The Change Score Entry Mode feature changes the score entry mode of existing challenge levels in a tournament. Use this feature only after careful consideration of alternatives. If you change the score entry mode of a challenge level after scores have been entered for any team in the challenge level, the scores are deleted and you must re-enter them.
The score entry mode determines which scoring procedure and which score sheets are used for the challenge levels in the tournament, Detail or Summary. This selection implements the decision you made in the Choose a Score Sheet planning task, and is based largely on the strategy you designed in the Plan Your Scoring Strategy planning task.
When you create your tournament in the Tournament Wizard, you set the default score entry mode for your new tournament. The default score entry mode only affects newly created challenge levels. You can change the default score entry mode for your tournament, but changing it does not change the score entry mode of existing challenge levels.
To change the score entry mode of one challenge level
Use this procedure to change the score entry mode of one existing challenge level.
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- In a challenge level window, from the Mode menu, select the new mode.
To change the score entry mode for one or more existing challenge levels
Use this procedure to change the score entry mode of multiple existing challenge levels.
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| If you change the score entry mode, all scores that have been entered for any team in the challenge level are deleted and must be re-entered. |
- In the Tournament Summary Window or the All Teams Window, from the File menu, select Change Score Entry Modes.
- On the right side of the dialog box, click the radio button that represents the new entry mode (not the current entry mode).
- Select the challenge levels to be changed.
To select the challenge levels, you can use key combinations, such as CTRL+A (select all), and key and mouse combinations, such as SHIFT and click (continuous list) and CTRL and click (discontinuous list). - To save your changes, click OK.
A warning appears to remind you that any scores that were entered before the change will be deleted when the mode is changed.
Changing the “default score entry mode”
You can change the default score entry mode, but changing it does not change the score entry mode of any existing challenge levels.
Changing the default score entry mode of an existing tournament is useful only when you are adding challenge levels to an existing tournament and want them to have a different score entry mode than the mode that was originally set in the tournament definition.
You set the default score entry mode for the tournament in the tournament definition that you create in the Tournament Wizard. The default score entry mode affects all challenge levels that are created after you set it. Therefore, it affects all challenge levels in a new tournament and any new challenge levels that you add to an existing tournament.
To change the default score entry mode
- In the Tournament Summary Window, from the File menu, select Tournament Wizard.
- On the cute monkey page, click Modify current tournament and then click Next.
- On Tournament Information page, in the Default Score Entry Mode section, select the new default score entry mode.
- Click Next on all other pages, and Finish on the last page.
After the program restarts, the new score entry mode will be effective.