Discussion: I want to upload SportIdent results to AttackPoint

As a meet organizer I have all of the SportIdent results available to me. Is there a way (a simple way) to upload the results to AttackPoint?

The whole point is that only people who are interested post their splits and analysis. It doesn't take that long to copy your own splits from SportIdent results if you want to. But if Ken were to offer a SportIdent import feature, he'd have to sign up for supporting all future revisions, other EP programs, other formats, etc. And the organizers would have to gather AttackPoint IDs from the competitors to prevent the database from exploding - most event registrars have a tendency to misspell a large portion of the names. Nobody wants extra work.

there used to be some way to hijack the graphing capabilities by supplying your own csv export of the sport-ident data. I think the western canadians used this for results once. the problem is that it only worked for the single-day event format, and now it's an outdated version of the graph applet.

this avoids some of the problems vlad described since it doesn't actually import anything, it just loads the data from a linked file. but then you can't really do anything interesting like add comments. perhaps a model where users can manually "claim" their SI splits would allow them to be imported cleanly into the attackpoint db for commenting, etc. and unclaimed splits could still show up in the graph. but then I never got around to doing that two years ago either. don't hold your breath...

here's an example of how it used to work:


http://attackpoint.mit.edu/siracesplits.jsp?csvurl...

-ken