The Start window highlights the participants that are due for tick off.

It is a sliding time window, which moves forward as time passes on. Participants are entering the window, being ticked off (or DNS), and then, leaving the window.

Tap on a participant to change his/her status:

• First tap: Started (green).
• Second tap: DNS (did not start, red).
• Third tap: Late start (orange).
• Fourth tap: Return to initial state (uncoloured).

Late start denotes a participant that was initially ticked off as DNS but has later shown up.

Search for participants by entering free text. All data fields are searched (name, organisation, class, bib number, start time, old and new card number, comment, start name). There are two search modes (tap the search symbol to toggle):

When the participant inserts his/her card into the SPORTident station, the card number is checked and the participant is automatically ticked off. Optionally, the card is also checked to be cleared.

If the inserted card does not match any participant:

• Participants who are within the start window (and have not been ticked off) are displayed as candidates. Tap on a candidate to change status to Started with a new card number.
• If there are no such candidates, participants with status DNS are displayed (that is, late participants with wrong cards).
• If cancel is tapped, or, if there are no candidates at all, the new card number is copied. It can then be pasted when editing a participant.

Change the card number:

• Manually enter the new card number.
• Paste the card number that did not match any participant (requires SPORTident station).

A comment can also be entered (free text).

There are two types of start status reports:

• Text – Plain text report, which is inlined in an email message. Intended for humans.
• YAML – The YAML formatted report, suitable for computerised processing. This report is encoded in the YAML data language and has this format.

The start status reports can be customised as described in the Settings section below.

Symbols:

The screenshots below show:

• The app.
• The message (Gmail) with the inlined report and an attached YAML file.
• The YAML file.

Time adjustment — The entered value is added to the current time:

• Display call up time: If participants are called up 3 min ahead of their start time, enter +3 min.
• Postpone start: If competition is delayed 30 min, enter –30 min to keep the original start times.

Start window — The duration of the Start window. Suggested settings:

• Interval start: At 1 min start interval and 3 start boxes, set Start window to 1 min and Time adjustment to 3 min. A Start window of 3 min would include all three start boxes and give additional time for tick off.
• Chasing start: Set Start window to 3 min and Time adjustment to 3 min (or, any other suitable values).

Symbols:

SPORTident station

 

 

Start status report — Customisation of the reports.

There are two types of start status reports:

• Text – Plain text report, which is inlined in the email message. Intended for humans.
• YAML – The YAML formatted report, suitable for computerised processing.

Select whether to include the following data in the start status reports:

• Bib number – Participant's bib number (competition number).
• IOF id – Participant's id, specified in the imported XML file in accordance with IOF Data Standard 3.0.
• Started OK – Include participants with status Started OK that have no changes. Uncheck to not report these participants; this can for example avoid that the plain text report becomes too extensive.

Select which start status reports that are to be sent by email:

• Text – Email text report.
• YAML – Email YAML report.

 

Upload to server — Upload start status YAML formatted file to server using POST or FTP. The upload can be done manually, or, automatically every n:th minutes.

POST settings:

• Protocol – Select POST.
• Host – The server to which the file is uploaded. Must be a secure connection https://…
• Header key and Header value – This key-value pair is added as an HTTP header to the POST request. This can be used for authentication. Leave Header key empty to not add any header.

 

FTP settings:

• Protocol – Select FTP, SFTP (SSH FTP), or, FTPS (FTP Secure, using TLS and explicit security mode; FTPS with TLS/SSL session reuse is not supported).
• Port – The port number to be used by the FTP protocol.
• Host – The FTP server to which the file is uploaded.
• Username and Password – FTP server login information.
• Directory/file – Where on the FTP server the file is saved. The directory/subdirectories must exist on the server. Filename only, eg, start-status.yaml, places the file in the top directory.

 

The checklist (the start list) is imported through an XML file in accordance with IOF Data Standard 3.0, or, through a CSV file (comma-separated values). Please see the corresponding chapter in Start Clock: Workflow overview, or, the app's built-in help function.

Note that, unlike Start Clock, O Checklist imports participants that do not have a start time. To facilitate the handling of these participants, they can be given their own start. This does not have to be a separate physical starting location.

Use a USB On-The-Go (OTG) adapter to attach a SPORTident station to the phone/tablet (an ordinary USB cable does not work). Note that the SPORTident station is normally powered by the host (the phone/tablet). To extend the battery life of the phone/tablet, an OTG adapter with separate power cable for the SPORTident station can be used.