Course dialog - Advanced
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This is a tab in the Course Dialog, controlling settings for a given course.

The left hand side of the dialog window has the settings for course type, start/finish, overprint, control descriptions, and estimated load.

Discipline

When you created the Condes event file, you selected an event discipline.  When you create a new course, the Discipline setting will automatically be set to the event discipline.  You can override this by selecting a different discipline here.  Refer to Event Disciplines to see the characteristics of each discipline.

Course type

The type of the course:


Length

This the the length that appears for example in the length field of the control description header.

The length can be calculated automatically, or it can be entered manually.  This is controlled via the

Use calculated length check box. 

Check this box to automatically calculate the course length using the controls' co-ordinates.  The course length is calculated along the course leg line.

Calculate along "route choice" check box. 

Check this box to calculate the course length along the "route choice line" - as required for MTBO courses. 

See also: How to calculate course lengths.


Climb (Optional)

The text to appear in the course climb field of the control description header.

Auto-calculate the climb

When checking this box, Condes calculates the climb for the course using the climb values that you have entered for each course leg. See How to calculate course climb for details


Rogaine

A Rogaine course is essentially Score O course.  To support Rogaine conventions, there are two additional Rogaine related settings for Score O courses

This course has all controls  When this option is checked, Condes automatically adds all controls to the course. If you create a new control, it will be automatically added to this course

Use Rogaine points convention   When this option is checked, the points value for each control overrides the configured points value for the controls, and instead uses the Rogaine convention, where the points value is equal to the control code rounded down to the nearest multiple of 10.


Control Descriptions

Use this setting to control whether the descriptions for this course appear as symbolic or textual. 
The setting applies for

See also: How to configure if Control Descriptions are symbolic or textual.

Normal course
A "Normal course" is a regular orienteering course with controls numbered from number 1 upwards.
Score-O course
The course consists of a number of controls which can be taken in random order and which each gives a number of points.  The course is drawn without connecting lines between controls, and with the number of points for the control next to the circle.  The number of points is assigned to each control in the control's dialog under "Status and Additional text".  Please also see Rogaine course.
String course, no leg lines
In the terrain, the course follows linear features and is marked with streamers.  Controls are placed on the marked route.  On the map, the course is drawn as an  orange line indicating the marked route from start to finish.  Controls are marked with circles as usual.  The length of the course is calculated along the marked line.
String course, leg lines
In the terrain, the course follows linear features and is marked with streamers. Controls are not necessarily placed on the line, but on adjacent features. The leg lines between controls are shown, and the length is calculated along the leg lines similarly as a "normal course".
Trail-O course
The control descriptions for Trail O courses displays "A", "A-B", "A-C", "A-D", "A-E", or "A-F" in column B instead of the control code.  The text indicates the number of markers placed in the terrain for this control.
Trail-O course
The control descriptions for Trail O courses displays "A", "A-B", "A-C", "A-D", "A-E", or "A-F" in column B instead of the control code.  The text indicates the number of markers placed in the terrain for this control.