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Edit Goals (not delete, EDIT)

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi,

I've been using a Forerunner 610 for the last couple of months. I've set up my goals for the entire year (ambitious, given that it's my first running watch) and went for runs. I've realized that, for some reason, whenever I classify my sessions as anything different than Runnning (I use 'Other' for each football match I play) it won't count them as part of my goals.

My goals are set up for distance, and I want to include my football matches, but I also want to classify them as something different (BTW: I can't believe that there's no 'Football' option within that list, but you get 'Tennis' and 'Golf'. Yes. 'Golf') than running. So, my guess is that I have to edit my goals to include all activities or something of the sort. Unhappily, I can't and I don't know why. There's no EDIT button for my active goals.

I don't know what's up with that, it might be a way to prevent users from cheating to themselves or something like that. I can edit Future goals, but not the active nor the historical.

Is there a workaround? I've found a thread in the archives of this forum talking about the same issue (actually, back then you couldn't edit at all, according to what I've read) but it's 6 years old.

Hope to be dumb instead of dissapointed.

Regards,

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

You definitely can't edit active goals.
Or create a repeating goal.
Because Garmin.
Seriously, why would you want to go running more than once, ever? Our use case is for people who buy a device and use it once, then leave it in a drawer.

It might be possible to edit a future goal, I forget.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Yup, couldn't agree with you guys more!
Garmin have done so much to make this system useful, but they seem to fall over on the important things (segments broken for over three months!!!!) and simple/obvious features such as this.
Susi xxx

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

How to edit an active Goal in Garmin Connect

How to edit an active Goal in Garmin Connect;

This is how I edited my active Dec 2016 goal on Dec 10, 2016.
I was using my laptop and from my Dashboard (which I created) I edited my Dec 2016 goal.
While viewing my Dec 2016 goal window I select the "Settings" icon in the upper right corner (it looks like a little round object).
Select "Go to Full Page" - this will show you all your active goals.
Select the goal you want to edit by selecting the "edit pencil" icon.
A drop down will come up and select the feature you edit. I changed my distance target.
Hope this helps!