Data creation flow

For details on data creation, see the Manual together with Sample Data.

1.About data

There are three types of original data.

  • Timetable
  • Judge
  • Player

2.Create judge data

First, create the judge data.

  • Column A (Group): Enter the group using only 1 letter. This data islinked to the judge in the timetable.
  • Column B (Number): Enter the judge number.
  • Column C (Judge): Enter the name of the judge. It must match the judge number.
  • Column D (Terminal): Enter terminals in sequential order. Upper limit is 93. It is automatically associated with the login account in the management screen “Judge”.
  • Column E (Mail): Enter the email address that corresponds to the judges when they use their own terminals. This is for a Password Less Login to the judges’ terminal. We will send you a magic link to login to that address.

3.Create timetable data

Next, create a timetable.

  • Column A (Competition Number): Enternumbers in sequential order. No.1 must be the first competition. The intermediate breaks and awards ceremony can also be included.
  • Column B (Time): Enter the starting time.
  • Column C (Judge): Enter the group and name of the judges. This data islinked to the judge in the management screen. In addition, the management screentimetables will only show the rows existthis data.
  • Column D (Section): Enter the competition name. Since this name is used for identification, please make sureit is written with identical character strings for each round.
  • Column E (Type): Enter whether the competition isamateur or professional using only 1 letter. This isused for identification when displaying the allresultand is linked to the type of competitionin the management screen. You can register types of competitionsother than the default ones from the management screen.
  • Column F (Round): Enter the round.
  • Column G (Entry): Enter the number of competitors.
  • Column H (H): Enter the heat number.
  • Column I (UP): Enter the up number.
  • Column J (Musics): Enter the number of musics.
  • Column K (Category): Enter the order of the competitions using one letter for each category. This islinked to the categoryin the management screen. You can register categories other than the default ones from the management screen.
  • Column L (Interval): Enter the intervals.

4.Create player data

Finally, create player data for each section. In the following examples 5-11 creates player data for the “Amateur Latin” section.

  • Column A (No.):Enter the competitor number.
  • Column B (Seed):If a competitoris seeded, enter their starting timetable competition number. This islinked to the timetable. If a competitoris not seeded, leave blank.
  • Column C (Code1):If a competitor hasan association code, you can enter it. This is not required for the system. It can be used for other purposes.
  • Column D (Code2): This is not required for the system. It can be used for other purposes.
  • Column E (Name1):Enter the full name of the competitor.
  • Column F (Pronunciation1):Enter the pronunciation for Name1. This is not required for the system.
  • Column G (Name2):Enter the full name of the competitor.
  • Column H (Pronunciation2):Enter the pronunciation for Name2. This is not required for the system.
  • Column I (Place):Enterthebelongs. Prefecture names are used in the sample data, so please change accordingly.
  • Column J (Competition):Enter the competition section. This column is not read as data but used as a filter when generating data. Please paste it onto a separate sheet and create a CSV file. At that time, heading row is not necessary.

5.Press the “Competition” data filter in row J

6.Select one competition section

7.Only data for the selected competition section is displayed

8.Create a new worksheet

9.Return to 7 player sheet and select columns A through I to copy

10.Paste the data copied in 9 to the new worksheet created in 8 as “value”

11.Change the name of the new worksheet to which “Value” is pasted

12.Do 5-11 for each competition section

13.Conversion to data to be read by the scoring system

Convert the timetable, judges, and players(for each section) to CSV format using a macro in order to load them into the scoring system.

14.Open the folder containing the data and launch the csv_export_utf8.xlsm file

15.Enable Macro

16.Press the button

17.Open an Excel file containing the data

18.When the process finishes, the message “Successful” is displayed. Press OK.

19.Check if files are created in the same folder

20.Try opening any of the files in Notepad

21.Confirm comma-delimited data is ready