Image Competition Manager
Setup

The Image Competition Manager (ICM) program is used with your website. Please follow the steps below to setup this program.

  1. Download and install the ICM program using a separate copy of your browser by clicking here.
  2. When you start the ICM program the first time it will not have your club definitions. On the form that displays, click “New Club”. Enter your Club Id you saved from your website. This Id uniquely identifies your club. Specify a new folder for the “root folder”. This folder will hold subfolders with your new competitions. Be sure to start with an EMPTY folder. Enter in your Login Name and password, the same ones you used to login to your website. If you gave others the role of “Competition Manager”, they may use their credentials. NEVER SHARE PASSWORDS. Each person must use their own personal Login Name and password when using the ICM program and website.
  3. Clicking “Start Job” with synchronize the ICM program with your website. For this initial use, your definitions will be downloaded from the server hosting your website.
  4. When the transfer completes, you are ready to create competitions. Use the Help menu item for instructions on using the ICM program.

Submitting Images Using the Website

Members may logon to the website using their own Login Name and password. This will identify the user and provide access to their personal images. New competitions should be created in advance, generally using the website, but may also be created using the ICM program.

  1. Club member must login to the website before they can submit images for a competition.
  2. Use the “Competitions, Submit Images to a Competition” menu item. Click “Select” on the competition you wish to enter.
  3. Use the “Upload or Catalog and Image into the Competition” button. You may use this button to enter titles for slides and prints even if they do not have a file to upload.
  4. You may re-enter previously uploaded images, if allowed by your club, using other options on this page. Attempts to upload duplicate images or duplicate titles for the same author will be rejected.
  5. It is highly recommended you use the “Check Spelling” button to check the spelling of your titles. The other fields on this form are described on the form.
  6. When you click the “Add Image” button, any file specified will be uploaded to the server hosting your website.
  7. You may remove or modify the image information using the buttons provided.

Synchronizing ICM with the Website

Images, club definitions, competitions, and member information are all shared between the website and the ICM program. Images and information changed with the ICM program must be sent to the server and images and information changed on the website must be sent to the ICM program.

To synchronize all of your competitions, use the “Club” tree item on the left side of the ICM program. Use the “Import/Export” tab and click “Send and receive Updates”. You will need your Login Name and password. DO NOT SHARE PASSWORDS. Each person using the ICM program should use their own account.

Instead of synchronizing the entire club, you may also use the “Import/Export” tab for any Competition Group or Competition.

It is possible that some transfers may take many minutes, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. During a long transfer, you may actually close the ICM program and the transfer will continue invisibly in the background. If you reboot your machine, the transfer will resume as soon as it notices you are reconnected to the Internet.

If you exit the transfer form, you must return to the form for the data to be processed. You may also use the form to cancel a transfer that is in progress.