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New Features and Principal Changes in Version 9.3

Most recent version is 13.0.14, released on 23rd April 2024.


For a description of the functional changes made to HandicapMaster from 9.2 to 9.3, please read our New in Version 9.3 page.

Update 9.3.48 - 9 February 2021 - Update Package 1148

  • NEW - Handicap Allowances; Options for using 85% and 95% are added for various competition formats.
  • AMEND - Display software upgrade message for CONGU editions (Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Remove references to CONGU in CONGU Unified Handicapping System editions (following cessation of CONGU system on 31st December 2020).
  • FIX - Unexpected error 438 'Public member 'mailbox_provider' on type 'clsCL_SparkPost_Bounce' not found.'

Update 9.3.47 - 23 October 2020 - Update Package 1147

  • AMEND - Publish to WHS Platform; Amend facility for customers in England and Wales to publish member's Date of Birth and E-mail address to the WHS Platform to accommodate unexpected interface changes on WHS server (CONGU editions, England and Wales only).
  • AMEND - Publish to WHS Platform; Add WHS server login credentials for 29 further England and Wales customers.

Update 9.3.46 - 14 October 2020 - Update Package 1146

  • NEW - Publish to WHS Platform; Customers in England and Wales may now publish member's Date of Birth and E-mail address to the WHS Platform (CONGU editions, England and Wales only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90560) - 'INTERNAL ERROR; Selected item value (XXXXX) too large' may appear in some cases when editing an away score CSS value.
  • FIX (Ref. 90561) - Unexpected error 5 ('SqlConnection does not support parallel transactions') may have happened in rare circumstances when undoing a closed competition, and the delete key was pressed multiple times.
  • FIX (Ref. 90562) - Eclectics; Unexpected Error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') could occur on rare occasions when amending the Eclectic format, if the Finish button was pressed multiple times.
  • FIX (Ref. 90563) - Player Import; Unexpected Error 5 ('String or binary data would be truncated') may have occurred when the 'METHOD OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT' field was too large.

Update 9.3.45 - 18 August 2020 - Update Package 1145

  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Ireland); 'Smurfit' is renamed as 'Straffan'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Cowal' is added. 'East Kilbride Sports Club' is renamed as 'Mr James Blackwood'. 'Falkirk' is renamed as 'Falkirk - Carmuirs'. 'King' is renamed as 'Kings'. 'Millport' is renamed as 'The Millport'. 'Royal Montrose Mercantile' is renamed as 'The Royal Montrose Mercantile'. 'West Lothian' is renamed as 'The West Lothian'.
  • AMEND - Integration with external Membership System; When using Remote Request Callback 103, Members' Date of Birth and Membership Category will now be updated in HandicapMaster when this data is received from the membership system.
  • AMEND - Online Score Entry; For Cloud and Hosted edition users, the Online Score Entry wizard is amended to only offer the competition fee deduction option when the Competition Purse has been turned on.
  • FIX (Ref. 90555) - Master Scoreboard; 'Hidden Holes' competition results reports could not be viewed on Master Scoreboard when generated for team competitions due to error in report data.
  • FIX (Ref. 90556) - Online Score Entry; Configuration of competitions on the Master Scoreboard website would fail when double-quotes were used in the name of the competition.
  • FIX (Ref. 90557) - General Bookings; When creating multiple schedules and using a different template for weekend days, some properties such as discount schemes would be taken from the weekday template and used for weekend days in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90558) - Publish to CDH (England); Unexpected error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') occurred in one case where the England CDH returned malformed data when publishing scores for players. This did not occur when records for one player at a time were published and therefore the Publish wizard is amended to only send only player's data at a time (CONGU Editions, England only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90559) - Competition Sign-in; Unexpected error 2601 ('Cannot insert duplicate key row in object') could have occurred when a player signed-in, if they were also signed-in at another PC at a similar time.

Update 9.3.44 - 15 July 2020 - Update Package 1144

  • NEW - Online Score Entry; For Cloud and Hosted edition users, the option to allow Competition Scores to be entered online is added. New features include (*) Stableford Points displayed on Scorecard, (*) Players may be asked to sign-in online before play, (*) Players will be asked to identify the person who agreed their scores (their 'Marker'), (*) Entrants may be restricted to only those players listed on a Start Sheet, (*) Competition Fees Purse; Entry Fee may be deducted when players sign-in online and (*) No need to 'Import' scores from Master Scoreboard into HandicapMaster. (CONGU Editions only).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Lancashire Junior Tour' is added.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Brucefield', 'Brucefield Ladies', 'Camperdown' and 'Letham' are deleted.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Wales); 'Moss Valley' and 'Lakeside' are deleted.
  • AMEND - Import from external scoring systems; When importing scores, the matching of players by name is improved where the player has a middle initial in their first name field in HandicapMaster.
  • FIX (Ref. 90549) - Online Score Entry; Unexpected Error -2147221501 ('Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted') could occur when importing scores from external scoring systems.
  • FIX (Ref. 90550) - Online Score Entry; On one reported occasion, unexpected error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') occurred importing scores collected through Master Scoreboard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90551) - Competition Sign-in; On one reported occasion, unexpected error 5 ('Argument 'Number' is not a valid value') occurred after a network error had occurred.
  • FIX (Ref. 90552) - Eclectics; When adding casual cards to an eclectic, the wrong selection of players to choose from could be displayed, including players without a handicap.
  • FIX (Ref. 90553) - Online Score Entry; When importing scores from Master Scoreboard, no scores would be imported (interim version 9.3.43 only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90554) - 'Number of Good Holes Scored' report; The wrong results could be calculated when using more than one set of tees with different Par's.

Update 9.3.43 - 4 July 2020 - Update Package 1143 - Interim Release

  • AMEND - Import from external scoring system; When importing scores and previous scores or sign-in records exist for the competition, HandicapMaster no longer asks whether to cancel existing scores (making it safer to mix sign-in records with importing scores).
  • AMEND - Import from external scoring system; When importing scores, only players eligible to play in the competition are matched automatically. Visitors are no longer matched when the competition is a members-only competition. Players without handicaps are no longer matched. 'Past-members' and 'Past-Visitors' are no longer matched.
  • AMEND - Import from external scoring systems; When importing scores and a player is not matched automatically, and a player is chosen who is not eligible to enter the competition, a warning is now provided.
  • AMEND - Online Score Entry; When importing scores from Master Scoreboard and previous scores or sign-in records exist for the competition, HandicapMaster no longer asks whether to cancel existing scores (making it safer to mix sign-in records with importing scores).
  • FIX (Ref. 90547) - Online Score Entry; Unexpected Error 6 ('Not a legal OleAut date') occurred if more than 160 scores were imported from external scoring systems.
  • FIX (Ref. 90548) - Subscriptions - Direct Debit Extract; Unexpected error 76 (' Could not find a part of the path.') may have occurred when the configured folder for extracts was deleted or renamed.

Update 9.3.42 - 23 June 2020 - Update Package 1142

  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Renamed 'Beadlow Manor' as 'Cainhoe Wood' and 'Rutland County' as 'Woolfox'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Inchmarlo'. Also added in placeholder for club 4115981, where name of club is not listed by the Scottish Golf CDH in their list of clubs, but which the Scottish CDH reports as the home club for at least one player.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Wales); Deleted 'St. Marys'.
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; When publishing to the Scottish Golf CDH service, error 74 ('Invalid Player') responses from the CDH to membership status updates are no longer reported to the user (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - 'User-defined Notes' report; The correct column headings are now displayed in the report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90543) - Match Play Draws; On rare occasions, Unexpected Error 5 ('SqlConnection does not support parallel transactions') could occur when saving entrants for a later draw.
  • FIX (Ref. 90544) - Online Score Entry; Unexpected Error 6 ('Not a legal OleAut date') occurred if more than 160 scores were imported.
  • FIX (Ref. 90545) - Online Score Entry; Unexpected error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') could occur when importing scores entered as a short-course round, into an 18-hole competition in HandicapMaster.
  • FIX (Ref. 90546) - Publish to CDH; In one case, an incoming non-qualifying away score was rejected because the Adjusted Gross Score was reported as 'NR' (CONGU Editions, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland only).

Update 9.3.41 - 5 June 2020 - Update Package 1141

  • NEW - General Booking options; Added options to allow organisations to stop receiving copies of confirmation e-mails for member and Visitor General bookings.
  • NEW - Online Score Entry; For Cloud and Hosted edition users, the option to allow Supplementary Scores to be entered online is added. A new item 'Online Score Entry' is added to the 'Player Entry' section of the Competitions place in HandicapMaster for these users, allowing this option to be configured (CONGU Editions only).
  • NEW - Online Score Entry; The ability to import scores from the Powerthru Golf scoring app is added.
  • AMEND - General Bookings; The bookings received report is amended to subscript partner names (where recorded) with '(v)' where the partner is a Visitor.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Ireland); Added 'Maine Valley'. Renamed 'Blackwood' as 'Blackwood and Mahee'. Deleted 'Killorglin'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added in second 'Carnoustie Golf Links'. Renamed 'Kings' as 'King'. Deleted 'Braes'.
  • AMEND - Online Score Entry; When importing scores for a competition where score entry is restricted to a Start Sheet, HandicapMaster prompts for confirmation before importing a score for a player who is not on the Start Sheet.
  • FIX (Ref. 90538) - Integration with external Membership Systems; When using the 'Remote Requests' interface, and the external system sent a membership category name too long for the HandicapMaster database field, multiple, truncated, entries were created in the HandicapMaster database in error (Premier and Network editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90539) - Competitions; When undoing a closed competition that had online score entry enabled it was possible to re-enable online score entry without specifically setting the option in the competition configuration wizard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90540) - Calendar; When clicking a link to an opened competition, the correct competition was not always opened.
  • FIX (Ref. 90541) - Tee Sheet Bookings; When linking a new Tee Sheet to Competition Booking Templates, Unexpected Error 13 (Conversion from string '' to type 'Integer' is not valid) could occur if there were no existing templates.
  • FIX (Ref. 90542) - Online Score Entry; When importing scores from the ClubNet Phone Scoring App, scores would not be imported where holes being played were not the first holes on the scorecard (e.g. back-nine holes).

Update 9.3.40 - 5 May 2020 - Update Package 1140

  • NEW - Master Scoreboard; You may now create notices to your members onto the Master Scoreboard website through the HandicapMaster program, without logging into the Master Scoreboard Control Panel. A 'Master Scoreboard' section is added to the 'Players' place in HandicapMaster.
  • NEW - Reports; A new E-mail Summary report is added to display a count of e-mails sent by date.
  • NEW - Subscription option; In subscription templates a new 'Adjust First or Last Value' option to adjust payment values is added.
  • AMEND - Bookings and Start Sheets; References to 'competition' is removed from Bookings report and Start Sheet report where competition includes 'Tee Sheet' in its name.
  • AMEND - Bookings; When moving a player's booking and when the selected slot is for the same player display a suitable message.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Renamed 'Kilmacolm' as 'The Kilmacolm'.
  • AMEND - Import scores from Master Scoreboard; After importing scores the 'Time Score Entered' shown in Analyse Scores Entered list now reflects the time the score was entered through Master Scoreboard (not the time the score was imported).
  • AMEND - Import scores from Master Scoreboard; After importing scores, the Analyse Scores Entered list is displayed.
  • AMEND - Import scores from Master Scoreboard; When importing, any existing Start Sheet for the competition is no longer lost.
  • AMEND - Import scores from Master Scoreboard; When importing, sign-in before play option is disabled whilst importing scores, to avoid question whether player is signing-in for each card being imported.
  • AMEND - Subscriptions Option; Direct debit extract is now limited to subscription invoices.
  • AMEND - Subscriptions Option; Direct debit extract no longer includes past members.
  • AMEND - Subscriptions option; Improve messages when e-mailing reprinted invoices.
  • FIX (Ref. 90536) - Online Score Entry; In some situations, when importing scores from the ClubNet Phone Scoring App, only one player's score would be imported.
  • FIX (Ref. 90537) - Opened Competitions; In some situations, when configured to import scores from the ClubNet phone scoring app or Golf Genius phone scoring app, the option to enable scoring online was offered when opening or reconfiguring competitions, in error.

Update 9.3.39 - 26 March 2020 - Update Package 1139

  • NEW - Import scores from Master Scoreboard; You may now allow players to enter their competition scores (for singles competitions) through the Master Scoreboard website, avoiding the use of Touchscreens or other score entry kiosks.
  • NEW - Import scores from external system; In the Premier and Network editions, you may now choose to import scores entered into the ClubNet system into a competition opened in HandicapMaster.
  • FIX (Ref. 90535) - Publish to CDH and Golfnet: 'Node <response-body> missing from data received from CDH' could be reported when publishing or looking up a players' handicap if the ID was not located on the CDH or Golfnet server. (CONGU editions, Wales and Ireland only).

Update 9.3.38 - 18 March 2020 - Update Package 1138

  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Cancel removal of invalid CDH numbers from players when publishing, as this was deleting all England and Wales ID's due to a late amendment to the CDH service by Scottish Golf's developers just as the previous build was released (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).

Update 9.3.37 - 18 March 2020 - Update Package 1137

  • AMEND - Player Export; Added the name of the Subscription template assigned to the member or past member. (Subscriptions option).
  • AMEND - Removed reference to BookGolf365 booking service which is no longer available.
  • FIX (Ref. 90534) - Competition Bookings - Reserve List; The Booking Template option to use the Reserve List was ignored when creating the booking arrangements.

Update 9.3.36 - 11 March 2020 - Update Package 1136 - Interim Release

  • AMEND - Bookings; When viewing the booking sheet for a competition in HandicapMaster in 'list' view, you may now access a right-click context menu to achieve specific tasks.
  • AMEND - Bookings; When viewing the booking sheet for a competition in HandicapMaster, the number of players booked into the competition is now displayed in the heading above the sheet.
  • AMEND - Fixtures Report; When sending this report out by email, you may now save and edit default text for the body of the covering email.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Merley Park', 'Northern Junior Golf Tour', 'Northwest Manchester Golf Alliance' and 'UK Am Golf Tour'. Deleted existing entry for 'Isle of Wight Golf Alliance' and replace with two new entries.
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Accommodate a change in the error code being received from the CDH when a player is set to Pending status, to avoid unnecessary screen messages (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Avoid Unexpected Error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') when Scottish CDH service fails to respond with any 'Response-header' information in its response to HandicapMaster (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Facilities to access the Scottish CDH are re-enabled (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Slow down the sending records to the CDH to accommodate limitations of CDH server (i.e. send player's records one player at a time) (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Remote Requests; Added some alternative XML tags for telephone and e-mail address data to allow a specific 3rd party membership application to send this type of data using the alternative tags.
  • FIX (Ref. 90527) - Bookings; 'Booking Reference unknown' error would occur when moving a player to a new slot on the Booking Sheet through the HandicapMaster program.
  • FIX (Ref. 90528) - Bookings; When viewing the booking sheet for a competition in HandicapMaster in 'list' view, the view would switch to 'sheet' layout in error after refreshing the list or performing other actions.
  • FIX (Ref. 90529) - Find a Player on CDH; Scottish CDH changed the way it sends players' handicap details, when a request to look up players by name is sent. This response is no longer consistent with the previous CDH or any other Home Nation current CDH. This caused HandicapMaster to interpret a response listing a single player as an empty list, in error (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90530) - CONGU and Society Handicap Records; Entries for Away scores (Regular Stroke Play and Maximum Score formats) did not always show the player's gross score, when viewing the player's Handicap Record.
  • FIX (Ref. 90531) - Course Scorecards; In one rare case, Unexpected Error 13 ('Unable to cast object of type 'System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripSeparator' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem'') occurred when viewing a problem course scorecard being reported as 'Unknown Tees'.
  • FIX (Ref. 90532) - Publish to CDH; Incoming Regular Stroke-play or Maximum Score format away scores were treated as unsafe, in error, when the adjusted gross score reported was below 100 (CONGU editions, England, Wales and Ireland).
  • FIX (Ref. 90533) - Course Scorecards; When editing a Course Scorecard and the cursor was displayed in one of the Course Ratings boxes, if a Par or Stroke Index box on any hole was clicked with the mouse, the cursor returned to the Course Ratings box after the selected value was updated in error.

Update 9.3.35 - 19 February 2020 - Update Package 1135

  • FIX (Ref. 90526) - Publish to CDH; In rare cases, Unexpected error 5 ('Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed') occurred publishing to the CDH using build 9.3.34 (CONGU editions).

Update 9.3.34 - 18 February 2020 - Update Package 1134

  • NEW - Bookings; You may now elect to operate a Reserves List for a competition where the bookings sheet has become full, for members (only), Singles competitions. Players who add their name to the reserves list will automatically be promoted onto the booking sheet when a free slot become available. The player who has been on the reserves list for the longest time is considered first on the list.
  • AMEND - CDH (Scotland); Option to look up a player's record from the CDH is resumed, following the CDH outage in Scotland. 'Find a Player on CDH', 'Update Visitors from CDH' and visitor 'Look up Player Details' options are now operational again (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Leeds Castle' is added. 'Bolton Ladies Golf (Assn)' is renamed as 'Bolton Ladies Championship'. 'European Amateur Tour Golf' is renamed as 'Staysure Amateur Tour Golf'. 'Humberside Fire And Rescue Golf Society' is replaced with 'Firesport UK Golf Section'. 'Hartpury University' is renamed as 'Hartpury College'. 'Stocksbridge & District' is replaced with 'Stocksbridge'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Golf Dundee Club' is added. 'Fairmont St. Andrews', 'C.R.O.S.S. Ladies', 'Greater Easterhouse', 'Saxone' and 'Dalmunzie Rangers Amateurs' are deleted.
  • AMEND - Housekeeping; The time taken for the housekeeping of Voided transactions has been significantly reduced. (Subscriptions option).
  • AMEND - Options; If the option to 'Never Publish to CDH' is selected, HandicapMaster will now prompt to ask if this setting is to be applied to all users.
  • AMEND - Publish to BRS Online Tee Booking; After successfully sending membership data to the BRS server, a confirmation message is now displayed on screen.
  • FIX (Ref. 90523) - Error -2147221503 'Invalid use of Null (Query -420, Column 'TIE_NETT')' may have happened in very rare circumstances when viewing results of an historic team competition.
  • FIX (Ref. 90524) - Open Bookings; Where a visiting player had booked more than once into the same competition, all entries for the player were removed in error when cancelling one of the entries.
  • FIX (Ref. 90525) - Course Scorecards; It was not possible to enter the Course Rating of a course where the local regional settings use a comma as the decimal number separator.

Update 9.3.33 - 9 January 2020 - Update Package 1133

  • AMEND - England Golf Women's Medals Report; Winner report is extended to include Standard Scratch Score and Differentials values for the player's leading scores (CONGU editions, England only).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Northern Counties (Golf Union)' is added and 'Anderida Golfers' is renamed 'Ashdown Golfers'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Braes' is added.
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; Following the sudden and unannounced closure of the Scottish CDH by Scottish Golf Limited, facilities to access the Scottish CDH are disabled (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90520) - Competition Purse Historic Balance Report; Report could incorrectly report members' Historic Balance as zero in error when they had no purse transactions remaining in the database (Subscriptions option).
  • FIX (Ref. 90521) - Competition Purse Historic Balance Report; Report could incorrectly report members' Historic Balance where members most recent entries on their statement included multiple entries logged at the same time (Subscriptions option).
  • FIX (Ref. 90522) - Open Competition Bookings; Unexpected Error 6 ('Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow') could occur when viewing bookings where Visitors had booked into the competition via Master Scoreboard (Open Competition Bookings option only).

Update 9.3.32 - 13 December 2019 - Update Package 1132

  • AMEND - Player Entry Messages are now available in Society Network Cloud editions of HandicapMaster.
  • FIX - (Ref. 90518) - Letters; When creating letter text, a < character inserted on its own may be misinterpreted as the start of a field token and the letter may not have been generated.
  • FIX - (Ref. 90519) - Edit Member; When setting a Player's password on Master Scoreboard the message ' You do not have an ID and Passcode configured for connection to Master Scoreboard.' was displayed in error, preventing a password being set.

Update 9.3.31 - 11 December 2019 - Update Package 1131

  • NEW - It is now possible to make a balance adjustment for a past member's competition purse. (Subscriptions Option only).
  • AMEND - Closed Competitions report; This now includes the number of members and visitor in each competition for the selected date range. Note the time taken for this report to run has increased due to the extra data being processed to obtain the breakdown of member and visitors.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Egypt); Added 'Sokhna', 'Newgiza', 'The Cascades', 'Stella Di Marie Sokhna', 'Porto Marina', 'Steigenbeger Al Dau' and 'Stella Di Mare Sharm'
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Firesport UK', 'Sidcup Family Golf' and 'TopGolf Surrey'. Renamed 'West Midlands' as 'West Midlands & Widney Manor'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Renamed 'Royal Montrose' as 'Royal Montrose Mercantile'. Deleted 'Balfron Golf Society (Ladies)', 'Cowal', 'Gullane Ladies', 'Michelin' and 'Montrose Mercantile'.
  • AMEND - Player Import; When an invalid e-mail address is detected, you may continue the import but without the e-mail address being imported.
  • AMEND - Start sheets; When doing a random re-ordering of the start sheet for team competitions an option is added limit the re-ordering of players to swapping teams around. This option was already available for pairs competitions.
  • AMEND - Subscriptions option; The option to generate address labels from a distribution list is now included in the Subscriptions option as well as already being included in PREMIER and NETWORK editions. So, users of CLUB edition with the Subscription option may now generate address labels from distribution lists.
  • AMEND - The Scorecard and custom start sheet label designer window may now be resized to allow for larger label sizes, or score cards.
  • FIX (Ref. 90514) - Society Handicapping; Players' handicaps could reset to close to zero, in error, when full records from a CONGU handicapping edition were used and they contained 'Initial Handicap Cards' (Society editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90515) - Edit Member; The facility to set a member's Master Scoreboard password may have indicated that a password was invalid in error, and did not allow the password to be set. (Cloud and Hosted editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90516) - Accounting; Unexpected Error 5 'The specified field START_DATE could refer to more than one table...' occurred when exporting Subscriptions or Invoices with the option to limit the export to the current accounting year (Subscriptions option only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90517) - Start Sheet Labels; In a Texas Scramble, the wrong Strokes Received for a team could be printed to the label where a team of three was entered onto the start sheet with a gap in places 1, 2 or 3.

Update 9.3.30 - 5 November 2019 - Update Package 1130

  • AMEND - Allocate Handicap; Security is added when allocating a player's handicap following the recording of Initial Handicap Cards. Users now require Handicapping 'Update' access to complete this function (CONGU editions only).
  • AMEND - Bookings; FIX (Ref. 90502) is amended to pre-set the option according to the current settings for the competition (Premier and Network editions).
  • AMEND - Bookings; Society Network Cloud Edition may now link to external booking systems.
  • AMEND - Competition Configuration; The description of bookings settings for Multiple Tee ('Shotgun') starts is improved (Premier and Network editions).
  • AMEND - Corrected a typographical error on Order of Merit and Best of Series reports.
  • AMEND - Edit Member; It is no longer possible to enter future dates for a member's Date of Birth.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Mark Janes Golf Academy @ Tonbridge Golf Centre'. 'The Club at Meyrick Park' is renamed as 'Bournemouth & Meyrick Park'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Scotland's Rural College'. Deleted 'Letham Grange'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Wales); 'CORUS (Port Talbot)' is renamed as 'Tata'.
  • AMEND - Player Import; When importing and the option to 'Update existing membership records' is selected and if the import file contains player(s) without a handicap who are in the past members list also without a handicap they are now un-deleted and returned to the All members list.
  • AMEND - PlayerEntry; Now defaults to security protocol TLS V1.2 (where the Windows operating system supports this) when accessing the Internet.
  • AMEND - Support for magnetic swipe card readers is added to Society Network Cloud editions.
  • FIX (Ref. 90510) - Player Entry; When players were being identified at the terminal using a combination of 'PIN Number and Card Number' or 'PIN Number and CDH Number' players would be matched against their PIN number even when leading zeros in their PIN number were not input, in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90511) - Handicap Record; Unexpected Error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') occurred when attempting to undo the Year entry in the handicap record (Society Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90512) - Bookings; When amending booking arrangements for a Singles competition with a Multiple Tee ('Shotgun') start, the option to allow players to book others into the same playing group could not be configured (Premier and Network editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90513) - Three Player Waltz competitions; When the competition was played over a selection of holes, the 1-2-3 arrangement for scoring did not take account of the holes that were not in play.

Update 9.3.29 - 2 October 2019 - Update Package 1129

  • AMEND - Competition Reports; The ILGU Silver Spoon report is added to the 'Reports' Place (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Prevent Unexpected error 'HMControlsDLL Value cannot be null. Parameter name: text | Paste | Line: 28' which has happened on one occasion when copying a previous e-mail text.
  • AMEND - Subscriptions Option; When raising subscriptions on the anniversary of joining, it is now possible to go back up to 90 days, rather than the previous 60 day limit.
  • AMEND - Supplementary Scores; For clubs assigned to the 'Middle East' world region, CONGU Unified Handicapping System clause 21.4(c) is now applied. This means players with handicaps in the range 2.5 to 5.4 may now return Supplementary Scores (CONGU Editions only).
  • AMEND - ILGU Ladies Silver Spoon report; CONGU advise that the report is to include players with handicaps to a maximum of 54 (previous limit was 36), and also now includes 'maximum score' format competitions (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90497) - General Bookings; When placing a booking through the HandicapMaster administrator app and there was an overall maximum number of players that could be booked into a time slot (with multiple bookings per time slot), this overall limit was not taken into account correctly and the number of members or visitors that could be booked could be incorrectly restricted.
  • FIX (Ref. 90498) - Publish to CDH/Golfnet; When uploading away scores after an Open competition, the Competition Scratch Score may have been reported incorrectly through to the CDH/Golfnet where the player was a Visitor, there was separate Home and Away Competition Scratch Scores calculated for the competition and the player elected to play off an alternative choice of Tees in the competition (CONGU editions, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90499) - Competition Bookings; When administrating bookings through the HandicapMaster app for a competition configured for a 'Shotgun' start, it was not possible to amend the players in 'Player 1' column when viewing the booking sheet in 'Sheet' mode (Premier and Network editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90500) - Knockout Draws; Unexpected Error 5 ('SqlConnection/OleDbConnection does not support parallel transactions') may have occurred if the FINISH button was double-clicked.
  • FIX (Ref. 90501) - Competition templates; It was not possible when editing a 9-hole competition template and the competition format was changed to Maximum Score and you had a non-qualifying handicap allowance to select CONGU 9 Hole handicapping (CONGU Editions only)
  • FIX (Ref. 90502) - Bookings; It was not possible to select to allow players to book any number of partners into a singles competition when it was an Open Competition (Premier and Network editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90503) - Bookings; When the name of a course was changed, this was not reflected on the Master Scoreboard website competition booking pages (Premier and Network editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90504) - Amend Order of Merit Wizard; Unexpected Error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object.') may have occurred if after the FINISH button was clicked the CANCEL button was then clicked.
  • FIX (Ref. 90505) - Results Reports; After applying a competition, combining it with previous competitions for the purpose of creating a combined Competition Scratch Score, any Aggregated Round Results Report for the previous competition was not updated to reflect any change in the previously calculated CSS as a result of combining the competitions (CONGU Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90506) - Supplementary Scores; When viewing Supplementary Scores previously entered into the system, scorecards were displayed incomplete where one or more holes had been recorded as 'No Return' (CONGU Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90507) - Eclectics; The handicap used for Casual Cards was always zero, in error (EGA editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90508) - E-mail correspondence opt-in; Where the HandicapMaster user account is limited to only update membership for a single gender the E-mail correspondence opt-in facility ignored this limitation and amended both genders.
  • FIX (Ref. 90509) - Player Import; If the 'Electronic Communication Consent', 'Parental Consent' and 'Home/Away/Visitor' columns were not included in an import file then values for some members already in the database may have been incorrectly set to the wrong values.

Update 9.3.28 - 28 August 2019 - Update Package 1128

  • NEW - Bookings; You may now elect to allow players to enter team competitions and book any number of players into the same Tee Time as themselves when booking.
  • AMEND - Competitions; Improved wording of the 'How Players Compete' items in the Competition Template Wizard and also in the 'Format' description when viewing competition configuration details.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Renamed 'Cleeve Hill' as 'Cleeve Cloud'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses list; Improvement to keyboard type ahead.
  • AMEND - Match-Play Knock-out Results; When recoding the results of matches, results descriptions '19th Hole', '20th Hole', etc., are revised to '1st Extra Hole', '2nd Extra Hole', etc. to facilitate recording of results for matches played over rounds other than 18-holes in length.
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH/Golfnet; When receiving incoming away scores from CDH/Golfnet, scores are now accepted (as 'abandoned' competition) when it is reported that the Competition Scratch Score equals Standard Scratch Score and is 'Reductions Only', even when the third letter of the CONGU Identifier has not been reported as 'D - Abandoned Competition', at the request of the Council of National Golf Unions.
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH; With introduction of Maximum Score format competitions it is possible for some large values for some of the items in a handicap record. For example. Gross Score and other items. The CDH systems have limits on the maximum values that are acceptable. This amendment will reduce any values in the data sent to the CDH that exceed the maximum accepted by the CDH systems. This is to enable a player's record to be updated on the CDH, rather than being rejected by the CDH. The players handicap record in HandicapMaster will contain the un-amended values. (CONGU Editions, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland).
  • FIX (Ref. 90492) - Bookings; When reconfiguring booking arrangements and adding a tee time to the start or end of the existing set of tee times, the new time did not correctly take account of the chosen interval between times when the interval included half-minutes (Premier and Network editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90493) - Extra Day Scores; Unexpected Error 6 ('Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal') could occur when entering a score using tees where the Slope had not been configured on the course scorecard (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90494) - General Bookings; When recording Partners for a booking time when there was a single time with multiple bookings and there were more than 6 partners the input form was incorrectly displayed.
  • FIX (Ref. 90495) - Away Scores (Recorded) report; Unexpected error 91 (' Object reference not set to an instance of an object') may have occurred when running this report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90496) - Open a New Competition; When opening a new competition, based upon those competitions played in the last 12 months, references to previous booking schedules where not cleared correctly.

Update 9.3.27 - 31 July 2019 - Update Package 1127

  • AMEND - Competition Results Reports; When results are by division, the 'Twos' section now uses the same division name as in the main part of the results report instead of divisional numbers.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Aberdeenshire 5 Day Open'.
  • AMEND - Number of 'Good' Holes Played report; When a report is limited to only players with Handicaps above or below a chosen value, the subheading on the report now identifies this.
  • AMEND - World Handicap System; Add Handicaps used to R and A WHS Research data export option (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90484) - Results Reports notes; A number of symbols including the pound and euro were incorrectly displayed as HTML entity codes when the report was viewed in HandicapMaster or Master Scoreboard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90485) - CONGU Supplementary Scores; When a Supplementary Score that was pending (having been entered through Player Entry) was edited, the changes to the score were not reflected in the player's handicap record when the score was subsequently accepted (CONGU editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90486) - Number of 'Good' Holes Played report; Scores for competitions included in the report, but subsequently undone, were not always removed from the report when it was later updated.
  • FIX (Ref. 90487) - Number of 'Good' Holes Played report; In rare situations, details of where the good scores were returned could list the wrong competition names and dates.
  • FIX (Ref. 90488) - Best-of Series reports; In rare situations, details of where the scores were returned could list the wrong competition names and dates, or Unexpected error -2147221502 ('Invalid use of Null (Query -28639)') could occur.
  • FIX (Ref. 90489) - Order of Merit; Unexpected error 5 ('Concurrency violation: the DeleteCommand affected 0 of the expected 1 records') may have occurred in rare situations where two people were amending or updating an OOM at the same time.
  • FIX (Ref. 90490) - Competition Results; GROSS scores only. The splitting of ties where the count back failed to split a tie on the back 9 holes may have failed to correctly split on last six holes, three holes and final hole of the first nine holes in some cases.

Update 9.3.26 - 17 July 2019 - Update Package 1126

  • NEW - World Handicap System; Add R&A WHS Research data export option (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Bookings; You may now choose whether Tee Times are displayed on the Master Scoreboard website, when configuring a competition or bookings template where booking is into blocks of times and the competition is open to Members and Visitors to book (Premier and Network editions only).
  • AMEND - Competition Results Reports; When results are by division, the count of the number of cards in each division now uses the same division name as in the main part of the results report.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Renamed 'Manor House at Castle Combe' as 'Manor House', 'The Manor (Staffordshire)' as 'Manor (Staffordshire)' and 'The London' as 'London'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Donald Cameron League (The)' and 'New Cumnock'. Renamed 'Torvean' as 'Kings'. Deleted 'Inchmarlo' and 'Eastwood'.
  • AMEND - Order of Merit, Eclectic and Best-of Series; Blue, Red and Gold competition colours are added to competition lists, along with blue and red colouring of player's names, in Order of Merit, Eclectic and Best-of Series wizards.
  • AMEND - Player Entry; When the Administration Button Password is changed, the new password is now immediately effective, even where Player Entry is already running.
  • AMEND - Reports; The time taken to save a report in ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) format has been significantly reduced.
  • AMEND - The unit of measurement for the length of holes if displayed on the score card screen is now internationally aware and should display as 'Mtrs' in regions using metric measurement, except for 'GB' and 'IE' metric regions where 'Yrds' is retained.
  • FIX (Ref. 90473) - CONGU Handicapping; When competitions played on the same day where combined for the purpose of calculating a single Competition Scratch Score (CSS) calculation, and two or more of the competitions were played by the same gender but from different Tees, the wrong CSS result could be calculated (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90474) - Subscriptions Option; On the 'Subscriptions Full Details' report the 'First Payment Due:' date for Anniversary of Joining templates was incorrectly displayed.
  • FIX (Ref. 90475) - Publish to Master Scoreboard; In some situations, including when also using the Competition Bookings facility, publishing to Master Scoreboard could take longer than intended (especially 'Cloud' editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90476) - Eclectic Competitions; Unexpected Error 91 ('Object reference not set to an instance of an object') could occur when updating the list of included competitions if the 'OK' button was double-clicked.
  • FIX (Ref. 90477) - Reports; Unexpected Error 7 ('Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown') could have arisen when saving a report in ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) format.
  • FIX (Ref. 90478) - Eclectic Competitions; It was not possible to add Casual Cards for visitors despite visitors being included in the format of the eclectic.
  • FIX (Ref. 90479) - Order of Merit; It was not possible to add Other Points for visitors despite visitors being included in the format of the Order of Merit.
  • FIX (Ref. 90480) - Unexpected error 2714 ('There is already an object named 'XXXXXXXX' in the database') may have occurred in rare cases when using HandicapMaster Cloud or Hosted databases.
  • FIX (Ref. 90481) - Number of Good Holes Scored Reports; Where reports limited the players to be included by Age Group, Handicap, Visitor status or Past Member Status, subsequent changes in statuses of players were not reflected when updating or re-viewing reports.
  • FIX (Ref. 90482) - Membership Integration; Unexpected error 75 ('The process cannot access the file 'XXXXXXXX' because it is being used by another process.') may have occurred in rare cases when HandicapMaster attempts to process a membership Integration LoadCSV file.
  • FIX (Ref. 90483) - Unexpected Error 5 ('OleDbConnection does not support parallel transactions.') may have occurred when updating a Best Of Series report and if the 'FINISH' button was double-clicked.

Update 9.3.25 - 14 June 2019 - Update Package 1125 - Interim Release

(This update is available upon request)
  • FIX (Ref. 90470) - E-mail Rejection Report; Unexpected error 438 ('Public member 'reason' on type 'U6Kq7SsJDenAgWOYZ74' not found') could occur running this report when using the HandicapMaster E-mail service.
  • FIX (Ref. 90471) - Publish to Master Scoreboard; Data for 'Number of Good Holes Returned' reports was not being published to Master Scoreboard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90472) - 'Number of Good Holes Returned' reports; After reformatting an existing report, existing data from competitions previously included in the report was not reanalysed to match the new requirements of the report.

Update 9.3.24 - 10 June 2019 - Update Package 1124

  • AMEND - Cancelling opened competitions over 3 months old or undoing closed competitions over 6 months old; A second confirmation question is now displayed in these circumstances, to ensure the older competitions are intended to be cancelled or undone.
  • AMEND - ClubWebsite; You may now elect to configure more than one club email address to receive messages from website visitors using the club website 'Contact Us' form.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'On Course Foundation'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Wales); Added 'Glynneath'.
  • AMEND - Match-play Competitions; Description of a match result with a tied score is amended from 'All Square' to 'Tied', bringing this terminology in line with that used by the R&A in the Rules of Golf 2019.
  • AMEND - 'Number of Good Holes Played' Reports; The following changes have been made to how these reports are created, updated and viewed in HandicapMaster;
    • You are no longer limited to only 6 reports.
    • You may now update the competitions assigned to reports without reconfiguring the reports.
    • The time taken to create the report after amending the list of competitions for that report is significantly reduced (especially Hosted and Cloud editions).
    • You may now amend Notes or Master Scoreboard settings without re-processing scores.
    • You may now view the competitions used in a report, in its own report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90458) - In fifteen situations, the Yes/No screen prompt defaulted to 'yes' in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90459) - Start sheet labels; When using the standard label layout and if a start time had a blank Player A, then no label was generated for that time.
  • FIX (Ref. 90460) - Publish to CDH/Golfnet; In rare situations, HandicapMaster may try to publish Non-Qualifying (NQ) competition scores to the CDH/Golfnet from dates prior to the start of sending NQ scores, causing errors such as CDH/Golfnet 'Error 29; Invalid or missing Handicap Record SSS Value' (CONGU Editions, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland).
  • FIX (Ref. 90461) - Start Sheets; The option to clear an existing Start Sheet would not complete, preventing Start Sheets from being cleared.
  • FIX (Ref. 90462) - E-mail Rejection Report; Unexpected error 438 ('Public member 'ip_address' on type 'clsHM_SparkPost_Bounce' not found') could occur running this report when using the HandicapMaster E-mail service.
  • FIX (Ref. 90463) - Start Sheets; Unexpected Error 5 ('SqlConnection does not support parallel transactions') occurred if the SAVE button was clicked for a second time before the first save had completed.
  • FIX (Ref. 90464) - CONGU Handicapping; Processing of One Stroke Limit for handicap increases (Ireland) did not take into account a player's change of Home Club in the middle of a season, affecting handicap calculations (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90465) - Course Scorecard; When changing selected course between 9 and 18-hole courses on the Course Scorecard screen, the screen was not re-displayed correctly.
  • FIX (Ref. 90466) - Apply Scores; When closing an aggregated competition, the results reports window may not have displayed for a very long time if 'balanced divisions' was configured ('Cloud' editions primarily).
  • FIX (Ref. 90467) - Enter Score; When entering a scorecard into a stroke-play competition, various errors could occur if the enter or OK key was selected more than once in rapid succession when saving the scorecard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90468) - Multi-round Competitions; When the Form of Play is 'Maximum Score', the aggregated results were not calculated correctly.
  • FIX (Ref. 90469) - Competition Results; Where players had signed in, but not entered a score, they could be listed as winners of the 'Front Nine' and 'Back Nine' results, in error.

Update 9.3.23 - 16 May 2019 - Update Package 1123 - Interim Release

  • FIX (Ref. 90457) - Unexpected error 6 ('Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow') may have occurred when viewing the Analyse Scores list for an opened or closed competition and the competition fee purse is in use and the competition in question has fees. (Subscriptions Option only).

Update 9.3.22 - 15 May 2019 - Update Package 1122

  • NEW - Course Scorecards; You may now elect to use additional Tee Colours and/or create your own Tee Colours when entering a Course Scorecard. Tee Colours 'Gold', 'Silver', 'Bronze' and 'Navy' are added as options. Note: Before using any new Tee Colours, ensure all copies of HandicapMaster and Player Entry are updated in your local network, to avoid errors running HandicapMaster and Player Entry.
  • AMEND - Analyse Scores for opened and closed competitions will only display fees when players are signed in using Player Entry and fees are deducted from Competition Fee Purse (Subscriptions Option only).
  • AMEND - 'Competition' Handicap Status; Prompt to re-instate 'c' handicap status is extended to include players who had their 'c' status re-instatement deferred past the end of the previous year (CONGU editions only).
  • AMEND - CONGU Competition Scratch Score (CSS); Following clarification received from CONGU, calculation of Home and Away CSS's after an Open Competition is amended to treat a '+3 (Reductions Only)' calculation as 'higher' than a '+3' calculation for the purpose of applying CONGU Unified Handicapping System Appendix B Clause 3.3. That is, when the Home CSS calculation is '+3 RO' and the Away CSS is '+3', a single CSS will now be calculated instead of separate CSS's (CONGU Editions only).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Add 'Hartpury University' and correct CDH number for 'York Union of Golf Clubs'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Ireland); Rename 'St. Margarets' as 'St. Margaret's'.
  • AMEND - HandicapMaster E-mail Service; The E-mail rejections log report has been amended to use a newer interface to obtain the rejection data. The report data is not changed, and the performance of the report is improved.
  • AMEND - Improved layout of description column in 'Competition Purse Transactions in current Accounting year' and 'All Competition Purse Transactions' when a competition fee is deducted (Subscriptions Option only).
  • AMEND - Master Scoreboard; For organisations that are not managing members handicaps, such as county unions and golf tours, visitor playing records will now be published to Master Scoreboard.
  • AMEND - 'Number of Good Holes Scored' report; The time taken to calculate the results for a report is reduced.
  • AMEND - Summary of Fees for Closed Competitions report now correctly displays data when players are signed in using Player Entry and fees are deducted from Competition Fee Purse (Subscriptions Option only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90448) - Program Start-up; An extended delay could occur starting HandicapMaster for the first time after applying program update 9.3.21, or running Housekeeping (Cloud editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90449) - EGA Handicapping; The correct scores for handicapping are now calculated when playing 9-hole competitions off 'Scratch' handicap allowance (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90450) - EGA Handicapping; Handicapping allowance could incorrectly be set to '1/2 of Full Handicap' for nine-hole handicap qualifying competitions, causing incorrect handicap calculations. Handicapping allowance is now limited to 'EGA 9 Hole Handicaps' or 'Scratch' options only for handicap qualifying competitions (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90451) - Unexpected error 5 ('The ConnectionString property has not been initialized') could occur after a period of time running, but not using, HandicapMaster ('Cloud' and 'Hosted' editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90452) - Unexpected error 5 ('Column 'MAXIMUM_SCORE_TYPE' does not belong to table MyDataset.') occurred when trying to run Ladies medal report (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90453) - Publish to Golfnet; In some circumstances, HandicapMaster could fail to publish records to Golfnet due to sending records from prior to the selected 'Golfnet Start Dates', invoking an ERROR 18 refusal to accept the data by Golfnet (CONGU Editions, Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90454) - Player Entry; In some rare situations, competitions with restricted score entry/sign in to selected times only, would not show on Player Entry at all.
  • FIX (Ref. 90455) - Match-play Knock-out Draw; Unexpected error 5 (InvalidArgument=Value of '-1' is not valid for 'index') occurred when running a draw if a General Numerical Draw was undertaken with options 'A single round of matches only' and 'Limit number of matches to minimise or eliminate Byes' both selected.
  • FIX (Ref. 90456) - Competition Results; In some circumstances, players could be placed into the wrong divisions based upon the handicaps they held 12 months earlier, in error.

Update 9.3.21 - 16 April 2019 - Update Package 1121

  • NEW - Maximum Score Competitions; You may now elect to run 'Maximum Score' competitions where the maximum for each hole is configured to be six, seven, eight, nine or ten strokes 'over Par'.
  • NEW - Men's Medals (Scotland); Facility to calculate club winners of Scottish Golf's new Men's Medal Competition is added (CONGU Editions; Scotland only).
  • NEW - Player Entry; You may now use PrehKeyTech MCI30 and MC35 Keypads with Player Entry.
  • AMEND - Changing player to 'No Handicap'; The entries in distribution lists are now transferred to the new member record. Some distribution list entries may be deleted where the distribution lists contain the old member record are set to 'do not allow members without a handicap'.
  • AMEND - Changing player to 'No Handicap'; When a member is changed to 'No handicap' the invoices and payments are now transferred to the new member record (Subscriptions Option only).
  • AMEND - Changing player to 'No Handicap'; When the Competition purse is in use then purse transactions are now transferred to the new member record (Subscriptions Option only).
  • AMEND - Configure Competition; When the 'first-round' handicap date is changed, any scorecards already entered for the competition are recalculated automatically.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Add 'Oaksey Park' and 'O35 Tour'. Change 'Windmill Golf Acedemy' to 'Windmill Sporting Ltd'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Wales); Add 'Caernarfonshire And District (County Union)'. Delete 'St Andrews Major'.
  • AMEND - Housekeeping; When deleting competition and handicapping records, an explanation of which step is being performed is now shown on screen. The time taken to complete some steps is reduced.
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (All); The time taken to analyse data for the England Golf Women's Medals, Scottish Golf Women's Medals, Wales Golf Medals and ILGU Medals is reduced (CONGU Editions, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (All); When running the Medals reports, you will now be asked to select and confirm the qualifying competitions to be included in the analysis (CONGU Editions, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (England); Use of Net Differentials when multiple courses have been used is removed from the analysis of England Golf Women's Medals, as these no longer feature in the England Golf's competition regulations from 2019 (CONGU Editions, England only).
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (England, Wales and Ireland); Medal competitions played under format 'Maximum Score' may now be included in England Golf Women's Medals, Wales Golf Medals and ILGU Medals as club qualifiers (CONGU Editions, England, Wales and Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (Scotland); Score analysis and report are updated in line with Scottish Golf's Women's Medals competition regulations for 2019. 'Gold Division' is added and splitting of ties becomes the responsibility of the local Competition Committee (CONGU Editions, Scotland only).
  • AMEND - Ladies' Medals (Scotland, Wales and Ireland); HandicapMaster now recognises when more than one Tee selection has been used during one or more qualifying competitions and adjusts the results accordingly, when analysing scores for the Scottish Golf's Women's Medals, Wales Golf Medals and ILGU Medals (CONGU Editions, Scotland, Wales and Ireland only).
  • AMEND - Match Play Knockout Draw; When creating a draw with more than 3 rounds, you may now elect to the define the first round in the draw as Round 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 'Preliminary'.
  • AMEND - Match-play Knock-out draws; When adding teams to a Pairs draw and the AUTO FILL button is used, you may now import leading players from a competition that has been closed.
  • AMEND - Publish to Master Scoreboard; In rare cases when publishing to Master Scoreboard and the Windows decimal separator is set to a comma and the competition fee purse is in use an incorrect purse value may have been sent to Master Scoreboard resulting in an incorrect purse balance being displayed and also preventing some members being correctly listed on the handicap list page.
  • AMEND - Results Report Wizard; The Wizard now only displays 'Open Competition' options when the competition is open to visitors.
  • AMEND - Welcome screen; 'Welcome to HandicapMaster 2019' changes screen is now removed from program start-up.
  • FIX (Ref. 90439) - Subscriptions option; Unexpected error -2147221501 ('Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.') may have occurred in rare cases when running the Subscriptions Summary report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90440) - Eclectic Competitions; When configuring an Eclectic competition which allows Casual Cards to be recorded, the chosen tee colour(s) were not preserved and error 'HandicapMaster has been unable to locate the Par and Stroke Index details for this course' may have occurred when entering a casual scorecard.
  • FIX (Ref. 90441) - Number of Good Holes Scored report; In some cases, HandicapMaster would lock up and not complete when analysing data for this report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90442) - CONGU Competition Scratch Score; When two or more competitions were played on the same day, each of the same format and each from separate Tees over the same course, the option to combine the scores to create a 'Single CSS Calculation' was not shown, in error (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90443) - Subscriptions option; Unexpected error 6 ('Not a legal OleAut date') occurred when raising subscriptions by anniversary of joining and the joining day and today were the same day in the year.
  • FIX (Ref. 90444) - Eclectics; When an Eclectic was limited to Casual Score Cards, the Player Pre-selection option could not be cleared once set.
  • FIX (Ref. 90445) - Start Sheets; When booking into blocks (not tee times) using a two-tee start and the same tee number, tee times were shown incorrectly when the bookings were imported into the start sheet (Premier and Network Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90446) - In some cases a user custom column order in a list was reset to the default order.
  • FIX (Ref. 90447) - Start Sheets; When booking into blocks (not tee times) using a half-minute defined interval between tee times, and with one or more blocks marked as unavailable to book, players in subsequent blocks could be imported onto the start sheet into the wrong Tee Times (Premier and Network Editions only).

Update 9.3.20 - 19 March 2019 - Update Package 1120

  • FIX (Ref. 90438) - Program Start-up; Unexpected error 5('Incorrect syntax near 'INDEX') could occur on start-up after applying update 9.3.19 (Network and Cloud editions only).

Update 9.3.19 - 19 March 2019 - Update Package 1119

  • AMEND - Apply Scores; When you elect to close a future-dated competition, you will now be warned and asked whether it is OK to continue to close the future competition.
  • AMEND - ClubWebsites; You may now rotate images in the Picture Carousel 90 degrees clockwise.
  • AMEND - Competition Purse Transaction report; This report now includes details of the user who made the transaction.
  • AMEND - Competition Results; A summary 'Number of Cards Processed' note is added to aggregated Alternative Day competition results reports. A summary 'Number of Entrants' is added to aggregated Multiple-round competition results reports.
  • AMEND - Course Scorecards; When changing a Course Scorecard, players handicap allowances for scorecards previously entered into Opened Competitions are now recalculated to reflect the revised course scorecard details (Par's and Standard Scratch Score, etc).
  • AMEND - Golf Course (England); Added 'Bournemouth Festival of Golf', 'Herefordshire County Golf Committee', 'Humberside Fire And Rescue Golf Society', 'The Scoring Club', 'The Tillman Trophy' and 'York Union of Golf Clubs'. Renamed 'Abbey Hotel' as 'The Abbey Hotel', 'Addington' as 'The Addington', 'Alwoodley' as 'The Alwoodley', 'Bedford (The)' as 'The Bedford', 'Bournemouth & Meyrick Park' as 'The Club at Meyrick Park', 'Brow (The)' as 'The Brow', 'Burstead (The)' as 'The Burstead', 'Defence Academy' as 'The Defence Academy', 'Derbyshire & Cheshire Junior League' as 'Derbyshire & Cheshire Junior Golf', 'Gog Magog' as 'The Gog Magog', 'Hastings & St Leonard's' as 'Beauport Park', 'Intercollegiate Tour' as 'Intercollegiate Golf Tour', 'Isle of Wight' as 'Isle Of Wight (Union)', 'Kendleshire (The)' as 'The Kendleshire', 'Kidderminster' as 'The Kidderminster', 'Kilnwick Percy (KP)' as 'The KP Club', 'Leeds Golf Centre (Wike Ridge)' as 'Leeds Golf Centre', 'Lottbridge' as 'The Lottbridge', 'Mere' as 'The Mere', 'Nathum Cup' as 'The Nathum Cup', 'Old Nene' as 'The Old Nene', 'Pytchley Lodge' as 'The Pytchley Lodge', 'Shrigley Hall' as 'The Shrigley Hall', 'South Staffs' as 'The South Staffordshire', 'Staffordshire Veteran Ladies (Assn)' as 'Staffordshire Ladies Veteran Golf (Assn)', 'Three Locks' as 'The Three Locks', 'Warren (Essex)' as 'The Warren (Essex)', 'West Berkshire' as 'The West Berkshire', 'Wilmslow' as 'The Wilmslow', 'Wisley' as 'The Wisley', 'Worcestershire' as 'The Worcestershire', 'Wynyard' as 'The Wynyard'.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Portmann' and 'West Links Junior'. Renamed 'Grange & Dundee' as 'Grange & Broughty'. Deleted 'Broughty' and 'Viewfield'.
  • AMEND - ILGU Ladies Medal Report; ILGU has introduced changes from March 2019 to increase maximum eligible handicaps from 36 to 54 (CONGU editions, Ireland Only).
  • AMEND - Publish to CDH/Golfnet; In some cases, where a player had a 'No Score Recorded' score entered into a Qualifying Stableford competition after 1st January 2018, their Stableford scores from this date are no longer displayed in their handicap records on the CDH/Golfnet. HandicapMaster is amended to re-publish their records to the CDH once again. CONGU Editions (England and Ireland only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90430) - CONGU Handicap Records; In some circumstances, the home club of a player could revert to a previously used home club incorrectly when HandicapMaster is adding 'Handicap Brought Forward' entries to player's records at the beginning of the year (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90431) - Match-play Knock-out Draw; When creating a draw for the first time, any notes entered were not retained.
  • FIX (Ref. 90432) - Competition Results and Competition Winners reports; In one reported case, unexpected error -2147221503 ('Invalid use of Null (Query -30275, Column 'SCORE')') occurred viewing the results of a competition and also generating a competition winners report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90433) - Opened Competition; When opening a new competition or reconfiguring an already opened competition, the option to define which Pars and Stroke Indexes to use for scoring in a team competition could be clipped off screen when running HandicapMaster on a display set to a high DPI stetting.
  • FIX (Ref. 90434) - Configure Competition; It was possible to change a 9-hole competition to 18-holes whilst retaining 'CONGU 9-hole handicapping' allowance, in error, causing inappropriate handicap allowances to be calculated (CONGU Editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90435) - E-mail; Unexpected error -2147221503 ('Invalid use of Null (Query -13538, Column 'EMAIL_ADDR')') may have occurred in rare circumstances.
  • FIX (Ref. 90436) - Bookings; When option 'Only Members may place bookings (E.g. 'Members Invitational' or 'Semi-Open')' was selected in a Bookings template, this option was not activated when applying the Bookings Template to a competition.
  • FIX (Ref. 90437) - Configure Competition; Various unexpected errors could occur after changing a single-gender opened competition to mixed gender and there were no course scorecards entered for the gender being added into the configuration, for the chosen venue of the competition.

Update 9.3.18 - 27 February 2019 - Update Package 1118

  • AMEND - DQ Reasons; Description for DQ Rule 3.3b is amended to also cover errors recording scores on a score card.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Metro (Golf Centre)' and 'UK Golf Tour'. Renamed 'Woodbridge Park' as 'Brinkworth', 'AJGC&S'as 'Association of Jewish Golf Clubs And Societies', 'Birmingham & District 17-24' as 'Birmingham 17-24 Golf League', 'Bolton Ladies (Preston Scratch Trophy)' as 'Bolton Ladies Golf (Assn)', 'College Golf' as 'British Schools Golf (Assn)', 'GCMAEast Anglia Region' as 'GCMA East Anglia Region', 'Golf at The Laurels' as 'The Laurels' and 'South East Golf Tours' as 'SouthEast Golf Tours'. Deleted 'Brinkworth' (original entry).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Added 'Carnoustie Golf Links' and deleted 'Carnoustie Links Trust Tournament'.
  • AMEND - Player Entry; When configuring a Card Reader, header and trailer characters may now be set to Opening Brace ({) or Closing Brace (}) characters.
  • AMEND - Player Entry; When processing a card swiped through a Card Reader, any non-numeric characters received from the card will no longer be considered as part of that card's number.
  • FIX (Ref. 90423) - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 9 ('Index was outside the bounds of the array') may have occurred in some cases when applying scores for a competition with no scores.
  • FIX (Ref. 90424) - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 9 ('Value cannot be null') occurred when applying scores for a team competition, aggregated to a second round, but with no scores entered.
  • FIX (Ref. 90425) - Pairs Match-play Competitions; It was not possible to change the first player in a pairing without also changing their partner in the team too.
  • FIX (Ref. 90426) - 9-Hole Supplementary Scores; When using a 9-hole course to receive Supplementary Scores through Player Entry and the course had been set up as a 'back 9' course, Player Entry reported 'Unknown Par and Stroke Index details for the golf course' in error, preventing the Score being recorded (CONGU Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90427) - Configure Competition; It was possible to set first and second choice of Tee colours to be the same colour (thereby reducing the competition to a 'single Tee' competition) after one or more players had signed in or entered scores using the second choice of Tees, causing problems processing the scores for these players.
  • FIX (Ref. 90428) - Player Entry; In some cases, the Player Entry configuration option 'Add visitors to system from CDH when their National ID is entered' (England, Scotland and Wales) or 'Add visitors to system, using Golfnet when their Golfnet number is entered' (Ireland) was not displayed as being set.
  • FIX (Ref. 90429) - Publish to CDH; In some cases, the reminder to publish to CDH may not have been displayed when exiting HandicapMaster.

Update 9.3.17 - 5 February 2019 - Update Package 1117

  • AMEND - England Golf Ladies Medal Report; England Golf has introduced changes from January 2019 to increase eligible handicaps from 36 to 40 and to include Maximum Score format competitions (CONGU editions, England Only).
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Charnock Richard' is renamed 'Golf at The Laurels'.
  • AMEND - Integration with external Membership Systems; The LoadCSV interface now applies validation to the supplied e-mail address. If the e-mail address fails the validation the existing e-mail address for the member is not amended and a warning message is written to the LoadCSV log file.
  • AMEND - Results Reports; Improve readability of the count back text by adding hyphen before 'Front 9' if displayed.
  • FIX (Ref. 90421) - Restoring Backup; When restoring a backup file, error 'The compressed file has not been recognised as a HandicapMaster compressed file' occurred if the backup had been performed on a system where the Windows locale adds a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark to files.
  • FIX (Ref. 90422) - Team Competitions; After undoing a team competition, the order of players on scorecards may have been changed, potentially affecting the scores calculated.

Update 9.3.16 - 29 January 2019 - Update Package 1116 - Interim Release

  • AMEND - E-mail; Further improvements to the e-mail message data format to cater for a wider range of attachment file types to further reduce the possibility of some recipient e-mail systems incorrectly identifying e-mails sent as SPAM.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Prairie (Sports Village)' is added.
  • AMEND - Publishing to Master Scoreboard; Extra Day Score points values are now published to Master Scoreboard. (EGA Editions only).
  • AMEND - Sending e-mail 'New Message' window; It is now possible to right click on the subject and body items on the window to cut, copy, paste, clear items and select all text.
  • FIX (Ref. 90414) - Golf Courses; You may have got the following error when entering a Course Rating value for 9 holes 'Error: Invalid value for Front 9-Hole Course Rating entered'.
  • FIX (Ref. 90415) - E-mail; 'Charset' was missing from multipart/alternative message headers.
  • FIX (Ref. 90416) - E-mail; 'Content-Disposition' was missing from multipart/mixed message headers.
  • FIX (Ref. 90417) - Start Sheets; When importing bookings configured as blocks of times (and using two tees) onto a Start Sheet, the wrong Tees and Tee Times could be created on the Start Sheet when additional blocks had been previously added to the Bookings configuration after its initial creation.
  • FIX (Ref. 90418) - EGA Handicapping; After reconfiguring an opened competition that already had scores entered, the wrong Adjusted Stableford Score for players could be calculated when the competition was subsequently closed. This could have resulted in the wrong handicap adjustments for some players (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90419) - EGA Handicapping; Manual adjustments to player's handicaps at score entry time were not being retained when processing the scores for handicapping calculations (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90420) - Integration; When using option 'Report Account ID's', unexpected error 6 ('Overflow') could occur if a player's Account ID represented a number greater than 1.7 x 10e308.

Update 9.3.15 - 15 January 2019 - Update Package 1115

  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'The Wirral Golf Academy' is added.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Brunston Castle' is deleted.
  • AMEND - Open a New Competition; When using the option to open new competitions based upon competitions played in the last 12 months, any competition notes previously added to the closed competitions are no longer carried forward to the competitions being created.
  • FIX (Ref. 90405) - Analyse Scores Entered; When viewing a scorecard from a closed competition, the player's Handicap could be shown as 0, in error (EGA Editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90406) - Enter Scores; Adjusting players' handicaps at score entry time was not working, with adjustments not always being taken through to the calculation of competition results.
  • FIX (Ref. 90407) - HandicapMaster Alerts; Unexpected error 13 ('Conversion from string '…' to type 'Date' is not valid') could occur when HandicapMaster is operated on more than one computer, and the HandicapMaster email service was configured for use.
  • FIX (Ref. 90408) - Find a Player on CDH/Golfnet; When looking up a player's details on the CDH or Golfnet, characters '??' could be displayed in place of accented characters, in error (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90409) - Annual Review adjustments; When applying an Annual Review adjustment to a player that reduced their handicap from Category 2 or higher into Category 1, the User was not being prompted to enter a CONGU password, in error (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90410) - Re-configure Competition; When reconfiguring an opened stroke-play competition and changing the course used for the competition, existing scores already entered into the competition were not recalculated to match the new course selection.
  • FIX (Ref. 90411) - Housekeeping; When running the Housekeeping wizard, the focus was sometimes set to the 'Help' button when the wizard was first shown, in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90412) - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 9 ('Index was outside the bounds of the array') could occur closing a competition when scorecards had been entered against a second choice of Tee's, but the second choice has subsequently been removed from the competition configuration.
  • FIX (Ref. 90413) - Start Sheets; When importing players from Bookings onto a Start Sheet, and the booking arrangements were for players to book into 'blocks' of times, the wrong number of games could be temporarily displayed in the Start Sheet configuration, prior to the games being correctly displayed on the grid.

Update 9.3.14 - 11 January 2019 - Update Package 1114 - Interim Release

  • FIX (Ref. 90401) - Various; The number of Stableford Points scored by players each hole was incorrectly recorded, affecting Eclectic results (when by Stableford Points), Order of Merit results (when by Stableford Points), 'Best Scores Analysis' report and 'Scorecards from a Competition' report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90402) - Unexpected error 5 ('Not a legal OleAut date') may have occurred in rare circumstances when closing HandicapMaster and where multiple windows regions were used between different computers.
  • FIX (Ref. 90403) - Subscriptions option; when raising invoices (not subscriptions) the payment record for the invoice was not created, preventing payments from being recorded.
  • FIX (Ref. 90404) - Apply Scores; Unexpected error -2147221503 ('Invalid use of Null (Query -29124, Column 'HANDICAP_AT_START')) could occur closing a competition where one or more players listed on a Start Sheet and with no score entered were selected for conversion to 'No Score Recorded'.

Update 9.3.13 - 8 January 2019 - Update Package 1113

  • NEW - A new accounting report 'Competition Purse Historic Balance for Past Members' is added.
  • NEW - An alert to periodically review the E-mail Rejections Log report is added (only where the HandicapMaster E-mail service is being used).
  • AMEND - Accounting report 'Competition Purse Historic Balance' is renamed 'Competition Purse Historic Balance for Members'.
  • AMEND - 'E-mail Bounce Log' report renamed to 'E-mail Rejections Log' report.
  • AMEND - Improve formatting of e-mails when sent as HTML format.
  • AMEND - Supplementary Scores; Players suspended from entering competitions are now allowed to enter Supplementary Scores through Player Entry (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90389) - E-mail; In rare cases this error may happened at the end of sending e-mails. The e-mails will have been sent. Unexpected error 5 (' Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.')
  • FIX (Ref. 90390) - Subscriptions Option; Unexpected error 5 ('Column 'INV_TEMPL_NAME' does not belong to table MyDataset') occurred when exporting invoices.
  • FIX (Ref. 90391) - After re-ordering columns in various lists, and accessing an item in the list, the order of columns could be switched, in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90392) - Supplementary Scores; Unexpected error -2147221501 ('Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record') occurred when undoing a Supplementary Score.
  • FIX (Ref. 90393) - CONGU 9-Hole Handicapping; It was not possible to set a competition that used format 'Maximum Score' (5 over Par) as a qualifier, in error (CONGU editions only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90394) - Configure Competitions; Unexpected errors (various) occurred immediately after changing a competition from a choice of two tees to one tee only (per gender), or when closing a competition after making such a change, when one or more scores or sign-in's had already used the second choice of Tees.
  • FIX (Ref. 90395) - Publishing to Master Scoreboard; Unexpected error 6 ('Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.') occurred when publishing to Master Scoreboard and there was only a single closed competition in the database.
  • FIX (Ref. 90396) - Start Sheets; In some circumstances, after adding a player to a Start Sheet, players could be listed on the Start Sheet with their handicaps from 12 months earlier, in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90397) - Team Competitions; Unexpected error -2147221501 ('Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted') occurred when viewing results of a Team competition where no scorecards had been entered.
  • FIX (Ref. 90398) - Configure Competition; when re-configuring an opened 9-hole competition and the 'Amend' button was selected to change the configuration, the 9-hole competition would be set to 'Handicap Qualifier' by default, in error (CONGU editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90399) - Saving Reports; Unexpected error 5 ('The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters') may have occurred when saving a report.
  • FIX (Ref. 90400) - 9-Hole Competitions; After reconfiguring a 9-hole competition that was using an 18-hole course scorecard, players would be asked to enter 18-hole scores, in error.

Update 9.3.12 - 20 December 2018 - Update Package 1112

  • FIX (Ref. 90388) - Unexpected error 5 ('OleDbConnection does not support parallel transactions') occurred when selecting an auto update distribution list as recipient for an e-mail.

Update 9.3.11 - 20 December 2018 - Update Package 1111

  • NEW - Apply Scores; You may now close competitions that do not have any scorecards entered (e.g. Abandoned competitions, etc.).
  • AMEND - Address Labels; The surname is no longer displayed as upper case.
  • AMEND - E-mail; It is no longer possible to send a message without any message text, this is to reduce the possibility of e-mails been seen as SPAM.
  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Ardencote Golf'.
  • AMEMD - Golf Courses (Scotland); Deleted 'Amisfield Park', 'Burnfield', 'Carrick Knowe', 'New Cumnock' and 'Skeabost'.
  • AMEND - Undo Competition; The time taken to undo a past stroke-play competition is reduced.
  • DELETE - Housekeeping; The Custom option to delete 'Hole-by-Hole' scores is removed.
  • FIX (Ref. 90383) - Publish to Master Scoreboard; Unexpected error 5 ('Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'RV.EVENT_ID IN () AND RV.RESULTS_TYPE <> 0 AND RV.OID = 0' happened when publishing to Master Scoreboard when the HandicapMaster database was blank after initial installation.
  • FIX (Ref. 90384) - Open a New Competition; When using the option to open one or more competitions using competitions played in the last 12 months, competitions with a 'Use First Round Handicaps' option originally selected would not have a suitable 'First Round Date' set when opening the new competition.
  • FIX (Ref. 90385) - Configure Competition; when re-configuring an opened 9-hole competition and the 'Amend' button was selected to change the configuration, the 9-hole competition would be adjusted to use 'CONGU 9-Hole Handicapping' allowances by default, in error (CONGU editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90386) - Subscriptions Option; Raise Subscriptions Wizard - Unexpected error 6 ('Not a legal OleAut date.') may have occurred when raising subscriptions and one of the selected members should have subscriptions raised on the basis of Anniversary of Joining date, but another option was selected.
  • FIX (Ref. 90387) - Player Entry; When the Settings Profile in use only offered Sign-in (or only offered Score Entry) and selection was from a list of names, and with one competition opened that had option 'Restrict Score Entry/Sign-in to players listed on a Start Sheet' selected, and no players had been added to a Start Sheet, then Player Entry would enter into a loop continually repeating the same message on screen.

Interim Update 9.3.10 - 13 December 2018

  • AMEND - Improve wording in prompt to limit address labels to members without an e-mail address when printing Address labels from a Distribution List.
  • FIX (Ref. 90382) - Competition Results; Additional Handicap strokes in mixed Tee competitions were not being applied to the competition result scores.

Interim Update 9.3.9 - 11 December 2018

  • AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Renamed 'Dinsdale Spa' as 'Dinsdale'.
  • FIX (Ref. 90380) - Competition Results (Gross Scores); When re-configuring an opened competition and the form of play was changed to Stableford or Par, the Gross Scores report would show scores as strokes rather points or holes up/down even if setting 'Use strokes taken for gross results in Stableford and Par competitions' was not selected, in error.
  • FIX (Ref. 90381) - Competition Results; Where there were insufficient players (with scores other than 'No Return' or 'Disqualified') to fill the Overall Winners section, one or more players may have been missed from the results report in some circumstances.

Interim Update 9.3.8 - 8 December 2018

  • AMEND - Enter Scores; Where a Stableford or Par/Bogey competition is played as a handicap qualifier and played off less than full handicap, the players score is now converted to their score off reduced handicap as soon as a scorecard is saved. Consequently, the competition leader board now displays the scores for competition purposes rather than the scores for handicapping purposes (CONGU editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90376) - Upgrade to HandicapMaster Version 9; When upgrading from version 8 to version 9 of HandicapMaster, Unexpected error 5 ('Column 'USE_JOINED_DATE' does not belong to table MyDataset.') occurred.
  • FIX (Ref. 90377) - Enter Scores; Unexpected error 9 ('Index was outside the bounds of the array') occurred when saving a scorecard for a competition played over less than 9 holes.
  • FIX (Ref. 90378) - 'Maximum Score' competitions; Where a Maximum Score format competition was marked as a qualifier and played off less than full handicap, the competition would be identified as needing to be played off full handicap whilst scoring, in error (CONGU editions).
  • FIX (Ref. 90379) - Competition Results; Where a Stableford or Par/Bogey competition was played as a handicap qualifier and played off less than full handicap, the competition results were reported using scores based upon full handicap, in error (CONGU editions).

Update 9.3.7 - 6 December 2018 - Update Package 1107

  • FIX (Ref. 90373) - Publish to CDH; CDH error 31 ('Invalid or missing Handicap Record Gross Score Value') or CDH error 33 ('Invalid or missing Handicap Record Nett Score Value') could occur publishing to the CDH (CONGU editions, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, only).
  • FIX (Ref. 90374) - Subscriptions option; When you tried to raise invoices the wrong wizard was started.
  • FIX (Ref. 90375) - Publish to Master Scoreboard; Unexpected error -2147221501 ('Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted') occurred in rare situations when publishing competition results where all players were entered as 'No Score Recorded' in a competition.

Update 9.3.6 - 4 December 2018 - Update Package 1106

  • FIX - Cloud Editions; Correct configuration error for #CLOUD11 server users

Update 9.3.5 - 4 December 2018 - Update Package 1105

First release of version 9.3. For details of changes made to version 9.3 when in development, please see the Version 9.3 Beta Change Log.