Tournament Keeper: What's new in version 6.1, 6.0

 

 

Version 6.1

6/2/2010 Build 3121

[Fix]: Correct flaw in creating bulk mailing labels for selected tournaments

[Modified]: Expanded payback calculator to accept a payback pool greater than $100,000

 

Version 6.1

5/3/2010 Build 3080

[Feature]: Merged in documentation for the zip archive backup and restore program

[Fix]: Bulk email was not picking up the saved configuration in Vista and Windows 7.

 

Version 6.1

3/30/2010 Build 3055

[Fix]: The "Check for Updates" option to check the web site for new versions is now functioning.

 

Version 6.1

3/29/2010 Build 3046 (not public)

[Fix]: Tournament payments were not being formatted correctly.

[Fix]: "Holds office" on membership list now properly refreshes its data

[Fix]: Tournament CSV/HTML export program "Invalid Record Declaration" error has been corrected.

 

3/26/2010 Build 3018

[Feature]: added new registration report for team tournaments that has their home towns. Also added other fields that may be added to this and other team reports that include the team members address and home phone.

[Fix]: Corrected team boat number assignments that add extra zeros to the end of the number if manually entered.

[Fix]: Corrected the team registration for tabbing order

[Modified]: Team bigfish weight will now show as zero before weights are entered

[Fix]: Corrected the "transaction framing error" that would be displayed after the leader board standing's display was updated.

 

Version 6.1 Build 3011

3/22/2010

[Fix]: Regression on tournament registration process to remove batch entry.  This is due to failure to create multiple day tournament weigh-in records correctly.  The process will be corrected and re-implemented in another build.

 

Version 6.1

3/20/2010 Build 3000

[Feature]: Added the capability to display the big fish leaders on the PTS Leader Board

[Feature]: Added option to cancel a tournament and leave it on the tournament schedule. This can be used in lieu of deleting the tournament

[Fix]: No longer be able to create an event that has the same date and location of an existing event. This became a problem when organizations would have pre-tournament meetings on the same day as the tournament. The recommendation is to modify the name of the event.

[Fix]: Changing the scale configuration now immediately takes effect. Before, the user had to shut down the Preferences and then re-open it to test the scale settings.

[Fix]: Corrected the tournament exports to CSV and HTML that is not created from the reporting process. Places and weights were not properly being exported though they are shown correctly in the audit list.

[Modified]: TSBackup, the new zip backup program has been modified to retain previously used settings and restore them the next time the program runs either a backup or a restore.

[Modified]: Updated documentation

 

3/5/2010 Build 2798

[Modified]: Corrected the conversion program's input directory for a detected previous version

 

2/22/2010 Build 2797

[Modified]: Extended the new tie logic to skip or not skip the next place after a tie to the year-to-date reports

 

2/20/2010 Build 2765

[Feature]: Team and Individual/Pro-am weigh-in windows now show the accumulated tournament total at the top of the window

[Feature]: Accumulated Tournament Weight and weight behind leader is updated immediately after weight is entered into the fish weight box.

[Fix]: Adding tournaments to a new division may not show up in the tournament list

[Fix]: Weight behind leader would not properly show the first time into a weigh-in window

 

2/10/2010 Build 2655

[Modified]: The location select filed while building a tournament now has a "quick-fill" feature that will fill the field with previous locations based on the letters keyed into the field.

[Modified]: The payout calculator now allows for payouts entered manually by entering a total tournament payout value, place being paid, amount or percentage to be paid for that place. Place entries may be added by using the right-mouse button to insert, edit or remove a payout amount.

 

2/6/2010 Build 2612

[Fix]: A couple data files were not being created properly when moved to or initially created in the Windows 7 or Vista directory structure

 

1/23/2010 Build 2606

[Fix]: Corrected configuration file maintenance affected by security in Vista and Windows 7.

[Fix]: Significant changes to TSBackup to work better with Windows 7, include data file paths and deploy a pre-configured backup set

 

1/18/2010 Build 2561

[Fix]: corrected small issue on assigning the same weight to anglers in boat when non-boater is weighed first

[Fix]: modified backup and program update processes to run in Windows 7

 

1/15/2010: Build 2553

[Feature]: Added default configuration in the Preferences to set the Bigfish option to YES

[Feature]: Added the option to have shared boat weight in Individual or Draw events not only Pro-Am.

 

1/8/2010: Initial release of version 6 on Build 2502

[Feature]: New backup-restore procedures. A basic file copy has been added to copy data from the application directory to another drive and/or directory. Also added is a new full featured backup program, TS Backup, that will create zip archives.

 

[Feature]: Various list window now allow for the user to customize what columns to view and in what order. These new configurations may be optionally named and saved as a default view or selection at a later date.

 

[Feature]: Tournaments: Tie breakers now include option to have places (and points if applicable) continue to the next number instead of skipping a place when there is a tie

 

[Feature]: PTS Leader Board is now an optional feature for all tournaments

 

[Feature]: Team member substitution

 

[Feature]: Added feature to combine divisions together for YTD report

 

[Feature]: IND & PRO-AM: Ability to add three or more individual anglers to a boat

 

[Feature]: Teams: Ability to put three anglers on a team

 

[Feature]: If using a point system, added the ability to specify total weight as a year-to-date tie breaker.

 

[Feature]: New taskbar user interface. Toolbar has been removed. Main menu has been reduced to do utility functions.

 

[Feature]: Added bonus points option for a limit oif fish. The default number of fish in a limit is set up in the Preferences for the division and can be changed for any tournament.

 

[Feature]: Membership bulk emailing with or without attchaments.

 

[Feature]: Add option to print membership from the Query Wizard

 

[Feature]: Team/Individual/Pro-am: Added new weighslip that has, in the case of multiple day tournaments, each day's weight and the tournament total weight.

 

[Feature]: Added Next Day Partner and Next Day Boat# option to Individual and Pro-Am weighslips. User must still add these to their slip.

 

[Feature]: Added Tournament Accumulated Weight option for use in all weighslips. User must still add this option to their slip.

 

[Improvement]: Due to the security in Windows 7 and to improvement data retrieval in Vista, changed the directory where the data was being maintained.

 

[Improvement]: Ability to change team members on a team after they have been registered.`

 

[Improvement]: Added New in this Version to the help menu

 

[Improvement]: The payback calculator has been improved to allow the user to set their own percentages or actual values for each place overriding the calculated values.

 

[Improvement]: Brought back the tournament export to HTML and CSV processes. These were removed in version 5 since the new Report Designer allowed for multiple types of output. But due to popular requests, it is back and accessible from the tournament results window.

 

[Fix]: IND & PRO-AM: Corrected point calculation when guests place higher than active member.

 

[Fix]: Team accumulated weight is kept in sync over multi-day tournaments

 

[Fix]: Corrected the white highlight bar on lists that would hide the line when the themes are turned on.

 

[Fix]: Corrected individual registration where the boat/non -boat would not hold a change on an insert

 

[Fix]: Fixed accumulated weights not totalling for the AMs

 

[Fix]: Changes to tournament date and location properly propagates through registrations

 

[Fix]: Corrected the point system option for Points + Fish Points which was not properly saving the settings.

 

[Fix]: Individual and Pro-am accumulated weight are kept in sync over multi-day tournaments

 

[Fix]: IND & PRO-AM: Removed guest records that would appear on the top of tournament reports.

 

[Fix]: Corrected Team mailing label export by tournament

 

[Fix]: Fixed tournament participant mailing label procedure. Tournaments would be selected but participants would not print.

 

[Fix]: When an angler is disqualified due to being late to the weigh-in, the system did not clear out the weights previously entered. This has been changed to prompt the user to optionally disqualify the angler. All DQs now properly sort at the bottom of the tournament report.

 

[Fix]: Corrected error of a ghost team appearing after being deleted during multi-day weigh-in.

 

[Change]: Added a method to add Zip+4 by keying all numbers and the system will properly format it as XXXXX-XXXX. The Zipcode entry can still be done by manually adding the hyphen.

 

[Change]: Entry of tournament registrations are now in batch mode. This means that it stays in the add mode until you tell it to close.

 

[Change]: The user can now setup a weighslip printer without having the Pro Scale Option. The weighslip printer setup is now on its own Preferences tab where the scale setup would be.

 

[Change]: At program start the tournament schedule will be displayed

 

[Change]: Client Access Licenses added to system. The default installation allows for one user to access the data at a time. The user must purchase additional access licenses to allow for multiple concurrent users in the system.