[NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade

Atwood, Mark atwoodm at paragon-inc.com
Wed Jan 6 09:45:03 AKST 2010 

Careful guys... he's probably setting us up.  He probably knows a short cut, having seen that path before there was dirt...

Mark Atwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:17 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade

Any participants in this discussion who comment negatively on RVP's  
ancientness and show up at the 2010 Nats will be challenged to a foot  
race from the Farm House porch to the Site 4 scoring trailer and back.

RVP

On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Stuart Chale wrote:

> Ed I was trying to make sense of your humor.  Couldn't figure it  
> out.  Thought it might have been a response about RVP?
> Stuart
>
> Ed Alt wrote:
>>
>>
>> Argh - replied to the wrong message  - sorry!
>>
>> From: Ed Alt
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:17 PM
>> To: 'General pattern discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade
>>
>> Something that old is filled with dried up capacitors in the power  
>> supply.  When they dry up, nothing is likely to work
>>
>> From: Gene Maurice
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:57 AM
>> To: 'General pattern discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade
>>
>> John,
>>
>>
>>
>> 401 thru 409 are just identifiers that are used as the key to the  
>> class / schedule data, it just happen to be the AMA class /  
>> schedule numbers. Go figure. You can make those identifiers  
>> anything you want, at Contest Setup it asks you to "Name" the  
>> classes. You can also assign any schedule to any class in your  
>> contest. The way the system works today is that by default it  
>> assigns the AMA / FAI schedules in effect as of the date of the  
>> contest.
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently the key to the schedules is the ID  mentioned above and  
>> the schedule effective date. You can create a new schedule without  
>> deleting the AMA schedule by simply assigning a different  
>> effective date and then change the schedule assigned to the class  
>> in Contest Setup.  Part of the upgrade will be to add and  
>> Organization identifier, ie. AMA, SPA, GBRCAA, MAAC, etc.. in  
>> addition then it can default to the schedule in effect for that  
>> organization but still allow you to select and assign any schedule.
>>
>>
>>
>> Every release of PACSS has included a file conversion program that  
>> converts the existing user data to whatever that new file format  
>> is. It is my intent to do that this time also. I will do  
>> everything I can to preserve any custom data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gene Maurice
>>
>> gene.maurice at sgmservice.com
>>
>> Dallas, GA
>>
>> AMA 3408
>>
>> NSRCA 877
>>
>> PACSS.sgmservice.com
>>
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>>
>> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca- 
>> discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of John Gayer
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:45 AM
>> To: General pattern discussion
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade
>>
>>
>>
>> Gene,
>> The Schedule Maintenance appears to allow only schedules between  
>> 401 and 409. Doesn't this mean you need to replace the current AMA/ 
>> FAI schedules in order to set up for SPA or a foreign county.  
>> Wouldn't you lose your modified schedules with a PACSS update?
>>
>> I think what Phil is suggesting is an external text file that can  
>> be used to input the schedules  for any contest, foreign or  
>> domestic. If you provide the layout, there are plenty of folks  
>> around the world that would keep their version up to date and send  
>> you the file for inclusion in updates.
>>
>> Here's the url for the current British patterns:   http:// 
>> www.gbrcaa.org/schedules.htm
>>
>> John
>>
>> Gene Maurice wrote:
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>>
>>
>> You CAN add / maintain your own schedules.  "System Maintenance"  
>> tab, "Schedules" button.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gene Maurice
>>
>> gene.maurice at sgmservice.com
>>
>> Dallas, GA
>>
>> AMA 3408
>>
>> NSRCA 877
>>
>> PACSS.sgmservice.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca- 
>> discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Phil Spelt
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:32 AM
>> To: General pattern discussion
>> Cc: Bruce Underwood; Ed Hartley
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] PACSS Upgrade
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy New Year, Gene!!!
>>
>> The SPA schedule will remain the same for 2010.  We will probably  
>> change it for 2011-2012.  If we do, I'll send the new patterns to  
>> you.  How 'bout just making an app to let us update the schedules  
>> ourselves.  Would that be too much work for you, or would it  
>> reduce your work every couple of years?
>>
>> We sure do appreciate the work you do on PACSS!!!  I believe it is  
>> THE scoring program for SPA, at least here in the Southeast...
>>
>> At 08:04 AM 1/5/2010, you wrote:
>>
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>> All PACSS Users,
>>
>> I am in the process of making a number modifications to PACSS. One  
>> of the changes is to make the use of "foreign", other than AMA /  
>> FAI, schedules easier to use. In order to do this I need to know  
>> what are the Organizations and associated schedules that are being  
>> used today. I have the SPA and Canadian schedules from last year  
>> but don't know if they are changing in 2010 so updated schedules  
>> from those two organizations would be helpful.
>>
>> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
>>
>>
>> Gene Maurice
>> gene.maurice at sgmservice.com
>> Dallas, GA
>> AMA 3408
>> NSRCA 877
>> PACSS.sgmservice.com
>>
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>>
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