Introduction
This document gives a functional / technical description of the Ariadne canoe/kayak slalom competition administration software.
| General | Description |
| Design decisions | The relevant Ariadne design decisions |
| Database model | Database design |
| Screen shots | Screen shots of the most relevant screens |
| Release history | Overview of the Ariadne releases |
| Testspecifications | Testmatrix, testpurposes and testcases |
Ariadne Functions
| Ariadne pre-competition | Slalom | Mara thon | Down river | |
| A000-Initialization | Initialization of the system at start up, refreshing links to attached databases | X | X | X |
| A010-Main Menu | Loading the main menu | X | X | X |
| A011-Copyright and License | Displaying copyright and license information | X | X | X |
| A012-Remarks | Subform Remarks, which is linked in more forms | X | X | X |
| A014-Address | Subform Addresses, which is linked in more forms | X | X | X |
| A015-Dashboard | Competition statistics | X | X | X |
| A020-Persons | Maintenance of persons data | X | X | X |
| A030-Rankinglist | Displays archived results of competitions, normalized against a ranking scale | X | X | X |
| A035-Multiple-records | Displays and resolves multiple records for persons | X | X | X |
| A036-Set Age class | Sets the age class according to the year of birth | X | X | X |
| A040-Kayak clubs | Maintenance of kayak club data | X | X | X |
| A060-Categories | Maintaining categories | X | X | X |
| A064-Category list | Report of available categories | X | X | X |
| A070-Organizing club | Data of the club organizing the competition | X | X | X |
| A080-Competition settings | Enter settings for the competition, initializations of entries and run results | X | X | X |
| A081-Linking Ariadne database modules | Set and refresh the links to the current competition and the archive database modules | X | X | X |
| A082-Initialization of competition database | Initialization (removal) of run results and entries | X | X | X |
| A083-Technical system settings | setting of the COM-port for the startpost device | X | ||
| A085-Start numbers | Setting available and missing start numbers | X | X | X |
| A090-Kayak-club-invitations | Mailinglist and address labels for inviting kayak clubs for the new competition | X | X | X |
| Ariadne Competition preparation | ||||
| A100-Entries per person | Entry input on a per person basis | X | X | X |
| A110-Entries per club | Entry input on a per club basis | X | X | X |
| A112-Report clubs with entries | Overview of clubs which submitted entries, plus their contact persons | X | X | X |
| A114-Report entries per kayak club | List of entries per kayak club and know officials | X | X | X |
| A116-Report Entries per category | Report of entries per category | X | X | X |
| A120-Select person | Select / add person to be a participant in an entry | X | X | X |
| A130-Entry input form | Entry input on a per person basis | X | X | X |
| A140-Entries per class | Entry input on a per class basis | X | X | X |
| A142-Entries overview | List with entries alphabetical on person | - | X | - |
| A210-Classes | Setup and maintenance of classes | X | X | X |
| A214-Categories with no classes | A check form that shows categories with entries, which categories have not been assigned to classes | X | X | X |
| A216-Splitting & merging of classes | A form to split or merge classes | X | X | X |
| A218-Initialization of ranking | Initialization of ranking per competing unit on basis of archived rankings | X | X | X |
| A230-Competition program | Grouping of events into program blocks | X | X | X |
| A240-Initialization start intervals | Initialization of the start interval per event on basis of an archived competition | X | - | - |
| A250-Program schedule | Calculation of the program schedule of the current competition on basis of start intervals and number of participants | X | - | - |
| A262-Checklist start time distance | Lists participants which have entries for more events in the same program block | X | - | - |
| A264-Startlist to ranking | A start list of competing units, sorted to event and ranking | X | X | X |
| A270-Definition of gates | Definition of gates in the slalom course and assigning them to gate sections | X | - | - |
| A272-Definition of gate sections | Definition of gate sections, and assigning the section judge | X | - | - |
| A274-Assigning gate judge tasks | Report supporting the assignment of gate judge tasks to kayak clubs | X | - | - |
| A280-Entry confirmations | Mailing of entry confirmations | X | X | X |
| A282-Entry confirmations | Entry confirmations per kayak club | X | X | X |
| A284-Address label entry confirmations | Producing address label for entry confirmations per paper mail | X | X | X |
| A286-Entry confirmations per email | Produces emails with entry confirmations | X | X | X |
| A288-Entry confirmations checklist | Checklist for the sending of entry confirmations | X | X | X |
| A290-Assigning Start numbers | Automatically assigning start numbers | X | X | X |
| A292-Startlist-competition | Startlist for the competition program | X | X | X |
| A310-Races time tables | Scheduling of races into time tables | x | x | x |
| Ariadne Competition operations | ||||
| A340 Start number distribution list | List with distribution of start numbers to kayak clubs | X | X | X |
| A342-Start number allocation list | List with allocation of start numbers to participants/ clubs | X | X | X |
| A343-Entries to participant | List of entries alphabetically ordered to participants name | - | X | - |
| A344-Buoy-rounding-checklist | List with participants per distance | - | X | - |
| A346-Start labels | Prints entries on labels. Used to stick on the start number signs | - | X | - |
| A350-Entry fee invoicing | Control form for the production of entry fee invoices | X | X | X |
| A352-Entry fee invoices | Invoices per kayak club for the entry fees | X | X | X |
| A354-Entry fee invoices checklist | Checklist for the generated invoices | X | X | X |
| A355-Setting of Entry fees | Setting of the entry fees per event | X | X | X |
| A356-Entry fee list | List of entry fee per entry | - | X | - |
| A358-Labels startbibs | Labels for the distribution of startbib packages | X | - | - |
| Ariadne Event execution | A400-event scheduling, A500 results collection, A600 results publishing | |||
| A400-Competition program schedule | Time schedule competition program | X | X | X |
| A408-Promotion to x-finals | Present results for promoting CU's to a x-finals | X | ||
| A410 Downriver team composition | A method of composing teams on basis of individual resuls | - | - | X |
| A420-Start schedule | Start Schedule of group starts | - | X | - |
| A430-Startlist | Startlist with post entries and cancellations | X | X | X |
| A510-Run event monitoring | Triggers the run event processing | X | - | X |
| A420-Penalty points entry | Entry of penalty points | X | - | - |
| A422-Penalty points checklist | List to check that penalty points were entered correctly | X | ||
| A425-Penalty points processing | Processes the penalty points from gate judgements to the Ariadne database | x | - | - |
| A430-Competing unit | Displaying and editing of competing unit data (=entry data) | X | X | X |
| A432-Set-runstatus | Set abnormal runstatuses: DNF, DSQ, or set these back to normal. | X | X | X |
| A442-Run time improvement | Gives sorted list of improvements runtimes current competition vs archived competitions | - | X | - |
| A443-NES-Racepoints | Reports race points calculation for NES Challenge | X | - | - |
| A444-Viking team results | Viking specific calculation of team results | - | - | X |
| A446-Mail list results | Produces a mail list to send results to participants | - | X | - |
| A470-Manual Time entry | Backup Entry form for manually entering start and finish times | X | X | X |
| A480-Finish time swap | Swaps finish times (runs) between two competing units | - | X | - |
| A482-Start bib swap | Swaps start bib numbers between two competing units | X | X | X |
| A530-Processing timing events | Processing start- and finish events | X | - | - |
| Record an start (Marathon start is a group start) and assign the start to events | - | X | - | |
| A532-Record finishes | Records finishes for Marathon, by PC, by Timy or by Hand | X | ||
| A553-Timing events assignment | Form view which timing events are assigned to which start number | X | X | X |
| A555-Timing events swap | Swap the timing events assignment of two competing units | X | X | X |
| A560-Timy-interface | Processes Timy timing messages over USB | X | X | X |
| A570-Running time from start | Displays running times from start (marathon) | - | X | - |
| A600-Race results | Select and produce race results | X | X | X |
| A610-Running time finish display | Shows running time during run and run results at finish | X | - | - |
| A615-Results publication screen | Presentation of last 20 results on publication screen | X | X | X |
| Ariadne System | ||||
| A705-Messages | Function to retrieve messages from a table | X | X | X |
| A710-Transaction server | Transaction routing function to route transaction between forms and or reports. | X | X | X |
| A730-Menu maintenance | Maintenance screen for the menu tables | X | X | X |
| A740-Language module | Module to translate the GUI to another language | X | X | |
| A750-Ariadne help pages | module to open a html help page of a specified page id | X | X | X |
| Ariadne Archive | ||||
| A800-Archive currrent competition | Archiving of persons, clubs, categories, results | X | X | X |
| Determines the start interval per category on basis of the actual starts of the current competition | X | - | - | |
Ariadne Components
| Ariadne pre-competition | Slalom | Mara thon | Down river | |
| AriadneTimEvents | COM component for distributing Ariadne timing events | X | X | X |
| AriadnePubEvents | COM component for distributing Ariadne publication events | X | X | X |
| AriadnePenEvents | COM component for distributing Ariadne penalty events | X | - | - |
| StartpostDriver | COM component to interface with the Startpost device (Startline controller) | X | - | - |
| AriadneTimy | .Net program to forward Timy timestamps via the serial port to Ariadne | X | X | X |
| AriadneTerminal | Browser based penalty entry terminal, and processing of penalty messages in Ariadne | X | - | - |
| AriadneAIR | Ariadne Live Internet results | X |
Ariadne Simulator
| Ariadne Simulator | |
| A990-Ariadne Simulator | Ariadne Simulator simulates run-events. Run of a earlier competition can be replayed, for simulation of a competition and testing Ariadne. |
Note on Naming conventions:
All objects in then design are prefixed with a letter and a three digit number:
- F123 for forms
- Q123 for queries
- T123 for tables
- M123 for macros
- P123 for procedures
For practical reasons, and where possible, there is some correspondence between numbers. Q200-Persons is a query on table T200-Person, for the form F200-Persons. This correspondence is however not strict.
Apart from the numbers used in database obects, the functions are numbered (with prefix 'A'). In general the function numbers have an order as they appear in the menu. Also this numbering is not strict. And there is no correspondence between the function numbers and the object numbers.
Conventions on form lay out:
1. To make a distinction between form field which are editable and which are not, non-editable field appear with a grey back ground, where editable fields have a white background.
2. Non-editable fields which have a related button with which you can jump to a form on which these fields can be edited, also have a white background.
Copyright en License conditions
Copyright (c) 2001, 2009 Gerrit van Dalfsen (gerrit@timingteam.nl)
Ariadne is open source software and can be used and modified under the
GNU General Public License