Change of event settings

[dcurrie]

Is the QR code tied to a specific instance of an event? I.e. if I delete and recreate an event with the same name, will the QR code be broken? Also, can an event have different score settings to those included in the event name?

Long story short: I've printed the maps with the QR code on and then realised the score settings don't match those also printed on the map. Am I just going to have to break the QR code?

[MichaelRaz]

You may have already gotten an answer for this. As far as I know (and tested), if after you delete an event and then create it with the exact same name, the QR code will work. However, given your situation with the incorrect scoring, I can't see a solution (other than reprinting the maps or some other manual change.  Using the MaprRun6 console, the scoring is taken from the name and "locked" when setting up the event so if you change it in the name, the QR code will not match.  With MapRun7 and the new console, you can enter the course without the type of course/score type and enter them in the setup options - but this changes the event name, hence the QR code.  If you include the parameters in the name then MapRun7 console will take these and lock them in the setup options.

Hopefully someone has some other idea I have not thought of.  Things get a bit more complicated as now the consoles provide two QR codes - one for MapRun6 and 7 and one to force users to Maprun7.

[Peter Effeney]

David

Sorry - I somehow overlooked your question.

Unfortunately, with MapRun6 QRcodes (MapRunLink), if you re-publish the event, the QR code will be invalid as the code embedded in the QRcode includes reference to the RouteGadget Id... which changes when you re-publish an event.

If you are using MapRun version 7, there is a new QRcode, which links to the event in MapRun version 7 (or asks the user to install MapRun version 7). In designing this new code, we avoided the previous 'problem' and made it dependent ONLY upon the event name. So if you don't change the event name, then the MapRun 7 QRcode will still work (and any results that may have been pre-existing will be linked to the new event).

Unfortunately, with printed maps, all I can think of is to put a cross through the QR code and ask people to load the event via the "Select Event" or "Events Near Me" path. (if that is feasible with the type of event you are running)

Peter

[MichaelRaz]

David, Peter
Apologize for my incorrect statement on the QR code being the same after deleting and re-creating an event with the same name - I should have known better as I have since gone back and checked other information.  I actually tested it just before posting and I either screwed up my test or, because I created, deleted and re-created in a short period of time maybe the RG ID was the same as no other events were created during the short time period, the QR Code was identical.

[Peter Effeney]

Michael,

No problems. Thanks for investigating, doing a test, and responding to David.

I think your test was correct... and it's a case I have overlooked. That is, if your event is the most recently created and you quickly delete it and replace it, it will be allocated the same RG ID, and so the MapRunLink QRCode will work!

But in most cases it won't.

Anyway in the "longer-term" when using MapRun version 7 this won't be an issue.

Thanks again.

Peter

[dcurrie]

My turn to apologise - the event was the following day and I'd failed to set the option to alert me to responses after that.

In the end I did just delete and recreate the event. Other than the three people who had managed to already download the original event and ended up in their own private set of results (changing the scoring system of course meant changing the event name), I'm not sure anyone even noticed! Those new to MapRun scanned the code to download the app and then everyone just used "Events near me" after that.

Glad to hear that MapRun 7 has an answer to this and sounds like another reason to make sure the events have unique names!

Regards
David