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Bulk edit activity name

I'm going to import over 7 years worth of TomTom run data into Garmin and would like to bulk edit the names of the runs to TomTom Run to keep them separate/easily identifiable from my new runs from my Garmin..

Is this possible or do I have to go through them individually and rename them/confirm change, as that would be very time consuming.

0 BunBun! over 2 years ago

Maybe just add a note when the change occurred, to last activity or the calendar.

Other options:

depending on a file type, use a text editor and multi-replace names in files from a directory, before import,
write a script - below the request to change an activity's name.

fetch('https://connect.garmin.com/modern/proxy/activity-service/activity/' + act.activityId,
{
    'headers': { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'NK': 'NT', 'X-HTTP-Method-Override': 'PUT' },
    'body': '{"activityName":"NAME","activityId":' + act.activityId + '}',
    'method': 'POST'
})

0 WillNorthYork over 2 years ago in reply to BunBun!

If I were going to script this, I would do it in 4 parts (assuming the names of the runs to import can’t be edited somehow before importing them.)

1) Use a script to add a suffix to every existing Garmin Connect activity name which will never occur in any real data (something like “ [ORIGINAL]”)

2) Import all TomTom data to Connect (hopefully the runs can be bulk imported)

3) Use another script to add another suffix to all activities which lack the step 1 suffix, like “ [TOMTOM]”

4 Finally, use a script to remove the step 1 suffix from all activities

I have no idea how importing from TomTom works though. Do you get individual FIT/GPX files and do you have to import them one at a time?

0 trux over 2 years ago

Another possibility, if you want to limit the scripting, or when you want to avoid it completely:

Change the Activity Name naming pattern to "Untitled" in GC User Settings
Import the files
Now all the new imported files are titled "Untitled", which you can easily filter out in Garmin Connect, and change in bulk either by a script or manually (which is possible in GC Web directly on the Activity list page, without the need to enter the activity details, hence rather quick).

0 WillNorthYork over 2 years ago in reply to trux

That's an interesting idea, but:

- what if they don't want all their imported activities to be named "Untitled"?

- once all your imported activities have the exact same name, then changing them in bulk means they will still have the exact same name or perhaps the exact same name with a date/time or sequence suffix

- I disagree that manually changing 7 years worth of activities will be quick, unless you only have 1 or 2 activities per year

I could be wrong, but I feel like the goal would be to keep things as close to "normal" as possible (e.g. imported activities would still have somewhat meaningful names), except the imported activities would just have a slightly different name to distinguish them from Garmin activities.