Goal progress on dashboard

I agree

Perhaps we could have a section on the connect forum where there was an online form to complete for bug/ features, with which could then be harvested directly by the appropriate department from within Garmin.

The form could have sections for operating system, computer type, activity reference..etc so that there is a complete data set for de-bugging not the several emails/ threads it takes now?

In genera, not specific response If Garmin then acknowledged problems and explained things better there may be less moaning on the site and less threats of people being banned!

Steve

Perhaps we could have a section on the connect forum where there was an online form to complete for bug/ features, with which could then be harvested directly by the appropriate department from within Garmin.

If I'm understanding your request correctly, isn't that what the support form linked by April already accomplishes?

INDEED

Sorry I missed that

Lets all try to use it?

(other than it gives an error of "* You are using an unsupported browser" on Safari 4.03).

Anyone else see the problem I originally posted?

I see I've stimulated some discussion there :) Thanks for your responses one and all.

I'll have a crack at reporting the bug. Out of interest though, does anyone else have the same problem? I guess it's a minor thing, but it stands in the way of the progress graphic being really useful.

I'm just being lazy really. I should just do some sums in my head to work out whether I'm on track with my goals or not :)

Cheers, Julian

Julian, yes, I noticed the same problem, even before you mentioned it. I thought it was odd, mostly, and not an impediment to using the site.

Thanks jbattle. Good to know it's not just me having this odd peculiar.

Cheers, Julian

goal progress indicator problem debugged

I finally had a look into this problem, and I think I understand what is going on.

The progress bar is shown with this bit of html:

<div id="statusTodayMarker1" class="progressBarToday goalProgressBarToday" style="width: 47%;">
<span>Today</span>
</div>

That "47%" is what determines how wide the green progress indicator bar is. Actually measuring its width vs the total width of what represents 100% shows it is coming up short (about 38% in my case today).

Using the Firebug debugger in Firefox, I found that the div is indeed 47% as requested (the right side of "y" in "Today" does reach to 47% as requested), but the vertical bar is quite a bit to the left of the right side of the div.

Looking into the css, the background image specified for the div is

http://connect.garmin.com/api/goal/component/images/indicator-today.gif

This image is 21 pixels wide, with the vertical bar on the left side of the gif. In effect, there are 20-ish pixels of padding to the right of the bar, shift it left in the div (as the image is positioned relative to the top right of the div).

Why they do that, I don't know. It does have the effect of centering the bar over the word "Today", but at the cost of moving the strong visual indicator to a misleading position 20 pixels to the left of where it should be. A better solution would instead have been to position the text "Today" right 20 pixels relative to the right edge of the div.

Where does this leave us? I suppose it would be possible to write a greasemonkey script to fix this for the 1% of all users who both use Firefox and have greasemonkey installed. More realistically, a developer at Garmin might read this,slap their forehead, and fix the problem at the source.

Hi jbattle,

I didn't realise you'd replied to this, way back in September. Looks like you've done some good analysis there. Perhaps the Garmin developers will pick on it - you never know.

Happy new year,

Julian

Looks like this has been fixed recently. Hurrah! I don't think I've used the goals since May until this month, but the progress line appears to be in the correct place now.:)