Nathan,

Let me be the first to congratulate you on this new feature for v5.24 and also start a thread on what may end up being a lot of additional requests for external data.

The first request is for race fractions. The race comments form allows for the adding of the fractions and the FV supports retrieving this data.

Thanks,

Scott

I am happy to hear about the external data feature. I know a few here were interested in that.

Thanks for adding this one Nathan:

ppTripNoteS -- gets the chart caller's trip note for the past perf.

I was looking for something like that for one of my templates, now its there!

Thanks Again

ZAFONIC

Fellow ES Users,
I don't know if anyone else has run across this yet but, I just wanted to inject something about entering number figures in the comment form.

If you decide you want FV to do calculations with numbers entered in the comments form, you may have some problems getting the calculations to work properly. The comments form input cells appear to be formatted for text data. Therefore numbers are fine if just viewed in FV. Maybe your own custom power fig from another program etc. I tried to use the numbers manually entered in the comment form to perform calculations in other column expressions and had various errors. In fact, I had the program crash a couple of times and decided not to try to do calculations with the manual input numbers from the comment form.

You are probably better off using the external data feature as described by Nathan with this latest version.

Just thought I would pass that on..

BTW, Nathan thanks for putting this feature in, you must have been reading my mind. I knew we could input info in the race comments and bring them up in FV but, now I can see them indivudually for each horse... THANKS!

John
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This message has been edited. Last edited by: EQUIPACE,

In regards to getting external numbers into FV thru Horse Comments, I finally found that this function gets the job done.

CInt($hrMyCommentS)

Select value type as "number" and you're good to go.

W

Upon further review I found that the "CDbl" function works better for me because it will work with fractions rather than just whole numbers. CDbl forces "double precision" arithmetic. Also "CSng" is available which does single precision math.

Thus: CDbl($hrMyCommentS)

W

CJ's Pace Figure Program.

It looks like we may be able to import CJ's PaceFigures into Equisim real soon ! I use these programs together already , so I am looking forward to the possibilities !!!

http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=187368#post187368

ZAFONIC

Zafonic,

Thanks for pointing this out. Have been following your comments on PA's board regarding CJ's figs. Could be interesting

Scott

Zafonic: It looks as though we are using close to the same approach with PF and ES + XL.

Freddy

Freddy,

Great stuff !!! Real easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff !!

ZAFONIC

quote:

Originally posted by Win:
In regards to getting external numbers into FV thru Horse Comments, I finally found that this function gets the job done.

CInt($hrMyCommentS)

Select value type as "number" and you're good to go.

W
AND Upon further review I found that the "CDbl" function works better for me because it will work with fractions rather than just whole numbers. CDbl forces "double precision" arithmetic. Also "CSng" is available which does single precision math.

Thus: CDbl($hrMyCommentS)

W

Win,
Been away from here for a couple of weeks...
You just made my day!!!

Thanks A Ton!

John
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