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Lottery Prize Types

Prize Types for Lottery Prizes

Each prize has a Prize Type, which by default is called “General”.

A ticket cannot win more than one prize per Prize Type.

Many prizes can have the same Prize Type, and for most organisations there is only ever one Prize Type (of “General”) for the lottery.

If all of your tickets are set to a Prize Type of “General” then a ticket cannot win more than one prize per lottery. This is the usual method of running a lottery.

However, if you have special draws where the same ticket can win again, such as an early-bird draw, you can use the Prize Type to separate these different groups. For example you might have several prizes for the Early Bird draw, so these should all have the same Prize Type, such as “Early Bird”.

This gives a ticket an equal chance of winning a prize in both the Early Bird draw and the main (General) draw.

 

 

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Graphic images for Crystal Reports

Supplying Gestalt with images for use in reports

If you want to include graphics, such as a logo into your reports, we prefer the files in the following format:

  • Bitmap or JPG format
  • 300 or 600 dots per inch (72 dots per inch looks great on the screen, but jagged when printed
  • Image size around twice the printed size. We scale the graphic which allows for sharp printing at the smaller size. If you want a 40mm x 40mm logo on the page, we don’t really want one starting at 300mm x 300mm from photoshop!
  • 256 colour (24-bit colour can produce a feint grey ‘box’ around the graphic if the image was scanned and the paper is not pure white).

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