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A bit of a preamble:
I consider this modelling export to be an interim solution (i.e. better than nothing) while I work on the next version of RDSS which will have a much more robust and elegant modeller, wager tracker, slice-it-and-dice-it-any-way data tracking solution. And thus, I was hoping to not spent too, too much time on this. Also, this output, while it does provide results and mutuels if you are connected to the RDSS toteboard module, is not really intended as a Wager Decision Form - just factor tracker. Though with the raw data, those who know how could do anything they wish, and the rest of us can simply cut and paste.
That said, I agree money columns should be formatted $000.00, rank columns should be centered, all velocites should have 1 decimal, etc. My 'quick and dirty' solution means I can't apply these formats on an automated basis, but when you cut and paste from the output file to your master spreadsheet, that target sheet could of course have all such formatting, colour, whatever.
Charlie, what re-arrangements of data columns would you suggest?
John, every line in the Analysis screens gets exported. If you have 5 lines (including Winner, Place and Show horses) they are all exported. Just copy the Winner's line into a master spreadsheet for your Win Model, by track (and by whatever fine-grained organization you further require: e.g. one tab per distance/surface, group distances together, etc).
If any Excel experts can take the layout as supplied (or as amended before the update is released) and add some formatting to a master template, which formatting is applied to rows of data copied from the RDSS output file, please feel free to post or send to me.
BTW, I am making the output both in Excel 2003 (XLS) and Comma Separated Value (CSV) format. If you don't use Excel, you can likely import CSV to any software. There's a CSV sample file for the first WO race above.
Cheers,
Ted
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