Comments on: Background http://www.wp-swimteam.org A WordPress plugin for swim team management Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://www.wp-swimteam.org/background/comment-page-1/#comment-694 Bruce Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:17:38 +0000 http://www.wp-swimteam.org/?page_id=141#comment-694 We aren’t trying to interface during meets. We are attempting to allow the club members to enter meets online. To simplify this we want to upload a meet events file (which we get from the meet organiser) and then download the meet entries and load these into Team manager where they are validated before being sent to the meet organiser. We will validate age and gender online but not entry times. Based on a quick look at the event and entry files they appear to be Hy-tek format fixed field length. Some of the fields are obvious but others are a complete mystery. I haven’t checked if there is a checksum. We aren’t trying to interface during meets. We are attempting to allow the club members to enter meets online. To simplify this we want to upload a meet events file (which we get from the meet organiser) and then download the meet entries and load these into Team manager where they are validated before being sent to the meet organiser. We will validate age and gender online but not entry times.

Based on a quick look at the event and entry files they appear to be Hy-tek format fixed field length. Some of the fields are obvious but others are a complete mystery. I haven’t checked if there is a checksum.

]]> By: Mike Walsh http://www.wp-swimteam.org/background/comment-page-1/#comment-693 Mike Walsh Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:58:32 +0000 http://www.wp-swimteam.org/?page_id=141#comment-693 I am more than happy to collaborate. I've been looking at the .HY3 file lately in an effort to figure it out. Some of it is SDIF and some of it is Hy-tek specific but the checksum at the end of each line in the file is the big unknown. What sort of data are you looking to import? The biggest challenge I face is getting Meet Manager to read heat and lane information as pre-setting it is a function of how we run dual swim meets for summer swim league. I am more than happy to collaborate. I’ve been looking at the .HY3 file lately in an effort to figure it out. Some of it is SDIF and some of it is Hy-tek specific but the checksum at the end of each line in the file is the big unknown. What sort of data are you looking to import? The biggest challenge I face is getting Meet Manager to read heat and lane information as pre-setting it is a function of how we run dual swim meets for summer swim league.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.wp-swimteam.org/background/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Bruce Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:16:55 +0000 http://www.wp-swimteam.org/?page_id=141#comment-692 Hi, I have also been looking at ways to import data into team manager and have run into similar frustrations as yourself. As you say it is a very closed environment Hytek has adopted. I have managed to extract and present data onto our club website through some extracts and data manipulation (you will see this in the tools -> club database menu). However importing data is a very different proposition (eg meet entries). I have opened one of the entries files which appear to have a very complex data structure which contains significantly more information than it needs to. Happy to correspond more if we can assist each other. Hi,

I have also been looking at ways to import data into team manager and have run into similar frustrations as yourself. As you say it is a very closed environment Hytek has adopted. I have managed to extract and present data onto our club website through some extracts and data manipulation (you will see this in the tools -> club database menu). However importing data is a very different proposition (eg meet entries). I have opened one of the entries files which appear to have a very complex data structure which contains significantly more information than it needs to.

Happy to correspond more if we can assist each other.

]]> By: Chuck http://www.wp-swimteam.org/background/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Chuck Tue, 18 May 2010 05:17:08 +0000 http://www.wp-swimteam.org/?page_id=141#comment-572 There are TONS of people that seem to share this frustration with Hy-Tek on the data entry side. I think the merger with Active has just made it worse. They want to be the "everything" for all team sports. As we know, those "software silos" only last so long in this day and age before somebody without any legacy comes in and uses new more effecient tools and whips butt and starts a ground swell in the trenches. All I want to do is get a flipping registration dataset spreadsheet into Team Mgr that I collected from using formstack forms for our online summer swim team registration process. Great to share the frustration with you! There are TONS of people that seem to share this frustration with Hy-Tek on the data entry side. I think the merger with Active has just made it worse. They want to be the “everything” for all team sports. As we know, those “software silos” only last so long in this day and age before somebody without any legacy comes in and uses new more effecient tools and whips butt and starts a ground swell in the trenches.

All I want to do is get a flipping registration dataset spreadsheet into Team Mgr that I collected from using formstack forms for our online summer swim team registration process.

Great to share the frustration with you!

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