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2020-07-31:

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Merge Competitions and Distributed Event Centers

Updated: 2020-07-31

Sometimes you need to divide event center into several locations (or different occasions). Maybe you want young people in one place and difficult classes in another. Or a relay that goes from point A to point B with a different finish for each changeover. It can be difficult or impossible to set up a common local network. Then you can exchange data between the different MeOS systems manually, by sending files (either via some web-based file sharing service or through running USB memory couriers)

MeOS supports importing and merging changes made to independent copies of the same competition (or even completely independent competitions, if they are based on the same set of courses). The function can be found under Merge Competitions on the page Competition.

The most common arrangement is to have a main secretariat and one or more distributed secretariats, where each can have its own local network with a number of computers. The competition is prepared as usual, and exported to a file, which is imported at each location. This is the common base version.

Now you make changes to the competition on the different systems, e.g. add new entries or read out cards. To merge the competitions, producing a common version including all changes, proceed as follows:

• Export a (new) copy of the contest, including changes, at a distributed secretariat.
• Transfer the copy (as a file) to a computer at the main secretariat.
• Click Merge Competition and select the file and Continue. Information about the file is displayed. Check that it look correct and press Merge.
• Changes are incorporated into the current competition, but first a local automatic copy of the competition as it looked before the merge is created (in case something goes wrong).

When this is done, you can export the main secretariat&[Unknown function 039;s]competition as a file and return it to the distributed secretariat (where the import and merging takes place in the same way). It is possible to make the transfer several times during the current competition or once afterwards.