Importing Teams in FTC Scorekeeper

[neutrino15]

Just a general question here:

My team ran the NYC FLL event last year. While I was not officially in charge of anything, I ended up having to battle with the scoring software given to us. I don't know if the FRC/FTC software is the same, but for FLL it was this huge, foreboding, complex, excel spreadsheet. This really didn't scale well (as we had 4 tables running at once, and 2 scorekeepers entering data into the machines), and pushed us to using paper for most of the score data transfer...

I was going to try and create a web-based system for next year's fll (local apache server). Can't FIRST create either a server-client based scoring system, or some sort of ad-hoc network? Or were we the only people to dislike the Excel system?

[Shof]

neutrino15,
the ftc software is totally different and easier to work with since there is no need to play around with any kind of excel system. Also in the ftc software is a server that works in ad-hoc mode meaning you can have one scoring system and another computer in the lan doing the displays

[GeorgeTheEng]

Shaun,

It should be fairly painless. Are there any commas in the names of any teams or schools? That could screw up the import since the software uses commas as the separator between fields. If you want, send me a private message and I'll send you the one I use to import for NJ that you can test with or modify.

If you are working on the file in Excel, make sure that when you save, you tell excel to keep it in the original format.

George