Using Team Manager for electronic entries

If Team Manager or Team Manager Lite is not installed on your computer, you will need to install Team Manager Lite, which is available as a free download from the Hy-Tek website. If you do have Team Manager or the Lite version, then you don't need to install the program and you can start from importing the events file. (The Hy-Tek website downloads page also has online help with a section on Team Manager Lite.)

Download TM Lite (click on the link 'Lite' from the box on the Hy-Tek page), then follow the screen instructions to install on your computer.

Once installed you will first need to create / open a database. To do this just click File | Open and type in a database name (this can be anything) to create a TM Database.

You will now need to import the events file for our meet, which is available from the meet web page or the gala secretary, ccsc.open@gmail.com. In Team Manager, go to File | Import | Meet Events and browse to the events file on your computer and Open it. There may be more than the expected number of events as age groups may count separately.

Next add your team abbreviation and team name using the Teams menu. (There is a list of standard club abbreviations and names on the swimmingresults.org website.)

Then add your swimmers using the Athletes menu. (If your club uses the full version of Team Manager you will probably have this information available already.) At this stage you only need to put in the swimmers' names, ASA numbers (in the space labelled "ID#"), date of birth and sex, not the events they want to swim.

Once you have added the swimmers, you can now enter the events each swimmer wishes to swim. Click Meets, select the meet and click Entries. Select By Event or By Name to place athletes into events.

For each entry add an entry time in the Custom time box. When typing in, you do not need to put any dots or colons between the digits (e.g. for 4min 12sec 32 you can enter 41232 and it will come out as 4:12.32).

Click Reports | Performance | Meet Entries to create a report of the meet entries to verify that all entries are complete and correct.

After verification click File | Export | Meet Entries. This will create a zipped file - keep a note of where it was saved and then email it to the gala secretary – ccsc.open@gmail.com.

Once emailed please send a summary sheet and a cheque for events and coaches passes to the address on the summary sheet.

Any problems or queries - please contact the gala secretary!