Installation Instructions for a User Defined Contest (UDC)

User Defined Contests are not distributed with the program installer, either Full or Latest Update

• A list of available User Defined Contests is located on the Supported Contests List page (enter udc in the search window).
• The UDC files themselves are found on the N1MM Logger+ website, located under >Downloads >Category Listing >User Defined Contests
• To enable a UDC contest and select it in the contest configuration dialog window
  1. Locate the desired UDC file on the website in >Downloads >Category Listing >User Defined Contests page (Note: for some UDCs, the file is a Zip archive file that contains the UDC and other files)
  2. Download the .UDC or .zip file to your computer’s hard drive in the UserDefinedContests directory in the N1MM Logger+ user files area, which is normally located at C:/Users/username/Documents/N1MM Logger+/UserDefinedContests. (Note: If you have moved the user files area during a reinstall, perhaps to avoid problems with OneDrive, there may be more than one N1MM Logger+ folder in your system; the one to download files to is the one that is pointed to from the Help > Open Explorer on User Files Directory menu item.) If the file is a zip file, open it from Windows File Explorer and extract all of the files it contains directly into the UserDefinedContests directory (not into a subdirectory, as Windows may offer to do); after you do this, the UDC file should be visible in the contents of the directory. If there is a readme file, read it and follow the instructions there (for example, it may tell you to move a .sec file to your SupportFiles directory)
  3. Restart N1MM Logger+
  4. Within N1MM Logger+, select >File >New Log in Database.
  5. Find and choose the UDC contest name you downloaded (without the .UDC file suffix). It will be included in alphabetic order among the list of all other supported contest names. NOTE: if you do not see the contest in that list, use a text editor (Notepad) to open the UDC file. Find the “Name =” statement (around line 10 of the file) which defines the actual contest name. In some instances the Name= statement may not match the Windows .UDC file name.
  6. If the contest files include a companion section list (.sec) file, you need to move/copy the .sec to your computer’s Documents\N1MM Logger+\SupportFiles folder. Then, launch N1MM+ and the >File >Open Log in Database contest dialog window will display the “Import Section List” button. Click on that button to import the section list for this particular contest.mmfiles/categories/userdefinedcontests/A list of available User Defined Contests is located on the Supported Contests List page (enter udc in the search window).