Your first session, A to Z

Only once, at installation

1. Install FINISH, open it, HelpLicence… → Request a licence… → Install the .lic file. Step 0
2. Transponders: Excel A number, B usual code, C owner, D position (0), E 2nd code → History › Transponders › Import from Excel…. Step 1
3. Athletes: Last name, First name, Date of birth, Gender, Transponder, colours, Min / Max lap → Athletes › Import athletes… → Preview › Match › Import. Step 2
4. Decoder: SessionTiming mode (decoder)… → device, address, port → Decoder ON → Track and loops…: STA line (+ intermediates) → a chip over each loop. Step 3
5. Lapping: SettingsLapping → Enable lapping, 4 s, Individual, min / max. Step 5
6. TABLEAU: install on the screen computer, start it (it finds FINISH), “Lapping” view (Lapping (athlete), Lapping, last 10), F11. Step 6

At every training session

1. Switch on the decoder, then open FINISH; at startup, SessionSession configuration…: Training, free session ticked → Confirm.
2. Load the list: History › Athletes → select → Create an Excel session… → Save and load into the session… (or FileOpen a session… → last time's workbook). Step 4
3. Check the status bar: “Decoder: Connected”. Switches Decoder ON and Passings ON.
4. Switch on the screen and TABLEAU: “Connected to …”.
5. Athletes skate: training starts at the first passing. Off-track break: Passings OFF, then ON.
6. End: nothing to do. After 20 minutes without a passing, the training closes and stays in History › Laps.

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