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Generate a Winners Voice Script
STEP 1: View Your CompetitionsFrom your OpenWater Dashboard, find and click the Competitions tab on the left side navigation barSTEP 2: Manage Your CompetitionAfter clicking on ...
Delete an Entry
This will show you how to delete an entry from your program. Note: There are two ways to do this - either by going into the admin view of the entry, or by deleting in bulk ...
Test Public Portal as a Judge
Before this step, make sure you have:Completed a few test entriesAdded yourself as a judgeAssigned yourself those test entries to judgeSTEP 2: Click My Judging AssignmentsSTEP 3...
Viewing Categories and Adding Subcategories
STEP 1: Go to CompetitionsFrom Dashboard click on Competitions in the left-hand menu.STEP 2: Open Settings for the target programClick Settings next to the program you want to s...
How to Mark Entry Materials as Received
One you receive all required materials from the applicant, you want to mark his submission as "Materials Received" to have this question closed for them and for you. Below are t...
Scoring Sheets and Wall Sheets
If you combine online and offline judging you are able to download and print out scoring sheets to pass out to your judges, and wall sheets to put up to identify where judging i...
Allow an Entrant to Enter More Data
This will show you how to allow an entrant to add or edit the information on their entry.STEP 1: Click the active competition you are interested inFrom Dashboard click the targe...
View Fee Details for a Paid Entry
If your program has fees, there will be times that you will want to see which fees were triggered for a particular entry. This is most useful in cases where an entrant says they...
Adding or Editing Submission Fees
A submission fee is what is charged to the entrant when they complete their entry. Most AAF clubs will set fees for Single Entries, Campaign Entries, for Members and Non-Members...
Managing Coupons
You can use the coupon feature to create coupon codes for your entrants and create discounts and promotional pricing. An example of this would be creating a coupon code to distr...
Bulk Assign Entries to Judges, or Judge Teams
You can assign entries in bulk to a judge or judge team. This will save you a lot of time if you have a large number of entries ready for judging.Important note for District-lev...
Approve or Disapprove an Entry
This will show you how to approve or disapprove an entry if you have enabled "Require all Entries to be approved..." under "Advanced' in the "Round Settings" drop-downSTEP 1: Vi...
Add and Remove Judges
Judges need to be added to a round in order to be assigned submissions and start their judging. This will show you how to add and remove judges from your competition as needed.S...
FAQ: Forwarding Silver and Gold Winners
Forwarding is the step that involves moving an entry and all its uploaded content to the next tier of the competition. Once a local club has done their judging, winners will be ...
My entries are all in! Now what?
Getting the entries in is the hard part, so congratulations on completing that step! You're probably now wondering what the next steps are for your competition configuration. Fr...
Set Landing Page Content
STEP 1: Click Manage next to the active program you are interested inStarting from your dashboard, in the Active Programs box click Manage for the target program.STEP 2: Open th...
Create Your Own Entries Report
If you need something more than the reports shown under Entries >> Reports, this is how to create your own custom one.STEP 1: Access your reportsFrom your OpenWater Dashbo...
Set Up a Confirmation Email
It is possible to send an email to the entrant when their entry has been completed successfully. It is also possible to include other individuals on the same email. In this arti...
Finalize and Complete Entrant Checkout as Admin
Finalize an entrant's shopping cart from the admin portal to mark In-Cart entries as Complete.This can be done with or without payment.STEP 1: Click Manage on the competition yo...
Mark silver entries as paid
Unlike the fee paid when the entrant submitted their entry, forwarding fees are not paid within the OpenWater system. The forwarding fee feature is simply for tracking and repor...