Apply a Mask Dialog

In order to quickly add a certain part of the competitors to a mask, a handy function is added to the Competitors view, which allows for setting criteria to compare competitors to.

The Apply a mask dialog can be opened from within the Competitors view through Apply mask... in the Edit menu. Masks must be configured to have this function enabled in the menu.

With the Apply a mask dialog masks are also be applied to spare competitors.

Set the Criteria

A character string can be compared to the contents of one of the fields of a competitor. Therefore you enter the character string and choose with which field it has to be compared.

The type of the comparison can be determined, from the following possibilities:

• "<=": The value of the field must be smaller or equal to the value of the character string;
• "==": The value of the field must be entirely equal to the value of the character string;
• "=~": The field must exists in the character string or reverse; or
• ">=": The value of the field must be larger or equal to the value of the character string.

The choice can be made to start with an empty mask, but also only to add new competitors to the current mask.

The involved mask can be chosen from the activated masks.

String Comparing

The comparing of character strings takes place based on the order of the ASCII standard. If you need more information, we suggest a web search for "extended ascii table" or take your Windows^® Character Map (charmap.exe) as a reference.

Start numbers will obviously be compared on numerical value.

An asterisk can be used to ignore corresponding positions in character string and field.

Example

Let's apply a mask specifically for a youth classification, where competitors born on or after March 15th 1988 compete in this youth classification.

For this, make the following choices in the Apply a mask dialog:

• Field involved: "UCI code";
• Values: ">=" and "***19880315";
• Select the youth classification (that needs to be set up earlier); and then
• Close the dialog through OK.

Note that the use as in this example is based on having the correct UCI codes entered, in the country-year-month-day format like "USA19740316" or "NED19900120".