Quick actions menu

The quick actions menu is available in each event's configuration sections. It lets you set up a race faster and more conveniently: generate items in bulk, import them from another race or move them from one event to another.

1. How to open the quick actions menu

The menu is in the header of these sections of each event's configuration:

• Timing points.
• Splits.
• Waves.
• Categories.
• Attributes.
• Types of team.
• Awards.

To open it, click the three-dot icon in the section header. A bar of icons is shown; hover over each one to see its name.

These are the actions you can perform with this menu:

• Create (generate in bulk).
• Import.
• Clear.
• Cut.
• Copy.
• Paste.

Below is what you can use each of them for.

2. Create in bulk

The Create action lets you create items in bulk in each section. It opens a wizard where you enter the details of the items to generate.

Timing points

In the Timing points section, the wizard automatically creates the start and finish points (if they already exist, they are not duplicated), so you only need to modify, remove or add the missing points.

Enter:

1. Number of points to generate: the total number of points to add, including start and finish if they do not exist yet.
2. The name prefix: if you enter “Split”, the intermediate points are named “Split 1”, “Split 2” and so on. If you leave it empty, they are named after their distance (“5K”, “10K”…).
3. Distance between points: required.
4. Physical location (optional): if all the points are in the same place (for example, a lap circuit), choose or create it. You can then also set the minimum lap time.

When creating timing points in bulk, minimum and maximum times are not created; edit them yourself (except the minimum lap time, if you set it).

Splits

In the Splits section, the action creates one split from the start to each timing point of the event, after asking for confirmation. It only appears when the event has at least two timing points, one of them a start point.

Splits are named “‹start› - ‹point›” (for example, “Start - Split 3”). Split names can be edited.

Waves

In the Waves section, enter:

1. Number of waves to generate: indicate the number.
2. The name prefix: you can enter “Wave” and the names will be created as “Wave 1”, “Wave 2” and so on.
3. Time interval between waves, in minutes.
4. Date and time of the first wave (by default, the event start time): the interval between waves is added from it.

The quick actions menu is very useful for waves when you have many of them in the same event.

Categories

In the Categories section, you can create as many categories as you need by age criteria. Take into account the age range you are going to set to change categories, the minimum and maximum age, and whether you are going to create male, female or mixed categories.

By default, the maximum age is 70 and male and female are selected.

Due to the age ranges, you may not be able to create all categories at the same time. You can first create categories in bulk using the age ranges and then create the others.

For example, if you have categories in 5-year ranges from age 35 onwards, start with these and create them in bulk for both men and women. Then create the missing categories one by one.

Category names can be edited, because the ones created automatically are probably not the ones you expect.

Trophies

In the Awards section, you can create trophies with different criteria and for the splits you have already created for the event. As a minimum, they are usually created by category for the complete split of the race: from start to finish.

The wizard opens from the menu of each group's Award List. Enter:

1. Number of winners per trophy (3 by default).
2. Type of trophy: by gender, category, attribute or team type. Copernico creates one trophy for each gender, category, attribute option or team type of the event.
3. Mode: official time or net time (official by default).
4. Applicable split: only shown if the event has splits; in the drop-down list, choose one of the existing ones.

In the example, trophies are created for the first three finishers by gender and for the first three finishers in each category.

3. Import

The Import action lets you import data from another race and event in your database. Depending on the section you are configuring, it imports different data. This quick action is very useful to create new events or new editions of races, because their configuration is usually the same.

The race list opens with a search box: expand the race and choose the event to copy the section from. When importing categories, their dates are recalculated from the event date.

4. Clear

The Clear action deletes all the items of the section you are configuring. Sometimes it is quicker to clear everything and start over than to change all the items one by one.

5. Cut, copy and paste

The cut, copy and paste quick actions work from one event to another within the same race. For example, you can cut, copy and paste the trophy settings from the 10K event to the 5K event. However, they do not let you copy or cut from one race to another; use the Import action for that.

Cut

The Cut action removes the configuration of a section so you can use it in another event.

Copy

The Copy action copies the configuration of a section to replicate it in another event.

Paste

The Paste action replicates in a section the configuration you have previously cut or copied. The pasted content replaces the section's current content.