PCM Season Planer (2009)
Version 1.6

CONTENTS
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I.   Summary
II.  New Features
III. Requirements
IV.  Installation and Uninstallation
V.   Quick Start
VI.  Advances Functions
VII. Status and open points


I. SUMMARY
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The PCM Season Planer helps you to plan the races where your team is participating. This version allows you to define at which races your team should participate (ONLY Conti races) and which cyclists should ride the races.
PCM Season Planer is an editor for Cyanide databases (.cdb) for the games "Pro Cycling Manager Season 2008, Le Tour de France" and "Pro Cycling Manager Season 2009, Le Tour de France".
This planer is an external program, therefore you need to save your game and quit the Cycling Manager before you can start using this tool

The workflow ist quit simple. At the beginnning all the informations will be extracted from the saved game. Then you can plan your season and  write the settings back to the save. Now you can continue playing the game. This can be done as often as you want and any time during the season.


II. NEW FEATURES
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Version 1.6
Update fr PCM08 only (Bugfix)

Version 1.5
Another bugfix for the Fitness Program. If you used version 1.4 to create 'New Plan' you need to use 'Bugfix Fitness Program' to fix the crash when clicking on a cyclist. 
Now it is possible to use my plan even if you have more then 30 cyclists in your team.

Version 1.4
During the load of the Fitness Program of a cyclist, the whole program was shifted to the right by one week. Use 'Bugfix Fitness Program' from the main menu to fix all programs which are in the folder FitnessPrograms. After you fixed them, you can load them again into the game.

Version 1.3
Own Team: Fixed - Calculation of AVG value of cyclists / New - Display of training type / New - Partial display of injuries
Season Planner: Fixed - Calculation of participating cyclists / Fixed - Display error of races with sponsor objectives
Text: Fixed: Some typos / New - Spanish language

Version 1.1
The number of the participating cyclist will be calculated and displayed above.
It is possible to create and edit fitness programs. The programs will be save as XML and have to be entered manually into the game.
This version is not compatible with version 1.0. Please use version 1.0 to "Export to cdb", then load it using "New Plan" with version 1.1.

Version 1.0
The number of the planned race days will be calculated and displayed to the right of the name of the cyclists.
You can see details of the cyclist by double-clicking its name in the season planer interface.
You can select to only show the races a certain cyclist is participating in.
Bugfix: The favorite races of the cyclists were displayed wrong (on the cyclist below). It will be fixed after you created a new plan.


III. REQUIREMENTS
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Microsoft XP, Vista
Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 


IV. INSTALLATION + UNINSTALLATION
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Installation   - Just extract the archive into an own folder on your drive. Do not delete any files or folders within.
Deinstallation - Just delete the folder. ATTENTION: The actual plan will be deleted as well.


V. QUICK START
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1. Start the program PCM_Planer.exe
2. Select "New Plan" from the start menu (the star), then select your save. (Extracting takes some time)
3. Select "Season Plan" in the menu "Start"
4. In this list you can see at which races your team has participated / will participate
   On the following lines you can see which riders participated
   For all oncomming races you can asign riders to it by clicking the appropriate field
   The races are sorted chronologically, on top you see the class and the country of the race
   You can see, how many riders are allowed to participate. But you don't have to remain between the limits (please test it)
5. Select "Export to cdb" and enter a new name for your save
ATTENTION: Please NEVER overwrite your save while this planer is in the testing phase


VI. ADVANCED FUNCTIONS
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You can change the language by clicking on "Languages" in the start menu (the star).
You can pause your planing and continue later. Please use "Save plan" and "Open plan" in the start menu to do so.
ATTENTION: If you already continued your season, then you have to use "New plan" to load the changed informations from your save. 

My Team - interface
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Here you see all your cyclists. The layout is similar to the one in the game but some columns are not working at the moment.
You can go to this interface by clicking "My team" in the menu "Start" or by clicking the small [T] at the top.
You can sort the list by clicking the column header. A small arrow shows the sorting direction. Hold Ctrl to sort multiple columns.
The last column is used to arrange the cyclist on the 'Season plan'. You can enter values manually or click the button above to use the sorting order you see at the moment.
You can see the number of the planned race days on the tab 'Fitness training'.
Click on a cyclist to see his fitness program. You can edit the program like you are used to within the game. The fitness programs will be saved in the folder FitnessProgram as XML file.
At the moment the programs are not entered into the save. You have to copy them manually and select them in the game.

Season Plan - interface
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Here you see all races. On the timeline below you see which races overlap. 
You can go to this interface by clicking "Season Plan" in the menu "Start" or by clicking the small [P] at the top.
A yellow star indicates the sponsor goals. Hold your mouse over the race name to see the exact sponsor goal.
The favorite races of each cyclist are indicated by a green background.
You can choose if you want to see all races or only the ones your team participates in by checking the options below the list.
The cyclists are sorted as defined in the 'My Team interface' but you can drag them to another position using your mouse. 
You can select or deselect races. Please note that mandatory Pro-Tour races are handled by the game, ignoring your selection. 
If you are a manager of a Conti-team it is possible to asign riders to Pro-Tour races, even if you do not know if you will participate.
You can see the number of the planned race days to the right of the name of each cyclist and the number of participating cyclists above.
Double-click on the cyclists to see their details. You can drag the popup to any location on the screen. Check the option in the head to see only the races he participates in.

Other interfaces
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You can go to other interfaces by using the "Start" menu. 
The other interfaces are only used to overview the data. You cannot change anything there.
You can fast jump to the main interfaces by clicking the small symbol on the top left.


VII. STATUS + OPEN POINTS
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This program can read saves from PCM08 and PCM09. But the sponsor goals are only working when loading PCM09 saves.
Please note that the planer does not support multiple plans at the moment. "New plan" will overwrite an existing plan. 
You could save your plans manually by copying the folder "Data" to another location.

What is not working
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- Some times the progress bar is not working correctly when exporting to cdb. The export is finished, as soon as it disapears (will be fixed)
- The Icons are ugly (will be fixed. Somebody want to make them for me?)
- The colors are not customizable (maybe use of PCM colors later?) 
- Fitness programs will not exported into the save.

What will come in future versions
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- More and/or better interfaces
- Grouping of races (see campaigns) and eventually grouping of cyclists 
- Setting the importance of a race for each participating cyclist
Campaigns:
Races can be grouped into campaigns. You can then asign cyclist to the whole campaign instead of asigning them to each race manually.


Please give me your feedback. Do you have any suggestion for future versions?