====== ZRound race manager ======

===== Starting ZRound =====

ZRound setup installs shortcuts on Windows ZRound program group and your desktop. You can create/edit shortcuts to add these extra settings.

^Parameter ^Features |
|-practice|**Autostart application**. You can add a shorcut with the -practice parameter to your login startup profile in order to automatically start ZRound whent the system boots up. \\ \\ **Party races**. You don't need to register racers and results are not saved to the championship manager. Just enjoy a run with the racer's registered on the practice session.|
|-debug|It adds extra info to the log console. Only needed if the support team ask you to do it in order to capture extra details to investigate issues.|

When application is started, an information box shows the boot-up progress information

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===== Main window =====
Main look like this at startup.
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There are several section to work with options, races, data, etc. 

As you can have several copies installed and/or use different databases, at startup, you can see the database and settings paths used on the console 

===== 1. Tool bar =====
Here you will find these buttons to work with ZRound
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^Icon ^Function |
|{{:manuals:zround:2.1.new.png?24|}}|Clear race and racers information. It is a simple way to "reset" application to start from scratch witout restart the application|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.2.open.png?24|}}|Open a race configuration file with racers to be registered. You don't need to use this type of files as //championship manager// will do it for you. However, you could be use it for special purposes or custom races where you want to setup runs manually.|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.3.save.png?24|}}|Save the current race settings and racers registered to a race configuration file you could use later to start or recover information. If race is started from //championship manager// you will save the results to the race database.|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.4.pilotos.png?24|}}|Open the [[zround:racers database]]|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.5.tools.png?24|}}|Open ZRound [[zround:application settings]]|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.6.monitor.png?24|}}|Show/Hide [[zround:secondary window]]|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.7.video.png?24|}}|Show/Hide compact [[zround:scoreboard]] used for video recording|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.9.print.png?24|}}|Print out results|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.10.mute.png?24|}}|Mute/Unmute application|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.11.leetop3.png?24|}}|Read out the first three racers results during the race|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.12.leeposiciones.png?24|}}|Read out all the racers results during the race|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.13.leetiempo.png?24|}}|Read out the race time during the race|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.14.entreno.png?24|}}|Start practice time|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.15.carrera.png?24|}}|Start race time|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.16.verlog.png?24|}}|Show/Hide bottom panel with console and laps/times info panels|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.17.verparams.png?24|}}|Show/Hide race info panel|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.18.vervueltas.png?24|}}|Show/Hide laps/times info panel|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.19.versesiones.png?24|}}|Show/Hide racers sessions panel|
|{{:manuals:zround:2.20.info.png?24|}}|Show Application [[zround#info / about|Info]] and extra debug settings. You can generate a .zip archive with details about installation and runtime information. It helps if you are in troubles and need helpdesk support|

At right there is a status section

^Section ^Function |
|{{:manuals:zround:2.21.status.png?100|}}|[[:LapCounters|lap counter]] state|

==== 1.1 Application settings ====

Visit [[zround:application settings]]
===== 2. Race info =====
Race info panel shows information about the run

^Section ^Info |
|{{ :manuals:zround:3.1-raceinfo.png?300 |}}|Race name - Run (heat/main) - Round \\ Racer in first position \\ Best lap owner. //You can remove the best lap with the "X" button at left//|
|{{ :manuals:zround:3.layout.png?150 |}} | \\ \\ Track layout. You can edit the layout properties by clicking on it|
|{{ :manuals:zround:3.2-clock.png?300 |}}|Cars in track count, race time and lap count is shown at right. \\ :!: If you click on the clock panel, it will switch to count/countdown mode|

===== 3. Race Settings =====

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Take a look to [[manuals:keyconcepts|Key concepts]]

==== 3.1 Race mode ====

^Setting ^Function |
|Qualifying|Qualify mode. \\ **Laps**: Max. number of laps. Tie break by less total time \\ **Best time**: Best lap time. See //Best lap Qualifying options//|
|Start|Start mode: \\ **Staggered**: racers have their own clock. It starts on the first detection \\ **Le Mans**: All racers have the same clock. Extra settings are shown for start mode fine tunning|
|Initialize after first finishing line pass|Clock starts counting when the first car is detected (not when the countdown stops)|
|Count first detection|If enabled, first detection will count as lap 1. Otherwise, lapcount will start on 0|

Best lap Qualifying options
^Option^Description^
|Laps|Number of best laps to compute the "best lap" time. For example, you can use the 2 best lap times to be considered in order to compute the best racer|
|Consecutive|If laps is greather than 1, you can define if the n-best laps must be consecutives|
|Algorithm|You can choose if you want compute sum or average in order to show the "best lap time"|

==== 3.2 Duration ====

^Setting ^Function |
|Time|Race duration expressed in time units (hour,minuts, seconds)|
|Laps|Race duration expressed in number of laps to be completted). There are fine tuning options for lap duration mode|
|Complete all laps|When duration is "Laps", this options controls whether racer must complete all laps or the run stops when the first racer complete the lap count|

==== 3.3 Start/Finish settings ====

^Settings ^Function |
|Countdown time|Time to wait for the race to be started. \\ Example: 10 -> (10, 9, 8, ... 1, go) |
|Speaker|Countdown will be read out|
|Call to start|If //Speaker// is enabled, seconds before start to begin read out \\ Example: 3 ( . . . . 3 2 1 go)|
|Random call to start|Even choosing a //call to start// number of seconds, you could want to do it randomly. If enabled, call to start will be random within the //call to start// number of seconds.|
|Time beteween cars|Pause time between racers stat on //staggered// start mode|
|Min. lap time|Lap times under this value will be ignored. A special sound can be configured to distinguish this event and it will be dumped to the log console|
|Time to finish|Extra time given to racers to complete their last lap once race duration is over|
===== 4. Racers =====
List of registered racers. Available actions on the registered racers view:

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^Function ^Description |
|Column order|You can change the columns order by drag and drop|
|Column width|You can change the column width by dragging the header margin as you do in a spreadsheet|
|List sort|You can set the sort criteria by clicking the column header you want|
|Racers options|Open the context menu (right click) to open the [[zround:RacerRegistration|racer's registration options]] \\ {{:manuals:zround:5.1.raceroptions.png?150|}} |

===== 5. Log Console =====
Console shows events fired by the application and lapcounters. It will dump configuration changes, start/stop race events, lapcounter events (connect, disconnect, lap detection, etc.)

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The context menu (right click) offers these options:

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^Option ^Description |
|View event for this car|Enabled when a car event is selected, open a pop-up window with that car events filtered|
|Copy|Copy the log content to the windows clipboard|
|Save as...|Save the log content to a text file|
===== Info / About =====

Info button display version information and CopyRight. 

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There are two actions available

  * **//Extra debug// Checkbox**. It activates the extra debug information messages on ZRound Console. It only affects the current session, it's cleared if you restart ZRound unless you use the [[zround#starting zround|-debug]] command line setting

  * **//Helpdesk report// button**. It ask you to save a report (.zip file) with system/zround/logs/database information. It can be claimed from helpdesk support if you aks for help to zround support team.