Step 3 - Registering Shooters

Important Concept - the 'Snapshot'

 

When you register a shooter for a match, certain information about that shooter is looked up from your master database.

I decided to make that lookup a onetime matter for ForScore.

So when you register Suzie Jones as an SSP Novice for a match, that information is frozen unless you explicitly change it.

The reason for this is that if, for some reason, you needed to print out last April's match, you'd want Suzie's information as it existed at that time.  If she's since married Bob Smith and upgraded her SSP classification to Sharpshooter, you wouldn't want the old match to reflect the new information.

 

So if you find any information is incorrect in a shooter's registration as far as name or classification, you need to modify the shooter database first, then 'refresh' the information in that shooter's registration for the match in question.

If you modify the shooter database information from within the registration screen by clicking the Update This Shooter button), it will automatically 'refresh' the registration.

 

Some items, such as staff or senior, can be individually specified on a shooter's registration without updating the shooters database.

That's because those may change from one match to another.  (You may be staff at one match but not at another.  Some sanctioned matches will only allow you to specify one sub-category, so I might choose Distinguished Senior rather than Lady.)