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Fields that should be filled automatically

Hello,

When I enter an activity manually, why do I have to fill fields manually with datas that the watch and/or the application already tracked? I enter the time and duration, OK, but my max/min/average heart rates??? My max/min/average paces??? My elevation gain, footsteps, calories??? Why do I have to write it myself after searching it somewhere in the application? I even have to write the calories burned according to Google Fit, since Garmin Connect doesn't calculate it...

Shouldn't fields be filled automatically with the datas already tracked?

0 JSRUNNER_ over 7 years ago

Manual entry of data is for activities not captured on your watch so you would expect to enter everything

Are you not synchronising activities from your device

Which garmin device do you have

0 ASmugDill over 7 years ago

Shouldn't fields be filled automatically with the datas already tracked?

No. If you're expecting to be able to specify a contiguous period by its start and end times, and have Garmin Connect extract the detail from 24×7 activity tracking data to populate a manually created timed activity record, then it's time you recalibrated your expectations and learn what the Garmin Connect service will or will not do.

0 JSRUNNER_ over 7 years ago

Ah I see now :) hadn't understood what he was trying to do

0 Charade over 7 years ago

Sorry, I didn't answer your questions and replies sooner!

- My watch is VivoSmart HR+.

- Yes, I synchronize everyday with the phone application.

- What I try to explain is that when the datas already are in the application, why not select and use the ones in a given laps of time? I see it like some kind of spreadsheet: we select cells (in this case: the time and duration of an activity), and the software processes the selected datas as asked, according to formulas.

When the heart graph is already showing, when we actually *see* its peeks and valleys matching the time line of our day, with the yellows and reds clearly associated with the time of the activities, I cannot believe that a machine will not "see" it as well and act logically on it.

0 ASmugDill over 7 years ago

@Charade: It simply does not work that way, no matter what you think would be technically possible to do, far less anything you think ‘should’ be implemented to please the device user who did not (or simply forgot to) start tracking a timed activity on his/her Garmin wearable device at the time it is performed. Time to recalibrate your expectations of the appliance you purchased.

0 Charade over 7 years ago

Well... Okay... I'll have to accept "Because it's like that, and that's the way it is" as an answer...