Profiles

HH Timing V2 keeps its settings in profiles. There are three kinds:

Profile	What it holds	Where to open it
Connection	How to connect to the timing feed	Data ribbon page, Network group, Connection Profiles
Entity	The names and appearance of the cars, drivers, categories, driver categories, teams, car manufacturers and tyre specifications	Components ribbon page, Configuration group, Entity
Strategy	The race definition, pit stop, car strategy and ghost settings	Components ribbon page, Configuration group, Strategy

You can keep as many profiles of each kind as you like, but only one of each kind is active at a time. HH Timing V2 only uses the active profiles: it connects with the active connection profile, shows the cars with the active entity profile and calculates with the active strategy profile.

Profiles are saved in the project, so each project has its own profiles and its own active profiles.

The active profile

In the profile list, a dot marks the active profile. In the connection and entity windows, Active profile is also shown beside the name of the selected profile when it is the active one.

When you open a profile window, the active profile is selected.

The first profile

The first profile you create becomes active straight away, so it works without any extra step. This also applies to a profile you duplicate or import, and to a new profile created after you deleted the active one.

When a profile is already active, a new profile is not made active. Use Apply and Activate or Set as Active to switch to it.

The profile list

The list on the left of each profile window has these buttons:

• Add creates a new profile. A new connection profile asks for its connection type first.
• Delete deletes the selected profile. The active strategy profile cannot be deleted. Deleting the active connection or entity profile leaves no profile of that kind active.
• Duplicate creates a copy of the selected profile.
• Import and Export load a profile from a file, or save the selected profile to a file, to share it with another project or another user.
• Set as Active makes the selected profile the active one.

Apply and Activate

Your changes to a profile are only saved when you apply them. The buttons at the bottom of each profile window are:

• Apply saves the changes to the selected profile. If it is the active profile, HH Timing V2 uses the changes straight away. If it is not, the changes are saved but not used.
• Apply and Activate saves the changes to the selected profile and makes it the active one. It is disabled when the selected profile is already active.
• Close closes the window. If the selected profile has unsaved changes, you are asked whether to apply them first.

If you select another profile while the current one has unsaved changes, you are asked whether to apply them.

The status bar

The status bar at the bottom of the main window shows the name of each active profile. Click a name to open that profile window.

To choose which active profiles the status bar shows, open File > Options and tick the options of the Status bar group:

• Show active connection profile
• Show active entity profile
• Show active strategy profile

A kind of profile with no active profile is not shown.

Profile specifics

• Connection: while a connection is running, the active connection profile cannot be edited and no other profile can be made active. Stop all connections first. See Network.
• Entity: the active entity profile can switch on its own when the session's championship changes. See Entity Configuration.
• Strategy: see Strategy Parameters.