What's New in Home or Away

Version 9.1 © 1996-2010 CFB Software
Last Updated 16 Jun 2010

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A summary of changes to Home or Away since version 6.0:

Windows 7 Support

Home or Away is supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.  The following features depend on which version of Windows you are running on.

Windows 7:
Windows Vista and Windows 7:

and, if your computer system has sufficient capabilities:

Windows XP:

The standard Tahoma 8pt font is used.


Menus

Three different visual menu styles can be chosen to match your version of Windows and other Microsoft applications.

Look for Options in the LP Recorder Help Index to find examples of the appearance of each style. The default style used is Flat.


Menu Reorganisation

The Details menu has been renamed to Data; Teams, Locations and Times are all accessed from one menu item and there is a new Modify menu with an additional entry:

v6 - v8 Menu v9 Menu
Details > Data >
Details > Name Data > Schedule Name
Details > Teams Data > Teams, Locations and Times
Details > Locations
Details > Times
Schedule > Modify Modify > Schedule
Modify > Teams, Locations and Times


Teams, Locations and Times

Add / Change / Delete

Click on Data > Teams, Locations and Times to display one convenient window with three separately sizeable sections. Each section contains a list of teams, locations or times. The lists are no longer restricted to row-by-row editing. They can be edited in the same way that you can edit a text file using Windows Notepad:

When you delete a team any corresponding entries in the Team Locations list is automatically deleted. Changing the position of a team in the list does not affect the Team Locations list but it will change the team matchups in the schedule.

When you add or delete a time, the Dates / Times calendar and schedule are automatically updated as well. Changing the position of a time in the list does not affect the calendar but it may change the times of games in an existing schedule depending on which Time option was used when the schedule was generated.

Modify

Click on Modify > Teams, Locations and Times when you want to rename teams or locations or substitute times after generating a schedule without altering any other aspect of the schedule. The new names and times are substituted wherever they occur.

Dates / Times Windows

The Dates / Times and Playing Days windows are combined into one convenient window with three separately sizeable sections.  


Schedule Generation

Schedule Analysis

Enhanced Filters

The enhanced Filter function lets you quickly check just those games for any combination of the following:

This is useful for answering questions like:

Games without dates (bye games for example) can optionally be suppressed.

The resulting partial schedule can be viewed on the screen, printed or exported to a file.
 

Schedule Overview

The Schedule Overview is a convenient single screen showing all of the following information:

The overview is automatically updated whenever changes which affect it are made. The overview can be printed; or saved as a rich text format (RTF) word processor file or a text file.


Miscellaneous