Date sorting

I’m not sure if this will help. First off I’m sure what you want for point 1. I’m still using an older version of BaseCamp, but in mine it is the users job to name lists and folders. As mentioned above, names should be yyyy-mm-dd to sort both alphabetically and chronologically.

For the lower list, click on the tab in the middle left of the map pane. This will switch the map pane with the list content pane. Select an object type from the object icons. This filter the list to objects of a specific type. You should now see additional headers. Tracks/Waypoints will a column header listing start or creation time. Clicking on a column header sorts the list based on that particular header. A second click on the same header will reverse the order.

It would be nice if clicking on the tab would keep the filter and sort orders when switching the map and list content panes, but on my older version this does not happen - selected items will remain highlighted and can be sent to a scratch list if desired to reduce clutter. But, you can resize the panes by dragging the respective edges (cursor will change to something like <--|-->; grab the left edge of the large list content pane and drag to the right, then grab the top of the map pane and drag up).

I’m not sure if this will help. First off I’m sure what you want for point 1. I’m still using an older version of BaseCamp, but in mine it is the users job to name lists and folders. As mentioned above, names should be yyyy-mm-dd to sort both alphabetically and chronologically.

These are not names that I have chosen - they are as created automatically when data was received from the device. For example, I have just received data from my device ... which added 22/09/2016 after 21/04/2014 and before 23/03/2015. There are too many to rename manually.

For the lower list, click on the tab in the middle left of the map pane. This will switch the map pane with the list content pane. Select an object type from the object icons. This filter the list to objects of a specific type. You should now see additional headers. Tracks/Waypoints will a column header listing start or creation time. Clicking on a column header sorts the list based on that particular header. A second click on the same header will reverse the order.

That is better! I can now see activities in the large list, in any order I want. Does not affect the order when the small list is used, though.

It would be nice if clicking on the tab would keep the filter and sort orders when switching the map and list content panes, but on my older version this does not happen - selected items will remain highlighted and can be sent to a scratch list if desired to reduce clutter. But, you can resize the panes by dragging the respective edges (cursor will change to something like <--|-->; grab the left edge of the large list content pane and drag to the right, then grab the top of the map pane and drag up).

Yes, I had noticed that the settings were lost after any switch. (using v4.6.2)

Thanks for your help.

Martin

Your welcome.

One thing a forgot to mentioned. This will likely depend on what device you own, but at least for some devices saving a track on the device will default to YYYY-MM-DD 24hr Time. The date and time will that at which the track is saved - not start or finish date/time. So saving a track on the device immediately after finishing data collection may be a better than having BaseCamp pull tracks from the track log if you do not plan on changing the names.

One comment if working with FIT files. In this case the name of an imported track is determined by the short date format in your PC settings. In my case this defaulted to DD.MM.YYYY which was driving me creazy for years. With the setting YYYY-MM-DD all imported items are now perfectly sorted according to the date/time the activity started.