HandicapMaster Software Preview - Change Log

Update 9.3.5 - 4 December 2018 - Update Package 1105

• AMEND - Countback Scores report; For short-course competitions, unused columns are no longer included in the report.
• AMEND - Countback Scores report; Titling reduced to avoid scaling to small font for long-named competitions.
• AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); 'Ladies Panmure, Barry' deleted.
• AMEND - Golf Courses (England); 'Durham County Junior Golfing Society' renamed as 'Durham (County Union) Juniors'.
• AMEND - Updater; Correct spelling error in screen message relating to TLS security.
• FIX - Countback Scores report; Unexpected error 5 ('No value given for one or more required parameters') occurred running the report for an Alternative Day competition.

Update 9.3.4 - 27 November 2018 - Update Package 1104

• NEW - Countback Scores report; A new report is added detailing the values calculated that would be used for any card matching (countback) required to split ties.
• AMEND - Competition Results report; The 'Countback' column is amended to show a brief description of the card-matching to resolve a tie between a player's score and the score for the player ranked immediately below them in the results.
• AMEND - Competition Results; The calculations used to split ties in competitions using 'matching scorecards' ('Countback') are amended in line with the changes to the recommendations made by the R&A and USGA in their Rules of Golf 2019, Committee Procedures, publication.
• AMEND - Eclectics; The wizard to create or amend an Eclectic competition now details how ties in results are split by using card matching calculations.
• AMEND - Golf Courses (Scotland); Renamed 'Murcar' as 'Murcar Links'.
• FIX - Address Labels; Unexpected error 5 (The multi-part identifier 'CLUB_CONTACT_DETIALS.OID' could not be bound.) will occur when trying to create address labels from a Club distribution list. (Premier and Network editions only).
• FIX - Handicap Record; Notes appended to Handicap Record entries were missing from EGA edition Handicap Record sheet reports (EGA Editions only).

Update 9.3.3 - 20 November 2018 - Update Package 1103

• NEW - A new report 'E-mail Bounce Log' is added for users of the HandicapMaster e-mail service. This will report any bounces that have been reported to the e-mail service.
• NEW - Edit Member; Option to add, edit and delete players' National ID's is added to the Society-Network edition.
• NEW - Player Entry; Option to print scorecards or labels as players sign-in is added to the Society-Network edition.
• AMEND - Golf Courses (England); Added 'Cranfield'. Renamed 'Gainsborough' as 'Thonock Park' and 'Worldham Park' as ' Worldham'.
• AMEND - Membership Reports; Titles of some membership reports are amended to follow a more consistent naming format.
• AMEND - Publish to CDH; Where a player's Handicap Record includes a Medal score with a Stableford Adjustment value below -45 (the lowest value accepted by England Golf's CDH service), a Stableford Adjustment of zero will now be sent to the CDH to avoid the player's record being rejected (CONGU Editions; England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland only).
• AMEND - Scorecards from a Competition Report; For team competitions, players are now listed in the same order within each team as displayed on Competition Results reports.
• FIX - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 5 ('Cannot insert the value NULL into column NO_RETURN_GROSS', Query 558) could occur after a competition had been undone and Apply Scores run again.
• FIX - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 5 ('Cannot insert the value NULL into column NO_RETURN_GROSS', Query 558) occurred when closing a competition and players listed on a Start Sheet without a score returned were selected to be included as 'No Return' in the competition results.
• FIX - Competition Templates; The wrong number of Divisions configured could be reported on the summary page of the Competition Template Wizard (Society Editions only).
• FIX - Competition Templates; When configuring the presentation of results for a competition to have the competitors split into divisions, HandicapMaster could incorrectly report 'The Maximum Handicap in Division 3 must be equal to, or lower than, Maximum Handicap in Division 4', even when configured correctly (Society Editions only)
• FIX - Eclectics; The number of rounds included for each player in an eclectic where players are added to the eclectic round-by-round (players have not signed up in advance and the eclectic does not include all players from competitions) could be wrongly reported.
• FIX - Open a New Competition; When using the option to open one or more competitions using competitions played in the last 12 months, sometimes rounds making up an aggregated competition could have their suggested dates switched in order.
• FIX - Scorecards from a Competition Report; For Foursomes, Greensomes and Texas Scramble competitions, some player's names were omitted from the individual team pages in the report.

Update 9.3.2 - 12 November 2018 - Update Package 1102

• NEW - Configure Opened Competition; When you see a warning that there are differences between the competition and the Template originally used to open the competition, you may now click this warning to be shown a list of where those differences lie.
• NEW - Membership Reports; A new report of Member's Ages, by player order, is added.
• FIX - Apply Scores; Unexpected error 5 ('Cannot insert the value NULL into column NO_RETURN_GROSS') occurred when applying scores for a competition previously closed using HandicapMaster 2018 and re-opened again.
• FIX - Competition Templates; Unexpected error 5 ('No value given for one or more required parameters' or 'Invalid column name COMP_ID') occurred when attempting to delete a competition template.
• FIX - Match-play Knock-out Draw; After running a draw for a Pairs Knock-out, the competition was subsequently identified as a Singles competition in error.

Update 9.3.1 - 6 November 2018 - Update Package 1101

• First release of 2019 preview software