Enhanced support for RCS (Remote Coaching Service)
Now, when you use the RCS feature send workouts to another PC Coach user, you can have your system automatically email the file. In addition, you can specify a personal record, or report be sent along with workouts to the remote user. Read more about how to use the new RCS Features in the RCS Enhancements section below.

Improved Printing Options
When printing your heart rate graph, we've added an option to eliminate the color bands behind the graph. This can save you a lot of ink in your print cartridge.

If you wish to activate this option, add the following line to your user.ini file (the user.ini file is a text file located in your user folder. You can edit the user.ini file with Wordpad).

GraphPrintColorBG=F

Other Minor bug fixes
- Time in Zone Pie chart - this chart would sometimes fail to count sample landing precisely on the threshold between heart rate zones.
- Lap times - were sometimes not brought into workouts correctly from .hrm files, especially for Polar S610, S710, S720.

How To Use New RCS Features in PC Coach 3.7

This article assumes you are familiar with the Remote Coaching Service. If you want to learn more about RCS, click here.

PC Coach version 3.7 adds the following features related to RCS (Remote Coaching Service):

Option for Automatic Email
Ability for Coach to send Report Definitions (individually or all)
Ability for Coach to send Personal Records (individually or all)
Ability for Coach to send Heart Rate Zones
Workout Guides go along with Workouts
Customized Workout Icon goes with the workout.

One bug to note is also described at the end of this document.

Option for Automatic Email (on mailbox click, email with attachment is prepared).

Now, when you click on the RCS button (mailbox) you see the familiar dialog allowing you to select the date range to be sent. In addition there is a checkbox for 'Send email now'. If you check this box and click Ok, the program will first determine if your computer's operating system allows us to prepare the email automatically. If this automatic email option is not supported, the familiar message comes up that the .rcs file in C:\Outbox. Currently, this option is available on Windows XP and NT systems, but the Win 98 operating system does not support this option.

If the auto-email feature is available on your system, you are prompted the first time for the email address of the recipient ( your client or your coach). You enter this email address the first time you use RCS, and it will remember it from then on. Next, an email window pops up with the address of the recipient already entered, the subject entered, and the RCS file already attached. You can just click 'Send', or you can type a note first that will be the body of the email.

Ability for Coach to send Report Definitions (individually or all).

Scholastic and Professional versions now allow you to send a report definition to your client. A coach can select to send all reports in the system, or choose to send them one by one. Note that only the reports that are in the current user's space will be sent.

To send all reports (this is an option in Scholastic and Professional versions), after clicking the mailbox, check the box for 'Send Report Definitions'. Continue with sending the workouts, and the reports will be sent in the .rcs file as well.

To send one report, open the report and choose: File-Add to RCS Send List. Next time you send an RCS file (containing workouts) that report definition will go along. You do not need to click the 'Send Reports' checkbox (which sends all reports) in order for that one to be sent.

Note: Although it would not usually be done, an athlete can send a report he has created to his coach by using this same method. The client should open the report and choose: File-Add to RCS Send List. Next time they send an RCS file (containing workouts) that report definition will go along.

Ability for Coach to send Personal Records (individually or all).

Scholastic and Professional versions now allow you to send a Personal Record to your client. You can select to send all the PRECs, or send just one. Note that only the PRECs that are in the current user's space will be sent.

To send all Personal Records(this is an option in Scholastic and Professional versions), after clicking the mailbox, check the box for 'Send Personal Records. Continue on with the sending process.

To send one PREC, open it in the Personal Records Editor. Choose File-Add to RCS Send List. Next time you send an RCS file (containing workouts) that Personal Record will go along. You do not need to click the 'Send Personal Records' checkbox (which sends all PRECs) in order for that one to be sent.

Note: An athlete can send a personal record to his coach by using this method. The client should open the personal record to be sent inside the Personal Records Editor. Choose File-Add to RCS Send List. Next time they send an RCS file (containing workouts) that Personal Record will go along.

Ability for Coach to send Heart Rate Zones.

Scholastic and Professional versions now allow coaches and trainers to send heart rate zones to their clients. The heart rate zones that are defined for the current user will be sent. The thresholds that define a workout's intensity based on number of minutes in a given zone are also sent. This allows the coach and client to see the same pie charts and zone bands.

To send heart rate zones, after clicking the mailbox, check the box for 'Send Heart Rate Zones'. Continue on with the sending process.

Workout Guides go along with Workouts.

You do not need to do anything to make this happen. Workout guides are not included anytime a workout is sent via RCS.

Customized selection of the Workout Icon goes with the workout.

If you have scheduled a workout and chosen a different icon for it than the default, this icon will appear at the client's end when you send the workout via RCS. You do not need to do anything special to make this happen.

One bug to note:
When you receive an RCS file attachment to an email, and open it, this starts PC Coach and logs you in to a user, and brings in the workouts to your calendar. Later, when you go back to your email program, you may see a notice a message that says, "changes have not been saved" in that .rcs file. You can disregard this notice, and close the file without saving changes.