MEET MANAGER 6.0 for Track & Field

 

Service Pack Release Notes

 

 

Procedure to Download and Install Service Packs

Start MEET MANAGER 6.0 and click on Check for Updates at the top of the main screen.        

If a Firewall is preventing the Check for Updates process from completing, you can order a Product Replacement CD from the HY-TEK Online Store. Or go to the HY-TEK Download Center, click on Update next to MEET MANAGER 6.0, and SAVE the MEET MANAGER 6.0 Service Pack update file to your hard drive (to c:\Hy-Sport for example). Then start MM 6.0 and click on File / Install Update and follow the prompts.

 


 

Urgent Critical Security Update Required:

A critical security update to your HY-TEK application is required. To better secure our customers' data, we have updated our software to meet the latest Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. Please accept the live update to install this critical security update before Aug 24th, 2018. Without this update, you will be unable to push meet results to Meet Mobile after September 4th, 2018.

 

Version 6.0Ib - December 5, 2024

Under Seeding Preferences, the previous NCAA rule 5-11-3a has been updated to NCAA rule 7-9-3c and 7-9-3d.

Previously, on the Run menu, when scoring an event, the absence of a T & F disability rating resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, exporting a club throw event to a semi-colon delimited file resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

 

Version 6.0Ia - August 8, 2024

Previously, reading times for a 2k event resulted in a ‘Type mismatch’ error message. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, scoring an event from the run menu resulted in incorrect 'Wind H#' text being displayed in the report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, incorrect labels resulted in incorrect event scoring in age grading events. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, importing a txt file into File > Import > Semi-Colon Delimited Rosters/Entries resulted in an “Error while importing semi-colon delimited file: Subscript out of range” error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, exporting the Advancers report resulted in a ‘Run-time error “94” Invalid use of Null’ error message. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, reopening the Athlete Rosters - Age Group Statistics report resulted in incorrect data in the report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Hh - April 16, 2024

Improved age grading accuracy by updating calculations to match the latest WMA Age Grading Tables, addressing discrepancies with Masters Rankings.

Improved scoring accuracy by updating scoring tables based on latest RAZA worksheet, resolving discrepancies with Parapanam games results.

Resolved Club Throw event setup issue in TFMM, ensuring correct measurement of distance and providing the option for 'field series' as intended.

Resolved an issue causing 'Runtime Error 13 Data Mismatch' when updating 'Web' information and restarting the program.

Fixed issue with web real-time results not showing all athletes in events with start line alleys, ensuring accurate representation.

 

Version 6.0Hg - September 14, 2023

Previously, in the CC/RR module, for a mixed gender cross-country race, results and scores failed to be separated by gender. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Hf - August 23, 2023

Fixed a bug in the Exceptions Report.

 

Version 6.0He - May 30, 2023

Previously, File > Export > Semi-Colon Delimited Results incorrectly exported all results instead of only results for the selected region. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the Score Points ONLY if Athlete equals or exceeds Event Qualifying Mark feature failed to function correctly for Division by entry meets. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in the Results report, results by division incorrectly listed results for all divisions. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Hd - March 7, 2023

Previously, creating a dual-meet formatted report resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In Entry / Scoring Preferences > Age-Grading, the Use 1 year Age-Grading Tables option for Standard Events has been reactivated.

 

Version 6.0Hc - January 5, 2023

Previously, importing meet results with a division with more than 120 characters resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

You can now configure up to 40 teams for 2 or 3+ Double Dual meets.

Previously, the calculated age group % for the 5000m event W35 category was incorrect. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the scoring table for the women’s 100 meter dash combined event was misaligned by one row. This issue has been resolved in this release.

WMA Age Grading Tables have been updated to the latest version.

 

Version 6.0Hb - September 27, 2022

Since WMA's Championships were canceled and the 2022 proposed factors were not adopted by WMA, the WMA Age Grading tables have been reverted to the previous version.

 

Version 6.0Ha - August 10, 2022

When creating a Reports > Finish Line Sheets report, you can now select to print in a single-line spacing format or double-line spacing format by checking the Double Space checkbox.

The Age Grading Table has been updated to the latest version.

Previously, combined team scores failed to be displayed for mixed events. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, on the Upload Default Results Pages, uploading resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, uploading results HTML files to the results web page resulted in a "0 result html files uploaded" error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Gh - March 30, 2022

Previously, entering a meet name longer than 50 characters resulted in an error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Fixed some printing issues.

Previously, scoring an event for a para meet failed to display points. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, a "Runtime-error 13 Type mismatch" error occurred with the Fixed Digit Scoreboard. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Gg - December 16, 2021

Previously, using the Reports > a report > upper printer icon function crashed Meet Manager. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Gf - November 11, 2021

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Field Series Recording Performances Article15 rule change has been implemented.

If the user checks “DNF”, but the “minimum runner” and “Number of runners that score” are not set to 5, then a warning message is displayed.

A page break issue in the Finish Line Sheets report has been resolved.

Previously, in the score report, the prior round results were incorrectly displayed at the top of the report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ge - September 30, 2021

Previously, opening or creating a database failed with a Can’t create database error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Gd - September 24, 2021

Previously, entering data in the Events > Records > Mark column resulted in an error 3163 or a “Please enter a mark first” error message. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, a disqualified athlete was incorrectly included in exported advancers. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, if the Set-up > Seeding Preferences > Randomization Rules > Round 1 of Multiple Rounds checkbox was checked and NCAA Rules 5-11-3a or 5-11-3b checkboxes were checked, then the lane assignments in the prelims failed to be randomized. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, unchecking the Reports > Finish Line Sheets > Entry Marks checkbox resulted in incorrect behavior of the One Event Per Page checkbox. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In the Entry / Scoring Preferences > CC / RR Scoring > Cross Country Scoring tab, coaches can now select to Mark teams that are not qualified for scoring as DNF.

 

Version 6.0Gc - August 12, 2021

The print format of the A4 – AUS (3x11) label option has been adjusted to fit 33 labels on an A4 page.

Critical security updates.

In Reports > Finish Line Sheets, you can display multiple heats on one page by selecting the 1 Event Per Page option.

 

Version 6.0Gb - March 22, 2021

Previously, re-sizing the Athletes window and then changing from Eligible Only to Entries Only incorrectly removed the athlete from their first event in the list. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In college, indoors, time-based advancement, prelim-semi-final events, selecting to apply rule 5-11-3a in the prelim or semi rounds also applies rule 5-11-3a to the seeding, and selecting to apply rule 5-11-3b in the final round also applies rule 5-11-3b to the seeding.

In Report > Meet Results > Save/Memorize, users are now reminded that Only the report settings will be memorized but not the selected events.

On the Sessions window > Start time column, pressing the Enter key failed to advance the cursor down to the next time in the column. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in a horizontal jump event where an athlete jumped a best mark twice which was also a meet record, a legal wind for the last jump was incorrectly recorded as an illegal wind. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In the session list, the Entry Limit column has been moved to the right of the Session # column.

Previously, importing athlete roster/entries from a tfx file with divisions failed to import the divisions. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the Set-up > CC/RR Button Finish Interface > X (close) icon failed to close the dialog. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, adding an athlete entry for an event without adding a qualifying mark and then adding an entry for another event resulted in a True DBGrid 8 error followed by a Run-time error '6149'. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Club throw (CLU) is now available as a new field event event type.

Meet Manager can now import and export SDMX records.

 

Version 6.0Ga - May 7, 2020

Previously, in the CC/RR module, for cross-country events that had age groups, if the first age group had no team points, then Meet Manager would not assign team points to the second age group even if the second age group had team points. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, when generating updated lists for all sessions by clicking Interfaces > Field Event Scoring - Field Lynx File Sharing Mode > Update Start Lists, incorrect event details were included in the generated .evt file. This issue has been resolved in this release.

The following wording changes have been implemented in this release:

oIn general, the term "disabled" has been replaced by "impaired".

oIn meet setup, the term "Disabled" has been replaced by "Para Athletics".

oIn divisions, the term "Create Disability sport classification Divisions" has been replaced by "Create Para sport classification Divisions".

oFor athletes, the term "Disability (T, F)" has been replaced by "Para Classes (T, F)".

A complete list of correct country codes has been updated in this release.

Previously, if the Event Edit window > Entries or Results were set to English, then a run-time error "6" would occur in Field series. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, when updating records by clicking Events > Records > Update, duplicate record tags were added. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, certain formats of English marks were not permitted. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fh - March 4, 2020

Previously, when updating event records under the Meet Manager 6.0Fg > Events > Records menu, error occurred if a result included dash. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in Meet Manager 6.0Fg, users were unable to enter field events in English marks. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Delivery of site license by CD has been replaced by Web delivery in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fg - February 26, 2020

Previously, the Alberta Youth points were incorrectly calculated for the 800-meter run. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, scoring calculation for Discus Events was incorrect in the Alberta Youth Tables. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ff - January 19, 2020

Previously, for the "Divisions by Team" Meet Type, no data could be generated in the results report by Heat. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the 1040 Boys 14-16 Long Jump scoring calculation was incorrect in the Alberta Youth Tables. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fe - December 12, 2019

Now, in the CC/RR results entry screen, users can enter either "DNF" or "dnf" for athletes that started a cross country meet but did not finish.

Previously, when exporting Meet Manager merge of the same meet, teams with no athletes but had a relay entry caused a mismatch in the exported results. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the 400-Meter scoring calculation was incorrect in the Alberta Youth Tables. This issue has been resolved in this release.

To comply with USATF Competition Rules 7.9 (b), now in the USATF meets, ties between two or more teams are resolved in favor of the team whose last scoring member finishes nearer to first place.

Previously, the basic roster report incorrectly included birth dates when sorting by team. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the link in the annual Contractor License renewal reminder was incorrect. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, for Meet Type "Divisions by Teams", scoring the event by heat resulted incorrect results in the Results report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fd - September 3, 2019

Previously, File > Export > Results for NCAA Cross Country > Upload Results resulted in a Please select a meet error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

For compliance with NCAA requirements, in the CC/RR results entry screen, users may now enter DNF for any athlete that started a cross country meet but did not finish. DNF result codes are also exported in File > Export > Results for NCAA Cross Country.

Previously, after using the auto-break-tie feature, the J (judge's decision) flag failed appear in the results report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Various IPC XML file import and export issues have been resolved in this release.

Previously, exporting results with paralympic athletes to a Flat html report resulted in a Subscript out of range error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, creating Omega Star start list files generated an unnecessary lynx.sch file. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, heats failed to be seeded in accordance with NCAA Rule 5-11-3a. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fc - April 15, 2019

Previously, results data sent to a Daktronics scoreboard failed to include the End-of-Transmission byte. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Fb - March 14, 2019

Previously, NCAA Rule 5-11-3b seeding seeded athletes in the correct heats, but not in lanes corresponding to the lane preferences for seeding. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, IPC imports truncated division IDs. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, NCAA Rule 5-11-3a regulations for forming heats was incorrectly applied. This issue has been resolved in this release.

IPC Points can now be applied to disabled athletes.

Previously, foreign athletes were incorrectly listed first (instead of last) in the results and not listed in the results report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Eh - February 20, 2019

Previously, NCAA Rule 5-11-3b seeding seeded athletes in the correct heats, but with lanes not corresponding to the lane preferences for seeding. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, importing disabled athletes into an event from a semicolon delimited file only imported the field classification and failed to import the track classification. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in the Results report, for athletes without a score, the Event Notes were incorrectly displayed in the Scores column. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, publishing meet general information resulted in an "ACTIVE Works error from sync of Team Rosters" error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, meet programs incorrectly listed the number of entries after the event name. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, for field event relays, in the Reports > Results > Create report > Results report, the Heat# header failed to be displayed. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Eg - November 29, 2018

Previously, clicking the Run > Awards button crashed the program. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, exporting events for TFTM by clicking File > Export > Meet Events for Team Manager > OK resulted in a "DynaZIP ZIP Error: Nothing to do!" error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ef - November 15, 2018

Previously, adding a new athlete resulted in an Unknown Error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ee - November 5, 2018

Previously, cross country ties were incorrectly broken. This issue has been resolved in this release.

The obsolete Set-up > Seeding Preferences > Apply NCAA rule 10-5a has been removed.

Previously, Import > Records failed to import any records from a CSV file due to a mismatched/missing division code column. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Meet Manager can now import and export IPC Sport Data Management System XML (SDMX) files.

 

Version 6.0Ed - October 19, 2018

Previously, Age-Grading columns were blank for some athletes. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, tie breaking of team scores failed to correctly rank teams by the number of higher-placed finishers in each team. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Disability T/F categories have been extended from 1-60 to 1-80.

 

Version 6.0Ec - August 20, 2018

Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard critical security update.

 

Version 6.0Eb - July 5, 2018

Previously, in the Reports > Meet Summary report, for events with only one round, scratched participants failed to be displayed as scratched. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In the Help menu, users may now open and view the Your Privacy Rights and Terms of Use documents.

 

Version 6.0Ea - April 11, 2018

When Set-up > Athlete / Relay Preferences > Show Athlete Status was checked, the names of non-disabled athletes in the results were incorrectly appended with the T00 disability code. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Dj - April 3, 2018

Youth USATF age divisions for 2018 meets have been adjusted.

Added support for IPC Disability Points system.

Added support for Set-up > Meet Set-up > Meet Class > Disabled meets.

Updated the user guide to to include the Division Code column for the Import Records from CSV file function.

Coaches can now separately set the following entry limits at the session level: Max Entries Including Relays, Max Individual Entries and Max Relay Entries.

Coaches can now select to Include session entry limits in an exported EV1 file.

 

Version 6.0Di - December 13, 2017

Hytek product information is now hosted on the new hytek.active.com website. Hytek products now download product updates from a new SFTP site for enhanced security.

 

Version 6.0Dh - December 5, 2017

Coaches can now select Set-up > Seeding Preferences > Seeding Rules > Apply NCAA rule 5-11-3a to apply NCAA rule 5-11-3a seeding to meets where the current meet in indoors, the meet class is College, the event is prelim-final and advancement based on time, and the current event is prelim round.

Previously, in Seeding > EVENT LIST, 2 x 50 meter relays were incorrectly displayed as 2 x 50 mile relays. This issue has been resolved in this release.

In Help > Online Help Center, the File Menu > Import Menu > Import Entries from a Semi-Colon Delimited File article now indicates that for athletes with both F and T disability codes, the two codes should be separated by a space character.

Previously, field event results could not be entered in English measurements with a decimal. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Dg - September 18, 2017

Previously, if the Run > CC/RR > Include splits > Score > List & Team Score > Include splits check-box was checked, then only women's results were exported. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, the standard designator for the fastest standard achieved was not being displayed in the results. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Df - August 29, 2017

Previously, on the Run screen, selecting a Cross Country event and pressing F10 to upload scores resulted in a file with mixed gender team scores. In this release, male and female Cross Country scores are separately listed.

 

Version 6.0De - August 15, 2017

Entry of partial-inch javelin, discus and hammer throw results are now automatically rounded down to the lesser whole inch.

In the single column courier results report, the Alternate header has been removed.

Previously, on the Run screen, selecting a relay event whose event number ends in a letter and then clicking the List button resulted in an Unknown Error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, using the File > Export > Generic Data in MS Access export feature resulted in a field is too small error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in Reports > Scores > Report Gender Choices, selecting a specific gender still resulted in all gender's and combined scores being displayed, and combined scores were displayed under the women's scores instead of in a combined section. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, on the Preview / Adjust page, double-clicking an athlete under Eligible Athletes failed to add the athlete to the event. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, using File > Duplicate to duplicate a past meet to a future date and then using the File > Export > Meet Events for Team Manager on the new meet resulted in a "Meet start date has passed" error message. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, generating relay reports resulted in errors 3075 and 91 and a blank report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, when importing relay entries from a CSV file, relay teams with 5-digit team abbreviations incorrectly created new teams using only the first four digits of the team abbreviations. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Dd - May 12, 2017

Previously, ResulTV scoreboards (using the Daktronics Fixed Digit option) paged through all of the results only once, before displaying a blank page. This issue has been resolved in this release.

NCAA meets can now select to follow NCAA rule 5-11.3b to seed final races, where 8 athletes must be accommodated on a track with fewer than 8 lanes by being seeded in two heats, where heat 1 has athletes 3-4-6-8 and heat 2 has athletes 1-2-5-7.

 

Version 6.0Dc - April 20, 2017

Users of Fair-Play scoreboards can now set the number of athletes per page at: Run > Interfaces > Scoreboard - Fair-Play/TransLux Full Matrix > Customize > Maximum Number of Athletes per Page.

 

Version 6.0Da - April 7, 2017

Results for athletes with disability codes are now scored and ranked in a separate group together with all other athletes with the same disability code.

Previously, the Run > Preferences > Web Real-Time > Results By Heat/Flight and Compiled option was ignored by the Run > Web > Log-in > Upload Results for Completed Rounds button. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Interfacing to Fair-Play (previously known as Fairtron) scoreboards is now supported.

Previously, selecting Reports > Events > Sort > Event # failed to sort the Event List, Detailed Event List and Event Comments reports by event #. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ci - March 15, 2017

Previously, in Seeding > Combine, combining entries for two events (after correcting mismatched age ranges) resulted in an Unknown Error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in Real time Results to the web, after uploading the last completed heat, the Last Heat Result failed to display times for the athletes. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Cg - March 8, 2017

Previously, team scores in files sent by Web Realtime Results to C:\Realtime were out of order. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, users were blocked from listing or scoring an event. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Cf - March 6, 2017

Previously, selecting Labels > Award Labels > Label Selection > Laser > 2 x 10 and then selecting one or more events and creating the labels resulted in an error message. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ce - February 16, 2017

Previously, the Reports > Results report failed to list exhibition, DQ or No Show entries. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Cd - February 10, 2017

Previously, using F12 to upload results to Real Time Results to the web did not upload competitor numbers. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, in Reports > Results, selecting events with a seeded status incorrectly displays events and athletes with no results in the report. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, an error message is displayed when a computer attempts to open a database which is already opened in multi-user mode by another computer. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, if Teams > Add > Meet Class is set to USATF or IAAF and a team is added, then an error message is displayed unless an Association or the No Association option is selected. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Cc - January 23, 2017

Coaches can now use the Association field for non-USTAF meets.

In Seeding > Preview, when Entered Only is selected, the Alt (Alternate) column of tick boxes is now editable.

Previously, clicking File > Export > Semi-colon Delimited Results > OK may have resulted in an Invalid use of Null error. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Cb - January 4, 2017

Coaches can now use the Duplicate this Meet function to create a new new meet from an existing meet. Coaches are prompted to enter the new meet name, date, and location, and may delete any existing entries, seeding, scores, and teams.

Previously, when Run > Adjust : F8 > Show Eligible Athletes or Eligible Athletes + Age-ups was selected, an application error may occur. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Previously, when Set-up > Meet Set-up > Meet Type > -Divisions- > By Event and Use Division Birthdate Ranges were selected, an error message would appear if Set-up > Division / Region Names > Divisions > Youth USATF > final date was set to later than 12/29/2016. This issue has been resolved in this release.

 

Version 6.0Ca - December 20, 2016

This is the first release of the new 6.0 version of MEET MANAGER.

 

New Features

 

Run Menu

In Run > Preferences > Web Real-Time, you can now select to include Competitor Numbers in Web Real Time Results.

In Run > Adjust > Eligible Athletes, you can use the new Alt column to mark an athlete as an Alternate. Non-alternate athletes are not eligible to progress into the next round.

 

Setup Menu

In Set-up > Options, you can now batch convert field event results between Metric and English units.

Youth USATF age divisions in Set-up > Division/Region Names > Divisions have been updated to conform with the most recent USATF age divisions.

 

Import / Export

When importing entries from a semi-colon delimited file, you can now mark an athlete as an alternate entry to an event.

Team scores are now included when exporting results to semi-colon delimited results files.

Previously, after importing a roster file, head coaches failed to be listed on the team edit screen, and then would then be blanked on the team browser. This issue has been fixed in this release.

You can now import a semi-colon delimited file to only update seed times without adding new athletes or entries.

 

Athlete Menu

In Athletes > Add or Edit Athletes, you can now add a disability classification for disabled athletes.

 

Teams/Schools Menu

In the Teams or Schools pages, you can now record the Team or School’s association in the Association field.

 

Records

You can now import Records from a manually-created, CSV-formatted Records file.

 

Reports

In Report > Team Assignments Report (CC), you can now generate a Cross Country Team Assignments report.

The Meet Check-in report now displays full team names, instead of team abbreviations.

You can now view the dates on which entries or scratches were entered by running the Entry/Scratch Date report in Reports > Entry Lists Report.

You can now select to display full team names or team abbreviations in single-column-formatted Meet Program and Meet Result reports.

If an athlete’s contact information has a blank city, then you can now select to display the team’s city in front of the team name in reports.

You can now include sub-events when printing reports by ticking the Include sub-events checkbox.