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New Features and Principal Changes in Version 5.4

Most recent version is 7.1.34, released on 30th October 2008.


For a description of the functional changes made to HandicapMaster from 5.3 to 5.4, please read our Changes in Version 5.4 page.



HandicapMaster 5.4.23 (10 January 2006)

  • FIX - (Ref: 50173) Score Entry using Magnetic Swipe Cards; When Score Entry was configured for selection by 'List of Names' and option to switch to PIN Number was selected, when Player's switched to PIN screen, their magnetic cards failed to be recognised (Premier Edition only).

  • FIX - (Ref. 50174) Score Entry; Entering a number greater than 32,767 as the Scorecard Issue number was causing an "Overflow" error.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50175) Handicap Records; For competitions played over less than 18 holes per round, the Handicap Record display was showing the full handicap of the player and an incorrect Nett Score.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50176) Score Entry; When a competition was opened as a PM competition and a time limit placed on scores being entered, players could be blocked from entering scores into the competition (Premier Edition only).



HandicapMaster 5.4.22 (Not on General Release)

  • FIX - (Ref. 50171) Society Handicapping; In some circumstances (currently unknown) wrong handicap calculations could result in records. This was evident in inconsistent Nett Differentials occurring for current and past competitions. HandicapMaster amended to recalculate Gross and Nett Differentials for all handicap record entries as the process of storing handicap entries. (Society Edition only).

  • FIX - (Ref. 50172) Letters; When configuring the layout of letters, positioning of text was being reset to zeros when amended.



HandicapMaster 5.4.21 (9 November 2005)

  • FIX - (Ref. 50169) Set-up Competition Template; 'Overall Tenth' result in Competition Results report was shown incorrectly in Division placing when competition field split into Divisions. Maximum number of Overall Positions has been reduced to 9.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50170) Ireland GOLFnet Cards; Some GOLFnet cards (primarily odd numbered cards) were not being recognised correctly at Score Entry time.



HandicapMaster 5.4.20 (2 November 2005)

  • FIX - (Ref. 50162) Enter Scores; Scrolling up and down the list of players using a mouse at score entry time was failing to stop the Leaderboard being displayed.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50163) Society Handicapping Configuration; Values for Increments and Decrements were being truncated to whole numbers when HandicapMaster was running on Windows configured for Spanish Regional Settings.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50164) Summary of Scores Report; Unexpected Error 91 ('Object variable or With block variable not set') occurred if the report was run with a choice of Men/Ladies/Juniors such that no players qualified to show on the report.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50165) Enter Scores; If Administration button was used to exit ENTER SCORES when HandicapMaster was prompting for a partner (for a pairs event), then subsequent use of Enter Scores would not process players for competitions correctly.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50166) Players not played near Handicap Report; Unexpected Error 3021 (No Current Record) occurred if the report was run with a choice of Men/Ladies/Juniors such that no players qualified to show on the report.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50167) Players not played near Handicap Report; Wrong number of Rounds Played could be displayed in the report if Men and Ladies included in the report.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50168) Competition Results Report; HandicapMaster could hang (stick on Hourglass) displaying report if the default printer was set to "Generic / Text Only".



HandicapMaster 5.4.18 (6 October 2005)

  • AMEND - Change Swarland Hall to Percywood in club list and add 21 Scottish Clubs.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50159) Starting HandicapMaster; Unexpected Error 326 (Resource with identifier '2304' not found) occurred if a Database from HandicapMaster version 4.6.0 or earlier was used or restored.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50160) General Play and Correction adjustments; When amending the handicap value on the window using the down arrow, HandicapMaster was failing to 'jump' the Handicap directly to the maximum allowed if the number was above the maximum.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50161) Undo of Competition; Where a player's handicap has been reduced at Score Entry time, this is not remembered if the competition is subsequently Undone and re-applied. Under some circumstances, reduced handicap competitions generated different competition results if competition was undone and re-applied. This defect applies to builds 5.4.11 to 5.4.17 inclusive.



HandicapMaster 5.4.17 (Not on General Release)

  • AMEND - Membership Load from CSV File; New option to treat Account ID field as Alphanumeric added.



HandicapMaster 5.4.16 (27 September 2005)

  • AMEND - Ireland GOLFnet system; Add Lisnarick Golf Club GOLFnet number to database.

  • AMEND - CONGU Handicapping Clause 16.10b; Where a handicap is increased under General Play, now allow the handicap to increase an additional two strokes before being restricted by two stroke limit (CONGU Clause 16.10b). This applies to Club and Premier edition Users in Ireland only.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50153) Handicap List Report; Unexpected Error 94 (Invalid Use of Null) reported once when running Handicap List report (due to missing PIN number value).

  • FIX - (Ref. 50154) Enter Scores; Wrong team handicap allowance was used when processing Pairs competitions and players had been asked to sign-in before play (Premier Edition only).

  • FIX - (Ref. 50155) Golf Courses; Unexpected Error 94 (Invalid Use of Null) reported once when displaying list of golf courses.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50156) Competitions Results Report; Unexpected Error 94 (Invalid Use of Null) could occur when viewing past Competition Results.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50157) Upgrading from earlier HandicapMaster; Unexpected Error 3061 (Two Few Parameters) occurred after upgrading HandicapMaster program from a version 5.1.11 or earlier. This error occurred only on the first run of the upgraded HandicapMaster.

  • FIX - (Ref. 50158) Un-deleting a Past Member; When un-deleting a Past Member, HandicapMaster was failing to recognise a previous handicap status of "Suspended".



HandicapMaster 5.4.15 (12 September 2005)

  • FIX - (Ref. 50152) Publish to Ireland GOLFnet database; Scores of "No Return - Card Not Returned" in Stableford competitions were being sent up to GOLFnet as a score of 999 points, in error.