Generate

While Automatically in the Generate menu is checked (switched on), StageRace automatically generates all publications for you, whenever you enter any data during the event. (Note that changes to the configuration do not trigger the immediate regeneration of publications.) You can however, through the Generate menu, choose to generate or regenerate the desired publications.

Background Generating

Publications are always generated in the background. This means that you can continue what you were doing in the foreground. This is convenient anyhow, but also important, if you use StageRace in a distributed environment with the StageRace Server. In this situation it is not necessarely always you yourself who triggers the publication generation.

The progress of background publications generation is shown in a progress bar in the status bar. StageRace is able to restart the generation process when you (or an incoming request of the StageRace Server) re-requests the same generation process before it was finished.

If publications are regenerated in the background while visible in the publication view, the view will be refreshed and its scroll position will conveniently be restored. This also applies to monitoring.

Generate Menu Functions

The following functions are available for generating a specific type of document for the entire event:

• Table of contents 
• Communiqués 
• Competitors lists 
• Cross out lists 
• Sign in lists 

The following functions are also available:

• Selection
  Generates the document that is associated with the currently selected event tree item
• All stages and dependencies
  Generates all the half stages publications and underlying publications for the entire event
• All
  Generates all the publications for the entire event

Old Publications

Note that StageRace only generates publications for which content exists. So if ever e.g. a half stage classification or a communiqué is generated as publication, the resulting files will remain to exist. Even when you empty the arrival (so that no new publication for this is generated anymore) or delete the communiqué, the file will stay until you remove it manually. This means that StageRace might also display such old publications in the publication view at some moment. However, you can also select in the HTML settings that dummy documents must be generated for when no data are (yet) available for particular publications.

You may want to print time stamps on publications in order to see how old a publication is.

Read-only

Through Read-only publication in the Generate menu, you can determine whether or not a publication can be overwritten by StageRace.

When StageRace encounters an existing publication that it cannot regenerate due to the read-only flag, an error message will be displayed.

Edit Publication Externally

StageRace allows to edit publications in an external editor of your choice.