Bib Entry during multi race

[Christopher Regan]

I feel like i'm missing something super obvious but it's caused problems enough I'm gonna try to figure it out.

Tonight races
10k - 6:30ish
5k - 6:45ish

I miss a read for a runner as they come through the finish and hit spacebar to get a time recorded.

The "time" that gets recorded in the Results section matches, what I believe is, whichever race is selected in the "Public Display" tab "Races to display", I could be wrong on this.

Anyway, let's say it was a 5k time that got recorded in the Results section. I then edit that time and enter the bib # of the runner. In this case it turns out they were in the 10k. They get assigned the 5k time which is wrong and I now have to go in and figure out the real time. I thought I've asked this before and people said it would automatically change the time but it definitely does not.

I'm assuming the proper fix is to type the bib number in under Manual Timing but that doesn't always work because i'm not assuming it's going to miss a read. I want the time to be recorded as soon as i notice the runner didn't get read.

Someone please tell me this is the wrong way of doing this and there's a correct way.

Thank You

Christopher

[Chris Roney]

I have had this same scenarios happen a few times and would like to know the same thing. I thought that manually updating the Start Time in the participant screen would have an effect but it does not.

[Frank H.]

Ok if I understand what you are describing, the simple solution is to capture the time with the spacebar, double click on the result time to edit it however is needed and enter the correct bib number then save.  Here is where I am confused and won't be able to test this until later, when you do this, it should automatically assign that time to the correct race because the participant(bib#) is assigned to the event and the software shouldn't be automatically switching events.  Regardless, lets say it doesn't put them in the correct event.  right click on the participant in the athletes tab and switch them to the correct event.  If the start times are different, you will get a pop up asking if you want to correct the time.  Click ok and the participant will be in the correct event with the correct start time and a finish time corresponding to the timestamp you captured with the space bar.

Or did I misunderstand the question?

I can't verify this right now but I believe the "clock time" that gets captured is whatever event is the top clock, nothing to do with the public display but I may be mistaken.  I thought you use to be able to select events after you had started them, you could actually select which race you wanted to capture times for, I don't know what happened to check boxes on the clocks after you start them. 

If it is found that capturing a time and adding a bib number to it can in fact switch someones event or add them to a differnt event, that is something brian might want to look into.

[Christopher Regan]

So the problem is that is assigns them the wrong time but it doesn't change the event they are in. So in my case they were getting 5k times and thus gettng set as the overall winner of the 10k. If the spacebar time was shown but in the background was just a actual time of day then I would think when you assigned the bib it would autocorrect to the proper race time but it definitely isn't doing that.

 It will update their start time if using gun time with the question box. In my case they had a chip start so that was fine.