Single Platform Race Setup

We have made some changes to improve race management within the Timingsense ecosystem. This article explains what the single race repository is and what it means when you create a race.

1. What changes?

Races are created in a single location, from which they can be integrated into the different applications in our ecosystem.

We have made these changes in order to separate:

• Registrations (Sportmaniacs).
• Cloud (for the moment, shared by Sportmaniacs and Copernico).
• Timing (Copernico).
• Rankings (hosted by Sportmaniacs or your preferred platform).

2. What implications does this have?

This means that, if you search for the race in another application, you must search with the unique name it was created with; in the example, XV Cross of Valencia.

When you create a race, either in Sportmaniacs or in Copernico, you are asked for the competition name and the platforms are checked to see whether it already exists, to prevent duplicates.

For example, in Copernico you search for the competition by clicking Add competition on Races:

The search window asks for at least the first 2 characters of the name to show you the list of competitions. For each matching competition, you will see the platforms where it already exists:

When you select a competition, the race you create in Copernico is linked to it in the single repository. If the competition already has a race in Copernico, no new race is created: the existing one opens.

If the competition does not exist on any platform, you can create a new one. Copernico shows the Be careful! warning, as you should only do this in that case. See Creating a race in Copernico for the full procedure.

This way you will have a single version of the race in which you can distinguish:

• Registrations: Sportmaniacs.
• Timing & Live: Copernico.
• Results: Sportmaniacs or any other platform.

Thanks to the new single race manager and the direct connection between the cloud and Copernico, you can create races directly in Copernico if you will only be timing them. More information in Copernico cloud.

3. What is the process like?

The process described above associates races: if a race existed in Sportmaniacs, it is associated with the new one you create in Copernico.

Linking the race does not copy its data. If the competition exists in Sportmaniacs, when race creation opens Copernico asks Competition already exists — Do you want to import competition data from Sportmaniacs into Copernico? Click Yes to import its configuration. If you click No, you can import it later with the Import race from Sportmaniacs button in the button column on the right.

More details on importing a race: Creating a race in Copernico and How to import a race in Copernico from Sportmaniacs.

With the single repository, each race exists only once and is connected to every application in the ecosystem where it is used.