Setting Up A Catalog
To begin the process of compiling a show report, you should start with
an empty TkScore data base. Don't try to copy and modify a previous
report; it will probably cause you trouble.
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To begin, you should enter the name of the club, the location of the
show, the date of the show, and your name and e-mail address:
Format and Number of Rings
Next, you should click one of the radiobuttons in the Format box.
These buttons will automatically fill in the labels for the shows.
The most common formats are provided as presets:
- 2-day back-to-back
- Saturday, Sunday
- 3-day back-to-back
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- 2-day split format
- Saturday/Sunday (1 show)
- 1-day double format
- AM Show, PM Show
- 2-day double format
- Saturday AM, Saturday PM, Sunday AM, Sunday PM
- 1-day, Saturday
- Saturday
- 1-day, Sunday
- Sunday
If your show doesn't fit any of the preset formats, click on Other
and fill in the labels for Show 1, Show 2, etc. You can
type in anything you want as labels, but each label must be unique.
Alternatively, you can click one of the preset formats and then modify the
labels as necessary.
Next, you need to specify how many rings there are in each show.
Longhair and Shorthair Specialty counts as one ring. Examine
the catalog carefully to see how many congresses there are.
You will need to count each congress as a separate
ring. If you have an overflow judge, that will count as an extra ring,
too (the classes will be divided up on the next form).
Save Your Work
At this point, it would be a good idea to save your data base to a file.
On the File menu, select Save. If you are saving the file
for the first time, it should pop up a Save As dialog box that will
let you specify the name of the file and where you want the file stored.
TkScore data bases should be stored as files with a .tks
extension.
We find it's convenient to use the city and year when naming the file.
TkScore will remember what folder you selected to store your data base in,
and will use that folder as the default the next time you open a file.
David Thomas (showreports@ticamembers.org)
26 February 2001