries so that only those registered for the event are considered.  In practice this is not always practical and thus the adjustments were required.

Version 5.20.008

New Functionality

• NEW - Admin Client Network mode - a new Networking Client has been created that allows you to administer the event as well as provide Audit Control as necessary. The Admin Client has access to most program functionality much like the Timing Control Server, and thus it should be used with care. The Admin client can be used to control registration, work assignments, heat assignments, Audit Control. The Audit Client allows you to administer the  staging grid from a Client node, relieving the Timing Control Server to continue with it's normal operations.  Thus penalty counts, even times may be modified as necessary. PLEASE read the Help Documentation before using.
• NEW KEY CHANGES - Standard hot keys - Alt-F4 and Ctrl-F4 are supported.  Alt-F4 exists the application and Ctrl-F4 closes the active event or membership file. NOTE: the Find Next/Previous functions in the Staging Grid were changed to SHIFT-F3 and SHIFT-F4 respectively to achieve the standard key support.
• Tag Heuer Smart Display 996 - special initialization string send to the display to switch it into normal display mode. Custom Display EPROM required a jump start to allow the display to function when not connected directly to a Tag Heuer Timer.
• Time Slip Templates - allows Templates to be used for Time Slips in order to customize the time splits. Long and short versions are supported to allow single line labels as well as multi-line labels (currently max of 4 lines).  The Print Settings options, Print Multi-Line time slips check box dictates which version will be used.

Enhancements

• Paid Event Report - the paid report listed only those that paid.  It now outputs anybody that was registered and their payment information.
• Deleting Entries  - when the Ctrl-D or delete entries was executed, some other row is selected as the row in focus. In some situations, although the row had focus, it was not 'selected' for additional deletions. Thus repeating the Ctrl-D (delete entries) command would not delete the row.
• Print Settings - added the *.html file specifier in the Include Header/Include Footer browse control.
• Default Application Focus - the application now has focus immediately after startup that allows hot keys to be used, including Ctrl-O and F1 (help), etc...
• Work Assignments - extended sorting capabilities to that allow ascending and descending sorts to flip order if the same column is double clicked consecutively. The Heat Number remains constant, while the selected column sorts.
• Grids & Editing - the Event or Membership grid would place the focus on the 1st character of a data field (string based, non check box, or pull-down list fields only). This was modified to place the focus following the last character.
• Staging Grid - Time data column is consistently right justified.
• Registration/Standings Grid (Event data)- All Time based columns are now right justified.
• Membership/Points Fields - All Points based columns are now right justified.
• Printing Reports - printing to a File or HTML file saves the Last location as the default Report location. All other reports (not part of the normal Reports menu are NOT affected and still use the data directory as their default path).
• JA Circuits 'Reset Stop' functionality - the Reset Stop command may or may not have been working with Chrono-mode timers.  This command was only handled in non-Chrono-mode-timer mode due to it's expected use.  It appears that many JA Circuits timers in Chrono-timer mode use this command also and thus the software not handles it in both modes.
• Race America Digital Display M:SS.FFF support - output to digital displays can now support both sss.fff and m.ss.fff formats. Prior to this release, only the sss.fff output format was used. New Port and Timer Settings option was introduced to allow you to select which format best suits your requirements.
• Class Definitions - if a class was deleted from the Class Definition Table  the delete class would still show up in Class pull-down lists throughout the application.
• Auto-Completion
  • Behavior Change - auto completion in the Grids no longer sets the edit position to the end of the data. Rather it sets the edit position to the 1st character. Thus if you set focus (move to) a grid cell that provides auto-complete (i.e. Work Assignment in the Registration Grid, or Car number & Class in the Staging Grid), typing a new character will 'overwrite' the existing selection.  This is similar to setting focus on normal edit controls where the entire field is initially selected. To edit the field (modify the contents), rather than overwriting the field complete, you must use the cursor or mouse to select the desired characters.
  • Staging Grid - Class data field - allows selective activation of auto-completion. This is to remedy situations where the auto-complete displays data that must be modified often.  Auto-completion is to help data entry by offering recommendations for valid and existing data.  In some circumstances, where the Registrations are not strictly controlled, the suggested data items may not be conducive to quick data entry.  If for example, you do control your registrations via Registration flag in the Registration Grid.  In this case, the Class data fields can pop up any existing classes leading to overzealous suggestions.  The Setup/Options/Event Settings contains the new Auto-Completion check box.
• Event - File/Import/Registrations - this import process may be used to include event files also (*.rgg). This is possible since the import process reads the mapping columns accordingly. Prior to this release however, if the *.rgg file contained timing data, the Total Time column was also imported. This is no longer the case.

Version 5.20.007

New Functionality

• NEW - Print Templates - this new functionality provides flexibility in customizing the print formats for all the reports.  The templates allow you to select data columns and their location within each record of the report.  Built-in templates provide the default and existing report formats.  A Print Template Dialog allows you to select and assign custom templates for any report and provides mechanisms to create and save the templates.  Inherently, the timing and penalty columns, as well as all points columns are controlled automatically due to their dynamic nature. Several reports, including the Final Results and Points and Pax Points reports have special provisions for controlling 'custom columns' that are not part of the normal grid.
• Car Numbers - car numbers can be designated with 'A'-'Z' post-fixes. Prior versions supported only 'A'-'D'.

Enhancements

• Heat By Car Number Control - due to the Car Number support of 'A'-'Z' designations, the heat control was simplified. Groups of cars are assigned to a specific car number subset.  This includes those with 'A'-'Z' designations.  Please see the documentation for additional information.
• Trigger Resets:
  • AC4 and JACircuits - improved handling of Start and Finish timer resets was made for both of these timers. improved handling of Start and Finish timer resets was made for both of these timers.
  • Reset Finish - could clear one finish too many.  This occurs when the Maximum number of configured timers (cars on course) has been reached, and a reset occurs. The proper behavior is to ignore the reset, however, in prior versions, the previous finish was still cleared (one row above the next car to finish). The side-affect of this that the after all the current cars have completed their runs, the following car's finish will be placed into that row.
• Session Control Mode - auto time slips updated to include the Session Number.
• Auto-time Slip Printing - minor change that deactivates the auto time slip printing during a Re-Accept and Re-Number All runs processes.
• Staging Grid - overwriting a Re-Run penalty by an OFF penalty would not pop up the acknowledgement dialog for Off Course penalties. (the terms used are for Default penalty assignments - if you have re-assigned your penalties, please use the appropriate mapping).
• Membership Grid - Auto-completion - completed the auto-completion to the Membership Grid for in-place editing of cells that provide Pull-Down lists. 
• Membership Types and Payments Types - modifying the Membership Types and Payments types was only possible via the Registry editor in Windows. Although the settings could be changed in the AXWAREW.INI file, they were ignored due to imbedded <CR> characters (delimiters) in the definitions. The delimiters have been changed to ';' and the definitions can now be modified in the INI file as necessary.  Once modified, the INI may be imported and made active via the Setup/Import Option Settings.
• Reports & Print Setup Dialog - more consistent handling of printer selections when multiple printers have been configured,  especially when a dedicated label printer and normal printer are being managed.  In some cases, the default printer was inadvertently set to the label printer, an undesired circumstance.  
• Loading Membership and Event Files - enhanced the processing of the Column Mapping row. Now, blank column headings in the mapping row will be ignored and the rest of the mappings processed. Prior to this version, the processing of the column mappings stopped if a blank column was encountered. Note: a blank means that no column heading was found between 2 tab characters. 
• Printing Bar Codes - prior to this release the output could be directed to a file which is no longer the case.  All Bar Code printing is not directly explicitly to the printer.  If you desired to have the output saved to a file please use the Windows functionality from the standard Print Dialog.
• NCCC Race Points - improved the performance and consistency of the OFTD and FTD control.
• Print Work Assignments - Form Feeds were re-introduced for Print To File command.  The default Print and Print to HTML by default does not support Form Feeds (those are handled dynamically via the HTML printing process - a standard HTML).

Version 5.20.006

New Functionality

• ICard Module - added Heat based control for iCard.  This provides a reduced number of classes and entries that are fed to iCard and helps reduce the resource requirements in iCard GameBoy.  Please see the documentation for additional iCard information.

Enhancements

• IE Printing Support - on machines that are were not connected to the WEB when installing Windows, Internet Explorer will not be configured completely.  In v5.20.005, program could experience a never ending wait state as it attempts to initialize, due to an unresponsive Internet Explore object. This enhancement will determine this state correctly and revert to the older style of printing (no print preview, nor flexibility in printing).   
• iCard Module - improve the Feeds to iCard by providing additional data.  Optimized the data feds to reduce the amount of data sent to iCard. Prior to this, additional data was sent but not required.
• Registration Paid  Report - prints the report based on the active sort field. Prior to this the driver's name was automatically selected as the sort order.
• Main Menu - menu changes.  Bar Code and iCard Modules now have their own menus, that contain Configuration dialogs and all respectively.
• New Print Options - a Print Class Headers option was added to the Print Setting tab. This allows you to selectively activate or turn off the class headings in report. These headings display the class information, number of trophies etc. When off, this line is omitted.

Version 5.20.005

New Functionality

• New Printing Control - a new print control using Windows Internet Explorer technology, provides access to browser style print dialog. It provides Print Preview and 5 font options when printing and back and forward buttons to move between reports.  Most reports are new generated as HTML reports in the background and displayed in the print dialog.  They are identical to the reports generated by the "Print to Web (HTML) file" command.  Please see the help documentation for additional information.
• Data storage change - the Even and Membership files are now stored as tab delimited files rather than tag delimited.  The data tags used in prior versions (5.10.x and earlier) are no longer used and loading Events or Membership Files is automatically managed. The new data format uses the 1st line of the files as the Data Column Mappings row, much like the format used for Importing data. The order is un-important but the mapping must be identical the Headings used in each type of grid.  To support this new format, the Runs and Penalty columns have been changed slightly for both normal and 2 day events.
• IMPORTANT - Driver Name split into First and Last Name:
  • To extend the functionality of the software and for future considerations, the Driver Name is now split into First and Last Name fields.
  • When loading Events or Membership files created by prior versions of the software, the Driver Field will be loaded and MUST be split into First and Last Name fields, respectively. 
    • 2 Functions will exist as Right-Mouse functions on the Heading lines in the Registration and Membership Grids, is the Driver Name field is found.
      1. Function #1 will allow you to split the Driver Name into the First and Last Names.  The split will occur on white space (space, coma, semi-colon) preceding the last word in the Driver Name.  Since the source Driver Name may be in First-Last or Last-First order itself, a dialog will be presented to allow you to specify with order is used.  Select the appropriate order and press the SLIT button.  Ex: "Joe R. Quick", results in First name = "Joe R." and Last Name = "Quick".
      2. Once the name split is completed, the Driver Name column should be deleted. The program will only use the First and Last Name fields in all processing.
  • New Name Formatting: control driver names in First-Last or Last-First name formats. See the Setup/Options/Print Settings for additional info. Once your desired format is selected the Staging Grid, and all reports will contain the name the selected format.
• Class Group Definitions - The Class Definitions now supports Groups of Class based on a group name.  Each group accumulates Top Times for each event, and automatically includes 2 built in groups: Top Time of Day (Fast Time Of Day) and Pax Top Time, as overall statistics.  The Registration Window contains a list box to display the Top Times. To view the entire list, double click on any row of the list box.  The groupings are automatically included in the Final Results.
• Program Settings INI - program settings are now saved automatically to an AXWAREW.INI file in the installation directory. This file may be moved to another computer and imported to help retain common existing settings.  This may be helpful when moving data between your timing computer and data storage computer if you want to retain the exact configuration (with respect to the license agreement). Note: the INI file is not required when using the Networking nodes since they all obtain their configurations from the loaded Event file.
• Grid Column Order - the Event and Membership files now support moving of many of the data columns.  In addition to column moving, you can also reset the order to the default order by using a new right-mouse button function. The "Reset Column Order to Default" command is accessible when the focus is set to the Heading rows of the Event or Membership Grid.
  • Events:  excluded columns include the class, car number and all timing columns
  • Membership: similarly the class, car number and all points columns are excluded.
  • The settings are stored as a PC centric preference (and saved in the AXWAREW.INI). Views may differ on different machines but may be synchronized by using the AXWAREW.INI import. Please see the documentation for more information about the AXWAREW.INI features.
• Auto-Complete support added to all Pull-Down data fields in Grids - all grids in the now support the auto-completion editing. This lets you type a value and if a match (partial of complete) is found in the option list, it will be displayed and activated. You may still use the normal list selection control as well.
• Unique Bar Code Values - can now be forced across all entries and the value remains 'glued' to the entry.  A new option has added to the Bar Code Setup dialog (Setup/Bar Code Setup) that allows you to select unique Bar Code values.  The values are unique until either reset manually (from within the Bar Code Setup dialog) and can be 000000 to 999999.
  • Behavior Change: If Unique Bar Code value is active, and entries with blank Bar Code Values are loaded from the Membership of Event file, the values are not generated automatically.  Use the Bar Code Menu/Regenerate Bar Code Values or Edit the entry to assign values to those entries. On the contrary,  if the Unique Bar Code Value is in-Active, blank bar codes are automatically reset when loaded.
  • The Bar Unique Barcode values allow the value to stick with each entry even if they are reclassed or changed. This helps preserve labels respectively.

Enhancements

• 2 Day Events - when starting a new 2 day event with an existing event active, the Race Day pull-down was not activate until the event was re-loaded. By default, Day 1 was always selected as the active day.
• Number of Corners in Work Assignments - the value stored in the configuration (registry and INI file) was slightly misleading although functionally correct. The value in the settings is now the actually number of corners (prior to this it was the 0 based pull-down selection number).
• Printing Final Results - several format improvements: reduce wasted blank space, new font control for HTML output, improved 2 day event formatting and the addition of "day1" and "day2" designations to clarify the results (more important for events that did not run the same number of runs each day).
• Staging Grid
  • Car Color Column -  the car color column is an optional column for both the Registration and Staging grids. You can now selectively turn this on and off while an event is loaded and the columns will be manipulated appropriately in both grids. Prior to this the Staging grid was not automatically adjusted, until the event was re-loaded.
  • Pax Class - auto-filling Car Number - when a class is entered and only 1 car is registered for it, the car number field is automatically filled in with that car number. Prior versions did not do this for Pax Classes but do now.
  • Car Number -> Class staging order - if only 1 class is available for the specified car number, and the class field is currently blank, the class is automatically filled in. All other cases still require an edit or selection from the pull-down.
  • Highlighting of the Last Car to Finish - the row on which the last time was recorded is now highlighted in a bright green.  This may help in tracking the currently running cars.  Hint: the following hot keys may help in focus placement: (from Documentation - Timing Cheat Sheet)

  • '\'	Positions focus to last entry in the grid.
    '/'	Positions focus to the next car to finish, otherwise it's the next entry slot.
    '.'	Positions focus to 2nd car to finish. (period)
    ','	Positions focus to the 3rd car to finish. (coma)

• Class Definitions Dialog - when a Pax Factor = 0.000 is entered, the Pax check box is automatically checked and set to READ ONLY. A non 0.000 value must entered into the Pax Factor for the Pax check to be reactivated.
• New Event Dialog - added tool-tips for all controls (which were not present prior to this version).