Your results are now official a week after the event

Hi everyone,

Results on Target Score are worked out from your event's data every time someone opens them. That's what lets a score correction show up straight away. It also had a downside. A change made long after an event could quietly change its results. For example, renaming a division, deleting a category, or editing an old aggregate. A shooter could drop out of an aggregate they won two seasons ago, and nobody would notice.

From now on, finished events are official. Once results are official, they stay exactly as they were published until you decide to change them.

There is nothing new to learn and no extra step in the usual case. This post explains how it works, and what to do on the rare occasion you need to correct an old result.

1. When results become official

An event's results become official automatically, once both of these are true:

• the event has been over for 7 days, and
• no score has changed for 7 days.

The second rule matters if you type in or import results late. An event whose scores you're still entering waits until you've finished.

If you'd like to close an event out sooner, open its results page while signed in as an organiser and click Make official now.

An Official badge appears next to the results heading, so everyone can see the results are final.

2. What official means

Everything that decides who placed where is kept exactly as it was:

• the scores and totals,
• every aggregate and the matches and shooters in it,
• each shooter's division, classification, categories, age category, gender and country,
• the order and names of the result tables.

So changes made afterwards no longer reach an official event's results:

• In your club settings: renaming, reordering or deleting divisions, classifications, participant categories, disciplines or age categories.
• In the event itself: editing an aggregate, an entry, a match or a score.

A few things are not about placings, so they keep updating:

• Shooter names. A corrected spelling shows on old results too.
• Profile links.
• Shot plots and each shooter's privacy choices. If a shooter hides their shot data, it's hidden on official results as well.

3. Correcting official results

Sometimes an old result really is wrong: a score typed in the wrong box, or an aggregate missing a match. You fix it the same way as always. Nothing is locked.

1. Make the correction where you normally would, in Enter Scores, Aggregates or the participant's entry. On an official event, Enter Scores reminds you that your changes go public when you republish.
2. Open the event's results page while signed in. A line tells you that some event data has changed since the results were published.
3. Click Review & republish. You'll see exactly which placings would change, in which aggregate and table: who moves up or down, who joins and who drops out.
4. Click Republish when it looks right. The results update for everyone.

If nothing would change, you won't see anything at all.

The review is also a safety net. If a change to your club settings would affect an old event, it shows up here before it can reach your shooters.

4. Deleting club settings no longer changes history

The same idea applies to your club's lists. When you delete a division, classification, participant category, discipline or age category that entries, teams or club records still use, it is retired instead of removed:

• It disappears from your club settings, entry forms and pickers, so nobody can choose it again.
• The entries, results and records that already use it keep showing it.
• If you add the same name again, the old one comes back, together with the entries that still hold it.

Anything nothing uses is removed for good, as before. Deleting a discipline that's in use retires its divisions and age categories along with it.

5. Renaming a division no longer breaks your aggregates

Aggregates used to remember divisions and classifications by their name. Renaming "Open" to "Senior Open" left every aggregate that listed "Open" matching nobody, and its shooters disappeared from it.

Aggregates now remember the division itself, so a rename carries straight through. Aggregates saved before this change still work as they did.

Tip: before renaming a division or classification mid-season, open and save the aggregates of your current events once. That moves them to the new way of remembering.

Your past events

Events that have already finished become official over the next few days, exactly as their results show today. Nothing about them changes.

If you spot an older event that doesn't look right, correct it and republish it as described above. That includes a shooter who dropped out of an aggregate after a division was renamed.

Leagues are one event over a whole season, so a league's rounds stay live until the season ends and its scores have been quiet for a week.

What to do now

1. Nothing is required. Your events become official on their own.
2. When you correct an old result, remember to Review & republish from the event's results page.
3. Tell your shooters: share this post, or the short section below.

For your shooters

• A week after an event, its results become official. That's the Official badge next to the results.
• Official results don't change because of later edits to the event or the club's settings. If the organiser corrects something, the results update when they republish.
• Your name, profile link and shot-data privacy choices still apply to old results.

Questions?

If an official result doesn't look right, or you'd like help correcting one, email us at support@targetscore.com.

Thanks, and good shooting!

Avtar