Is there any way to use different color for different activities in the new calendar view. Everything went blue with the new redesign and it's a pain in the a.. to differentiate and find particular activities in the current calendar state. Any way to bring back the old colored activities calendar?
I found another screenshot of my older calendar, to help Garmin understand how much better it was:
I'm sure that eventually someone at Garmin will realize the mistake they've made, but I'm bummed that I can't use the old calendar for my current training.
For comparison, the new calendar:
The advantage of the old one should be obvious to even an idiot.
Totally agree. I run and all my runs are logged on connect. With the old calendar view I could see all the tittles of my runs so coudl see what i had done and plan new. Now it is all hover and useless.
I'm not someone who usually participates to rants on forums but here I can't resist to chime in. ...
I REALLY hope you guys at Garmin are going to take these comments serious and act upon them.
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Frankly, what were you folks thinking when you profoundly screwed up something that was working just fine?
Makes me wonder if the product manager behind this change is actually using the tool himself and how intensively.
With the previous view prior to the 'upgrade' you could very easily keep track of all your activities in the month view since they were very nicely colour coded and the short narrative of the activity was visible.
What we have now is a significant step backwards in that respect: activities are coloured all in one color (only to be chosen out of very light colours that are hard to read) and they are all truncated to a single line item which only makes sense for running or biking since all other activities show the distance and time (even if it's e.g. power training for which these are not relevant parameters). But even for endurance sports like running, biking or swimming you can not read the shorthand labels you assign in the title of the event (e.g. Interval, Tempo, Base) and have to actually open the event to get this info which makes you completely lose the oversight.
Whereas the previous version allowed you to have all this at a glance and made it very appropriate for planning and reviewing
the training schedule the current calendar view has become dysfunctional as a training planning tool.
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So... could you please address this issue or simply roll it back to the previous version?
thanks...
An Utterly Unsatisfied User.
to the point of one of the other users on the forum, I've just copied my rant into a trouble ticket at the Garmin support site (I'm quite sure they're not reading this forum let alone acting upon its comments)
The old calendar was much better than the new one, to have the planning at a glance; I'm missing the different colours for different activities and their title. Also notes do not have titles any more.
Please consider to let the user choos between the new and the old view
If you are creating your workouts in Garmin and then tracking the results via Activities then the Calendar view is quite nice. The complaints seem to be the result of using the calendar to track activities without having corresponding planned workouts.
My workouts are planned in advance and are on my Calendar. I export these workouts to my device. The activities correspond to these workouts. If you modify your behavior the results are a fair bit more pleasant. It might also result in a better running result if you were to plan your workouts (just saying).
Yes, you can indeed plan your workouts, export to the device and then see the corresponding event logged.
But that is only one use case (which is indeed particularly useful when training towards a concrete event like a half marathon or so). For someone who just very steadily does a weekly base, threshold and interval run (sometimes even using the Garmin Fit app on the iPhone when on business travel), all this planning and subsequent exporting to the device is just overhead as opposed the easy logging facility we had. Generically speaking, a tool should accommodate the relevant use cases and not the other way around.
And... they could have easily built both functionalities in the previous view as well...
Yes, you can indeed plan your workouts, export to the device and then see the corresponding event logged.
But that is only one use case (which is indeed particularly useful when training towards a concrete event like a half marathon or so). For someone who just very steadily does a weekly base, threshold and interval run (sometimes even using the Garmin Fit app on the iPhone when on business travel), all this planning and subsequent exporting to the device is just overhead as opposed the easy logging facility we had. Generically speaking, a tool should accommodate the relevant use cases and not the other way around.
And... they could have easily built both functionalities in the previous view as well...
This assumes an analyst and a use case. Connect development appears to be slack cycle developer work at the best of times. Maybe the next slack developer will integrate the current and former implementations or just as easily they will decide that the most fun can be had by rewriting an entirely different section of code.
Planning, Analysis & Design are not the drivers in Connect development. Alternate Flows, Exception Flows and Use Case models are asking for a lot ;)
Next thing you'll be using words like requirements, users and stakeholders.
