Starting a new season

The suite is built for one event per website. A new edition of the same race reuses the same site — you clear the data and start again.

Back up your database first. Maintenance deletes data and there is no undo.

1. Make sure last year is safe

• Every finished track is archived — racetrack → Archive

• Every archive is unlinked (Track = Unlinked archive)

If an archive is still linked to a track, the Maintenance screen will warn you. Do not ignore it: a linked archive can still be changed by what happens next.

2. Clear the data

raceevent → Maintenance. Tick what you want to clear, press Execute.

Clear in this order — the screen enforces it anyway:

checkpoint times  →  results  →  racers  →  categories  →  checkpoints  →  tracks

Tracks are locked until everything else is empty. That is deliberate: a track cannot be removed while times, competitors or results still point at it.

3. Set up the new edition

• Update the event name and date — raceevent → Event configuration

• Recreate or reuse the tracks and checkpoints

• Use a new archive SEF URL with the year in it — otherwise this year's archive collides with last year's

• Open the registration window again, if you use it

4. Do not forget

• New checkpoint passwords (if you did not regenerate them after the last race)

• New price tiers — the old dates are in the past, so the last tier would apply to everyone