It was recently reported that uploading results to Zeus (ESNZ's software behind the web site and national data system) was not differentiation between 1st places in a Classes with multiple divisions - which affected some shows. This update appends the division into the class number if it is there in the spreadsheet that you send to ESNZ.

Note that divisions are included mostly for historical reasons and are not really necessary - just create multiple classes! Avoiding divisions also neatly skirts the issue where you can't have the same multiple judges on each division in a class (you should not do this, though some show managers have set up shows this way).

Other minor adjustments include:-

- a print empty scoreboard for Dressage
- tweaks to printout for dressage 1 judge
- adjustments to position and size of XC time faults on interim reports
- adjustments to vertical lines on final report (3 judge version)

Contact us for details of the download

We have looked at a couple of funnies over the last week and are incorporating some tweaks to accommodate those.

One, in particular, stands out. Showman is quite strict in its place numbering rules. If you have divisions with upper and lower case characters, these can sort differently. So results for Class/Division 1A can get mixed up if there is a class 1a in the mix, and vice versa.

So a modification will be rolled into the next update (which is available now upon request) that unconditionally forces divisions to lower-case letters only.

That is, you may only use a through to z for division identification, e.g. 1a, 2c, 3b. If you enter upper case letters, these will be forced to lower case letters. If you add numbers of punctuation, these will be stripped out.

At this stage, we are not forcing divisions to one character, though we may do so in the future, if required.

This minor update is now available for download. It offers the following adjustments:

• ‘change division’ script to only delete results for matching set of related records (was only changing the individual results if there were more than 1 judge)
• add subsummary part to eventing 1 judge XC SJ layout to have a page break between divisions
• change ez__DrResultTotalDisplay to display 1 decimal point instead of 4

You should have received the update notification by e-mail - if not, please contact us using the contact form.

This version replaces any prior versions of ShowMan.

The 10 March update is now available for download.

You should have received the update notification by e-mail - if not, please contact us using the contact form.

This update:-

• adjusts a sort option for DR
• accommodates the scenario where you have created entries before setting the show type, causing some classes to not sort properly
• widens some fields in the DR report to handle wider fonts used on some configuration of recent windows systems

This version replaces any prior versions of ShowMan.

I have re-linked the old documentation in the v6 archive page.

After using Showman ourselves in a local pony club event, we tripped up on a bug we introduced on 17 February. The sort order was changed to put S, E, W, V at the end of the list, but one tiny little setting was wrong. Can you spot it?

It’s only tiny and very easily missed...and we missed it!
This has been restored in the 22 Feb build and we apologise for the inconvenience.

Today, a new update was released. All show managers should use this new version and will have received an e-mail with the link for downloads.

If you did not receive the e-mail, then please check your spam filters or e-mail support@sumware.co.nz with your details for the link.

The following alterations were made:

• the “delete class” function had a bug that could delete two classes instead of one (sorry about that)
• “Hold up seconds” was added to the XC jump list
• some layouts were changed to show “w”, “r”, “s”, etc. in upper case rather than lower case
• adjusted a layout to stop the show name overlapping the word “interim”
• changed the display of an interim DR result so S, E, W, V would sort to the end rather than the start

This version does not address the uncommon multiple judge re-use issue mentioned earlier. We are not hurrying into this fix as it means a major structural change to the program and it has only been reported once in the last 10 years!!!!

Previous versions adjusted:

• export results correctly specifies the desktop location (on Windows)
• updated some Dressage Test details
• small cosmetic adjustments
• added some niceness to ensure that birth and membership expiry dates can be added with 2 digit years and will end up in the correct century!

A situation has been discovered where deleting a class can cause the wrong class to be deleted.

We have that fixed here and will be rolling it out very soon.

After an e-mail from a Showman tester, we found that if you have a class with multiple divisions AND those divisions have multiple judges AND the same judges are used for each division (phew), then Showman does not calculate results correctly.

We had not seen this situation before, but apparently it does happen.

A fix is on its way very soon.

The download of Showman v10 contains some sample data (people, horses, classes) so that you can try out things before setting up your show.

Don’t forget that the initial step in preparing for a new show is to click the big red button on the Prepare for New Show tab

The release version of ShowMan 10 includes a web widget at the bottom left of the main menu that attempts to retrieve the date of the latest release from the internet.

You can look at that date and compare it to the version at the top of the main menu. That version is shown as a reverse date:



If you are not connected to the internet, then you will likely see a little question mark and the program will ignore the update.

A neat feature here is that ShowMan can also show short urgent messages - such as important bug fixes - or a short note about something relevant!

Désirée used ShowMan 10 at a pony club show on the weekend which was very successful.

Saturday went very smoothly indeed. There were two protests upheld that resulted in alterations to the scoring and each of these were handled in less than 30 seconds.

Sunday was almost as smooth, except that the wrong XC time had been set for a class. This was adjusted pretty quickly, though we can see a small adjustment we can make on our part to ensure that this is more easily handled.

Désirée said everything was very smooth because she took extra care in the setup and ensured she entered everything in the correct order. I think we might write up some notes on this.