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A Q U I L O - S
Software for
Student Riding Competitions |
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AquiloS faciliates many of the office tasks during a student riding
competition: It maintains the data of riders and teams, generates
drawing lots, starting lists and differences for each round. Final
results can be calculated for different competition types and
displayed in various ways. Many of the rules
for CHIU/SRNC, WUEC and German CHUs are supported.
Given an arbitraty number of teams the program generates an "empty" competition with typical settings for all rounds. These round settings may be adapted to the organisers needs before the round is started. Using Drag&Drop riders can be assigend to their horses easily. During a round all affected differences are automatically updated whenever a new result is entered.
All output is generated as HTML and automatically displayed in
your favorite webbrowser. The HTML file can be used for printing
or can directly be published on the internet.
AquiloS was created during student riding competitions between 1997 and 2005 by Andreas Steidle (student riding groups Zürich & Konstanz). Since 2018 it is maintained and improved by Philipp Tegtmeyer (student riders Aachen).
philipp.tegtemeyer_at_alumni.fh-aachen.de
andreas_at_equinis.com
Requirements
- PC/Laptop with Windows 8 or later - anything manufactured after ~2012.
As Java program Aquilo should also run on Mac. However, the program and the documention are better adapted to Windows. -
Aquilo is a Java program and needs the Java Rumtine Environment (JRE) on your computer.
Please install it from www.java.com (~250MB).The JRE might already be installed on your computer for other Java programs and you can use that installation. Under Windows go to 'Settings' / 'Apps & features', search for "Java" and see if a version 8 (jre1.8.0) or later is available.
Java is developed by a company called Oracle. So if a download comes from their server this should be fine. You can ignore any warnings that your browser does not support Java plugins.
- Download the progam itsself aquilo-0.99.11.zip (418 KB) and extract it on your computer.
To assure compliance with future AIEC and DAR rules the operation is limited by date. Since v0.98 the software should automatically check on startup if a new version is available and offer you to update. The 0.99.11 version is limited to 31 Dec 2022.
Documentation
AquiloHelp.htm contains installation instructions and program documentation. It is also included in the Aquilo file you can download above.Aquilo Output Samples
Look at examples of HTML output files form SRNC Bern 2001 (after 2nd round DR/SJ):- TeamsAndRiders.html
- RoundDR1Lots.html / RoundDR1byStartNo.html / RoundDR1byHorseNo.html / RoundDR1byDifference.html
- RoundDR2Lots.html
- RoundSJ1Lots.html / RoundSJ2byDifference.html
- RankingIndividualDressage.html
- RankingIndividualShowjumping.html
- RankingOverview.html / RankingOverviewFinal.html
- TeamResultDetails.html / TeamResultDetailsFinal.html
- See how the data of a competition is stored in a .chu file (XML here as .txt)
- Result in simple machine readable format: Results of SRNC Bern 2001.txt
Excel Sheets for adding Dressage and Showjumping Protocols
Also they have not been severely tested you might find these files useful. Please check all formulas before you use them.All sheets have gray areas which are write protected by default, so you can't by mistake change any formulas. If you disable write protection for the sheet you can easily adopt it to another test. The results of the sheets can usually be entered directly into Aquilo.
- CalcDressageProtocols.zip. A series of Excel sheets for adding up the movements of AIEC team and individual tests. They are also very useful as a template for any other dressage test.
- CalcShowjumpingProtocols.zip. AIEC showjumping protocols as Excel sheet, one rider per column, all side by side.