Lists - New Draw

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Lists - New Draw

 

Overview

 

Randomly select a contest winner or winners by drawing items from an existing list. Useful for running competitions in a fair and efficient manner.

 

Choose a list by clicking its name in the 'List Summary' screen.

 

The 'List Details' screen will be displayed. Go to 'Draws' tab.

 

 

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Click . The 'New Draw' screen will be displayed.

 

 

Description

 

New Draw

 

 

Draw Information

 

 

Name

 

Unique name for the competition (and associated list, if you choose to create one).

 

Description

 

Any further useful descriptive information.

 

Number of Winners

 

Type the number of winners you would like to retrieve i.e. if there are two cars to be won, type '2'.

 

Seed

 

The seed is an number (integer) that is added to a calculated time element and used to generate a random number. This number is used to determine the winners of the draw.

 

 

 

 

Run draw.

 

 

Cancel and exit.

 

 

 

Winners

The winning list item will be displayed.

 

 

 

Return to the 'List Details' screen (the draw details will now appear in the 'Draws' section table).

 

 

Use these results to create a new list, which you can then use to notify the winners quickly.