Creating Grades for a Competition

 

Grades can be created at two points in the process of setting up your competition. The most commonly used, and recommended, point is during the process of creating a new competition however you can also create grades after a competition has been created. When creating grades for your competition you can choose to use the standard grades which have previously configured in the ScoreManager Settings or new grades which will need to be configured after they have been created.

 

Standard grades are stored by ScoreManager and can be used as templates for grades in new competitions but New grades are not stored and must be configured each time they are created.

 

When Creating the Competition

 

As seen in the section on Creating a New Competition, grades can be created during the process of creating a new competition. At this point in the process you will be able to select the disciplines for you want to create grades as well as choosing which type of grades you want.

 

 

 

 

The name of the competition for which the grades are being created

Select the disciplines for which you want to create the grades. More than one discipline can be selected at the same time but at least one discipline must be selected in order for any grades to be created

Selecting either Standard or New here will determine which type of grades are created.

 

By selecting Standard you will be able to use the grades which you have defined as standardised or default grades without any further set up.

 

If you select New, however, the grades will be created with any descriptive names and you will have to enter a name for each of grade you wish to use. These New grades will created with the default settings you configured for new competitions and grades. Remember though that if you change these default settings after you have created the grades for a competition the new default settings will not change the settings for any grades already created. The change will only affect new grades being created.

 

After creating the grades for the competition, ScoreManager will send you a message confirming which will tell which type of grades have been created and the disciplines for which they have been created.

 

 

 

After a Competition Has Been Created

 

It is possible to create a new competition without creating its grades at the same time. To create grades for the competition at a later time you will need to make the competition the Current Competition and then open the Before Competition menu and click on Competition Grades. This will bring up the screen shown below which shows that no grades exist for the competition in question.

 

 

Grades can then be created by clicking on the Create Grades button and the same screen we saw when creating grades with a new competition appear. You can thenselect your disciplines and the type of grade required in the same way.

 

Creating New Grades

 

When you create New grades they are created with out any descriptive names. A name must be entered for each grade you wish to use otherwise the grade will not appear in the lists of grades when entering athletes or scoring the competition. The names for each grade can be entered by either clicking on the Quick Edit button in the menu bar or by clicking on the Edit button (pencil) to the left of the grade you want. See the section Changing a Grade's Settings to find out how to do this.