Enable participant data editing through local network
Juin 25 2016

New in version 8 is the ability to open a network service that makes your participant data editable from a remote station/device.

This can be a great help for example if you want to dedicate a member of your team for a participant registration follow up, while you can strictly focus on timing the current race.

How to make it work

Almost nothing to do for that: the service is opened by default when Wiclax gets launched and as soon as an event is active, the participant data can be edited remotely.

Simply find the Network button in the Registrations tab, and you'll get the address of the service in the dropdown menu. Type this address in the browser of a tablet connected to your local network and here you go.

 

 

You're getting this kind of screen, showing the name of the active event and a minimal registration form:

What can you do with the service?

The application can do the following:

  • Lookup some existing participant data: either typing a bib number or part of a name
  • Modify the data for a registered participant
  • Register a new participant, providing his/her bib number (an alert will tell if it's already allocated)
  • Register a new participant, letting Wiclax allocate him/her an available bib number. This number will be determined by the races' bib ranges if any, and will be displayed right after the validation.
  • Display the history of the registrations made on the device, for an easy go-back when necessary.

On Wiclax side, a greenmark icon appears on a participant row when he's been added remotely. The mark disappears at the next file saving. Remember that only this file saving operation makes the remote modifications definitely saved.

 

Note: to simplify, only one single service is active at a given time on your PC. So in case you're working with multiple instances of Wiclax, remember that the last one that was alone when launched owns the service. Having a doubt or wishing to switch for another event: check the Network menu. It will propose to hijack the active event in case it's not the current one.