This document details how to break your class entries into show classes after check-in. Example: This is the process used when you have many entries into a market swine class, then must break them into show classes of no more than 20, grouped by their weight, for example.
Class = the fourth level/column of the hierarchy (Fair, Department, Division, Class)
Defined Subclass = the fifth level of the hierarchy, manually added to the hierarchy after upload, and available for exhibitors to select at entry time.
Show Classes = the "ring class" that is created when a class or defined subclass is broken using the Class Breaks tool. These appear in the hierarchy in the first-level sub-class column AFTER the class that was broken (usually the first-level subclass), denoted with "Generated". If a defined subclass is broken, the show classes appear at the in the second-level subclass column.
PLEASE NOTE: You can break a class into show classes, or a first-level sub-class into show classes. However, if a class already contains defined sub-classes (added to the hierarchy, available for exhibitors to select for entry), you cannot break a class that contains defined sub-classes. You must instead break the sub-classes into show classes. Basically, whatever you break has to be at the "bottom" of its branch of the hierarchy.
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Quick Video: Class Breaks (12 min.)