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Please disregard/close: mistaken bug report ("can't add gear")

EDIT:

Sorry, this was just a mistake on my part. I missed the fact that the UX element for adding gear has always been in one place (near the top), while the UX element that actually shows your gear is on the bottom-right hand corner (and it disappears when you remove gear).

While I don't like this UX (especially since the 2nd UX element literally says "Change Gear" and it disappears when you remove gear), it's totally not a bug.

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OP: BUG: Cannot add gear to activity unless it already has gear

Looks like there's a new bug in Garmin Connect Web where you can't add gear to an activity that doesn't already have gear. The button/link for managing gear ("Change Gear") is completely missing in this case.

As noted in another thread, this is obvious if you import an activity manually.

This may have been missed because most people have default gear for running or cycling that automatically gets added to the activity.

Recreation procedure:

- Navigate to existing activity in GC web
- Remove existing gear
- Observe that the "Change Gear" link for editing gear disappears and there's no way to bring it back

OR 

- Create an activity that doesn't have default gear (e.g. Strength.)

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  • Oh, and on the subject of UX:

    Most runners I know don't even bother to manage their shoes in Strava or Garmin Connect, let alone multiple pieces of gear. If you tell them that they have to open Strava in a browser to add shoes, their eyes glaze over. The lesson I learned from that is: if it isn't easy, most people aren't going to do it.

  • Any number of Gear items can be set to be assigned automatically by activity type.  It is quite easy to set up.

    In an ideal world we would be able to set up bike or whatever profiles that were identified automatically from the sensor IDs, which you alluded to above, but in the meantime this is what we got.