Connect 3.19

Yeah it doesn't move between 2 and 3 on my MacBook Pro with Safari. Stuck at 2 which is really annoying. Leaves a big gap on the right side. Doesn't seem to matter if i make the browser window fill the screen or not.

Have you tried zooming the browser? Zoom out and you'll get more columns.

I personally like the new look.

One thing that I've noticed is that when you go to the list of activities, a number of fields that used to be available is much less now.
Another is that (in Chrome) what used to line up properly in 4 columns now moves to 3. However, if I zoom to 90% it returns to 4 (which is my preference). Then if I zoom back to 100%, the 4 columns stay until the next refresh and then it's rinse and repeat. However if I keep it at 90% it seems to stay at 4 columns.

What do you mean? Easy enough to get a full listing of your activities. As before via the cog in the widget or chose Activities, All Activities from the sidebar.



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Nit picking!

Submit feature requests to Garmin if you want these suggestions considered.

You always seem to provide a negative response to positive suggestions, and seem to
have a lot of postings in that regard.
Improvement suggestions are not "nit picking", that's just your negative point of view.

iPad and Macbook

Just tried the new version on my iPad. Not an improvement I'm afraid, in fact is a big step in the wrong direction. Most of the widgets don't display correctly, especially the activity one, where some of the text goes outside the boxes or under the map. The calendar view doesn't show the whole calendar, and you can't scroll.

There is also a bug with Safari. When I open the dashboard it shows 3 widgets side by side. When you open the sidebar to select the dashboard from another window, it opens with 2 side by side and you can't change it. If you open the website again from another, it displays 3.

Poor implementation testing by Garmin it would seem.

Connect 3.19 - All Activities

In general, I don't mind the updated UI. It looks good.

But...

There are a couple of things that I have found very annoying already that I think are a big step backwards.

The main problem I have is relating to the "All Activities" screen.

One problem is that if you have a lot of activities and you want to view one from a while ago, you can't skip back a few pages worth of data - you have to keep scrolling down and down and down and wait for the data to load. It would be good if there was a way to paginate the data so you could click that you want to go to a certain page.

Previously I was able to display a lot more data in the table. Aside from the activity date, I used to display 11 columns.

As my usual activities are kayaking, they fall into the "other" category. Now, apart from only being able to display 5 columns of data at a time, being an "other" I only get to choose my 5 out of a possible 6. Previously, it seemed like there were about 50 different metrics I could display (some relevant, some not).

One metric that's missing that I find useful for comparing my kayaking activities, is the total number of strokes (I can't remember the exact name of the field - because it's not available any more - it might have just been called "strokes"). Since the update, I can no longer get that information from anywhere (there are more data fields if I change to cycling, but strokes isn't one of them) - it isn't in the screen for the specific activity (it wasn't before the update either), so previously I was only able to get the value from the "all activities" table. I guess I could manually calculate it by taking the "average stroke rate" and multiplying by the activity duration - but aren't updates supposed to improve the user experience rather than make extra work for, and frustrate, the user?

One other thing that I have already found annoying, is that I used to be able to highlight a row in the activities table and copy and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet (so that I can graph, filter and manipulate the data etc). The data would copy perfectly as a single row. Now when I try that, the values come through in a single column and also include the column titles (distance, calories etc).

So, instead of it copying just values in a nice neat row like...
Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:52 1:50:25 20.18 11 12.1 164 174 33 1,568 5 3,629

it now copies them in a column like...
20.17 km
DISTANCE
1:52:17
TIME
10.8 kph
AVG SPEED
164 bpm
AVG HR
1,563 C
CALORIES

...which isn't very helpful.

Like I said, in general I don't have a problem with the update - the main issue for me (and for a number of other people as well - as far as I can tell from other complaints I have read in other posts), is that it has "dumbed things down" to make it look pretty, and in the process it seems to have completely ignored those users who are really into their stats and data analysis. On the mobile app, I'm happy for it to look pretty and not show as much data - I don't use my mobile device for full data analysis, I just use it to look at my activities and daily steps/sleep/etc, but for the web version when I am sitting at my PC, I want to have all of the data available to me.

For me, one of the big selling points of Garmin over other brands (my wife uses Polar), is that prior to the update, there was a lot of information available for individual activities. It seems to be a "form over function" update where activities are concerned, which is sad as activities are a big component of what Garmin is about - the devices are activity trackers after all.

Walking activities?

It would appear that filters for walking activities are left out of the activities list.

How do I set up to display only my activities classified as a walk?

Don't like the new GUI, but don't mind it... just a quick question... I used to have info on steps in my running activity in the activities screen, Now, I don't know how to get the number of steps I did on my run. Any ideas?

This update is truly awful! More clicks required to do the same thing, overall appearance is trash, and now I can only have 5 metrics in the Activities view? I used to recommend Garmin, partially based on the online experience, but there's no way I could do that now. I might have to stop using it altogether myself; this is just ridiculous.

Hi, no idea if this is how you report a bug but here goes. I use calorie goals set to 'any activity type' quite a lot. Since the update this week, they count double the number of calories they should. The underlying data is correct and othe widgets report calories correctly (e.g. 'Total calories' report). This doesn't seem to apply when you set the activity type to be a specific activity type like running, just 'any activity type'. Would be great to see this fixed, thanks.