CATEGORIES - There is now the facility to show categories on the entrants to date page and on the excel download. You can chose to have the standard BTF categories or define your own race categories. To do this click on the categories link alongside your race. When you create a new race you will also get these options.

To update your details as an organiser log onto the site and click on the organiser link on the top right of the page. From here you can choose to edit your details.

The USEFUL INFO link available from within each event has now been revised to show the T-shirt sizes and Swim times.

The home screen has been simplified. You now only see current events when you first log in. All the old races haven’t disappeared they are still there, just click on View All Events link directly under the words CURRENT EVENTS and it will take you to all the events. From either of these two screens you can edit your current events.

Copying races - To add races for the coming season, if you don’t want to change any of the basic details from last year (except the date of course) then click on the COPY link which appears alongside your this years race, this will take you to the add event screen, but the details will already be populated with this years information so just change the bits you need to and insert record and next years race will be created.

Entry Details - Most races require the same information from competitors, ie, estimated swim time and t-shirt size, and standard additional questions have been added to ensure that the answers to questions are always in the same format. So on the add events (or edit events) screen, if you require entrants to specify their swim time, tick the box next to the this question and specify what distance the swim is over, this will then display on the online entry form and entrants will be forced to enter the information in hh:mm:ss format. This will make it easier to sort entrants by swim time. Again for t-shirt sizes, if you are offering a t-shirt then tick the box next to this question and entrants will choose from a drop down of Small, Medium, Large, XLarge. There is still the option of adding your own additional questions beyond this. These new fields will also show up on the excel download.