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Work with meet files

Lane4 HQ uses the files meet software already exchanges. Open Meets and choose Import meet file. Pick the file that matches what the host sent and where you are in the season: an event file before entries, an entries file when you are sending a lineup, a results file after the meet.
Import meet file dialog listing EV3, HY3, CL2, SD3, HYV, XLS, and ZIP.

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Supported interchange

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Before importing

  1. Confirm that the file is for the same meet and team workflow you expect.
  2. Keep the original download until the import is reviewed.
  3. Select the file from the meet import flow and address any reported unmatched records.

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Verify course and deadline

For an event file or an entries file, the import review shows the host’s meet course and entry deadline. Confirm both before completing the import. A results file you add to a meet already in Lane4 does not ask for that deadline, and it does not change the meet name, dates, or events you already built. On a CL2 file the meet course is the single letter at the end of the meet line (Y yards, S short-course meters, L long course). Words in the facility name are not a course. Each swimmer’s entry time keeps its own course letter, so a yards seed stays yards even when you are checking a different meet line. On an HY3 file the age-up date is separate from the meet start. Lane4 keeps that date and uses it when it writes the file back out. A CL2 “individual info” line after a swimmer’s first entry carries a USA Swimming id and a preferred first name when Team Manager exported them. On a CL2 results file, prelim, swim-off, and finals times stay on the swimmer line when a later split line repeats one of them. Hy-Tek course codes can describe an entry-time policy, rather than the physical pool. For example, Y, YO, YSL, and YLS tell Team Manager how to choose or convert a swimmer’s entry time. They do not, by themselves, identify whether the meet is swum in SCY, SCM, or LCM. Set the course to the actual competition pool in the review when needed.
Multi-course policies such as YLS and YSL prioritize qualifying times across multiple courses. Lane4 HQ currently supports a single competition course for meet events; verify the host’s entry rules and qualifying standards before submitting entries for a multi-course-cut meet.
The host entry deadline must be a real deadline supplied by the host. Do not assume that a same-day date is correct. Confirm it with the meet announcement or the host before importing an event file, an entries file, or a results file that should create a new meet.

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Add results to a meet you already have

After the meet, import the results file and choose the meet those times belong to. Select Add results. Lane4 keeps the name, dates, and events you already built. Each time lands on the event with the same number. A letter after the number stays with that event, such as 42A. If that number is already a different event on your meet, Lane4 skips those times and says so. If the number is not on the meet yet, Lane4 adds that event from the file. When a swimmer on your roster has no entry in that event, Lane4 creates one from the result. An entry that is already there stays as you saved it. Only the time is stored. This is how a meet that was swum somewhere else comes in from a results file alone. A relay result needs all four racing legs. If a racing leg is missing, that relay is not imported. If that relay letter already has all four swimmers, the time is saved on that lineup and the lineup is left as it is. A letter with only some of the four is skipped. An alternate Lane4 cannot match is left off. The four racing legs still count. Choose Create a new meet only when the results file should start a meet that is not in Lane4 yet. That path still asks for the host entry deadline.

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Entries packs vs event files

CL2, HY3, and SD3 entries files only list events that already have at least one swimmer or relay team. Empty events and relays with no teams will not appear. Prefer uploading the host EV3 or HYV event file together with the entries pack (or inside the same ZIP) when you need the full schedule. Lane4 HQ prefers EV3/HYV when both are present and does not invent missing events from an entries-only file.

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Exporting entries

Export HY3 or CL2 when the host uses Meet Manager, or SDIF when that is the requested interchange. Review your entries and relays before sending the export to the host. The Export action is on the meet page.
Export action on the East Valley Invitational meet page.
An export is for your team’s entries. Lane4 HQ does not collect or merge other clubs’ entry packs.