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My Personal "TOP TEN" wishlist!

I know it's a "Feature Requests" preference to have one request per thread....However, most...if not all of these have been posted already.

Numerous people on this forum on numerous occasions have asked for better information on what updates will be rolled out, and when...along with the possibility to rank or vote on future updates.

Since there's little or no indication of any of those happening, thought I would share my list....

Feel free to chime in or post your own!

In no particular order:

1. Ability to sort activities on a secondary and tertiary field.
Example: While it's nice to be able to sort on activity name or date, being able to sort by date within Activity Name is a MUCH more powerful tool!

2. A Free form "notes" entry for an activity
Example: Who did you ride with, did you have a flat, who got dropped, etc. etc. etc.

3. All fields editable after an activity has been manually entered.
It makes no sense to allow people to ENTER 15+ fields and not allow them to edit but TWO of them.

4. Allow manual entry of all Health fields not just weight.
Limiting the full ability of this feature to those with ONE particular Tanita scale that works in conjunction with only TWO Garmin products makes no sense!

5. Separate weekly totals by sport.
Mingling running time and distance totals with cycling time and distance makes a neat feature useless.

6. Add the ability to edit an activity.
Adding or removing laps or fixing bad data would be great. However, at a minimum, the ability to truncate the end of a workout would be huge. It's extremely frustrating to realize you finished a ride 20 minutes ago and forgot to hit stop...something most of us have done.

7. Equipment Tracking!

8. User defined Activity types.

9. Dot Racing!
This and many other MB features would be greatly appreciated!

10. Time, Distance, and Speed within Zone.

Since # 10 is on the Coming soon page (whenever that might be)....
I'll give a bonus item: "Moving Average"!

The frustrating part is that probably over half of my wish list would be small tweaks and changes to existing features. However, the result and added benefit to the software would be HUGH!

I'm sure one day GC will get there, just hope I'm still around to see it! :)

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Hi JEFFROBERT41183,

Answering in order . . .

1. Added to feature suggestions. We'll see what can be done with a future release.

2. Already exists. On the Details page you can hover over and click the Description area and add notes.

3. In the works.

4. Looking into this one. It proves to be a little more difficult than most understand.

5. Already exists. Check out the Reports section.

6. In the works.

7. In the works.

8. Not as easy to implement as one would think. This is not currently a hot topic.

9. In the works.

10. Coming soon.

kk

0 jeffrobert41183 over 15 years ago

First, a sincere thank you to RUNKKRUN for her prompt response to my wish list…it is truly appreciated! Not to steal KK’s signature line but concerning her response, I would have to say that overall…”I’m a happy guy”. :)

For ease of following this thread, I’ve included below a recap of my top 10 along with KK’s response to each.

However, a few specific observations and comments:

Item 1 – possible future release.
Excellent, think this would be a powerful tool in trying to find and analyze past activities.

Items 2 and 5 - “already exist”…Excellent!
Not sure how I missed the notes, but I had...shame on me, but excited to have it.
On the separating weekly totals by sport, although I didn’t specify, I really meant on the Calendar weekly totals. But the reporting capabilities are nice.

Items 3, 6, 7, 9 – “In the works”…Encouraging (I think!)
I understand and appreciate Team GC’s reluctance to announce anticipated release dates. However, I think giving customers “SOME IDEA” of when a feature is tentatively planned for release is a much more customer friendly approach than keeping them totally in the dark. Even though target dates may have to be ever changing and often adjusted, something is better than nothing. Does “in the works” imply…. 2, 4 or 6…..weeks, months or years? Who knows?

Item 4 – “proves to be a little more difficult than most understand”
I’ve heard this explanation before concerning this feature request. With all due respect, I wish someone would offer some “details” concerning the difficulties and educate me on this one.
Its nine numeric fields that GC currently handles via wireless upload. So a simple front end to manually input these same 9 numeric fields and treat them the same way as they’re currently handled now and you’re done!
Not saying I’m not missing something here, but if I am, I’m curious as everything as to what it is and would appreciate someone politely pointing out just how clueless I may be.

Item 8 – Not easy and not a hot topic…
I can appreciate that, and while it may have been nice, I can certainly live without it. However, the request made by TORUS0815 for "counts" for manually entered activities, i.e. 50 push ups, is a great idea.

Item 10 – “Coming Soon”…Wonderful!
Again, similar to “in the works”....It would be nice to have some timeframe attached to these projections.

RECAP of "my top ten" and response from KK...

1. Ability to sort activities on a secondary and tertiary field.
RUNKKRUN - Added to feature suggestions. We'll see what can be done with a future release.

2. A Free form "notes" entry for an activity
RUNKKRUN - Already exists. On the Details page you can hover over and click the Description area and add notes.

3. All fields editable after an activity has been manually entered.
RUNKKRUN - In the works.

4. Allow manual entry of all Health fields not just weight.
RUNKKRUN - Looking into this one. It proves to be a little more difficult than most understand.

5. Separate weekly totals by sport.
RUNKKRUN - Already exists. Check out the Reports section.

6. Add the ability to edit an activity.
RUNKKRUN - In the works.

7. Equipment Tracking!
RUNKKRUN - In the works.

8. User defined Activity types.
RUNKKRUN - Not as easy to implement as one would think. This is not currently a hot topic.

9. Dot Racing!
RUNKKRUN - In the works.

10. Time, Distance, and Speed within Zone.
RUNKKRUN - Coming soon.

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Locking this thread as it was answered. Please keep the requests in their individual threads.

Thank you,
April