For completion I would like to add some gear to my Garmin account I used before, but if I retire it it only gets "today" as date, I need a way to edit the correct dates in.
Would be also good to rename retired gear if I want to make a correction or improvement, but thats only possible on active stuff, and if I set it as active to edit and then inactive again the retired date gets messed up further because I cant edit it.
Also some more statistics would be nice, distance doesn't make sense for everything, I think adding at least usage time would be useful.
Adding photos of your equipment would also be nice.
Yes, I agree - we need to be able to edit retirement date like we can edit First Use date. Come on Garmin - make Connect a better product - Strava is looking better every day...
Yes, I agree - we need to be able to edit retirement date
How often do you need it? Once you set up a gear with a wrong date, and find it out, you simply remove it, and create again correcty. If you do the same mistake again later, it can perhpas happen, but if it happnes more than twice, then you can only blame yourself.
Ah,ok, I missed that. However, the answer would be similar: retitring mistakenly a gear can perhpas happen, but repeating the same error over and over can't be blamed to Garmin. Simply never retire a gear unless you are sure you won't use it any more. And if you do it by mistake, create a new gear, and call it something like "My Old Gear - extension", and sum up both of them if you want to see the totals. I see it as no issue, and no reason for enabling the date editing, that would only open a new can of worms.
I have a bike that I should have retired a few years ago, but it got overlooked, When I retired it, the retirement date is the date I clicked the Retire button. Just like I am able to edit the First Use date I should be able to edit the Retirement date - I don't get where you are coming from Trux, any modern computing system should be able to do simple things like this, stop blaming the user and make the system more usable.
Then, the question is whether such change would really make it more usable, or exactly the opposite. As I wrote in my previous post, allowing the modification of the gear retirement would open a new can of worms. So for example if you'd decide to retrospectively retire gear a few months earlier, the system would then had to remove the gear from all activities past the selected date. Now, it may be exactly what you are looking for, but you can bet that there would be thousands of users who would do it by mistake, or had mistakenly entered a wrong date, and the gear would be stripped from hundreds of their activities that they wanted to keep, in fact. Certainly it could be done reversible too, but still I am not sure at all whether it would make the system more usable or more confusing for the majority of users. In any case, one thing is certain, and that is, that it would definitely significantly increase the number of support requests, and hence it would trigger additional cost to Garmin, which may be the reason they preffered keeping it in the way it is.
So, from this point of view, keeping the system as close to the real-life gear usage, makes more sense. Finally, in real life when you throw away your shoes once, you cannot decide, you want to use them again, either.
