Creating a New Competition

A new competition is created by using the screen shown below. When creating a new competition a short name for the competition as well as a start date and end date must be entered before ScoreManager will save the competition. These boxes are outlined in red to help you remember that they must be filled with information.

The Competition Long Name, Location and Organiser are optional fields and may be left empty. The Start Date and Finish Date must be entered in the format of dd/mm/yyyy for them to be correctly recognised by ScoreManager. The maximum number of characters that you can enter in each field is shown in brackets at the right hand side of the field involved.

Clicking on the button Show Advanced Settings will let you see and change the advanced settings for this competition. To learn more about these advanced settings see the section on Configuring ScoreManager. Clicking on the button Hide Advanced Settings will once again hide the advanced settings for this competition.

Once you have entered all the information about the new competition, click Create in the menu bar. A small message will appear asking whether you would like to create the grades for this competition now.

Selecting yes will cause another window to appear from which you can select the disciplines you would like included in the competition and whether you would like to use the standard grades which you created when configuring ScoreManager.

A message will appear after the grades have been created and you will be asked whether you wish to change the current competition to the competition you have just created.

You will be returned to the main ScoreManager menu where you will see the competition name and number of entries displayed as the Current Competition in the upper half of the screen

If you click on the Competitions button in the main menu you will see your new competition displayed in the list of competitions you can work with