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FitContribution: How to show states in charts, as it's done with "Run/Walk"

JensDuttke
over 1 year ago

Hello,

on the Garmin website/in the app, there is a Activity chart called "Run/Walk" which shows 3 states (Idle, Walk and Run), and each state is colored differently (the first chart):

I'm reading data ("Mode") from a BLE device (the second chart in the screenshot), and I want to visualize the 3 possible options in the same way. Unfortunately, the available data types are only different numbers and their units, but I don't see an option to specify that "0 equals standby; 1 equals manual; 2 equals automatic". Beside that, it's only possible to define only one color per chart.

Does anyone know if that's possible?

Thanks!

Many regards,
Jens

  • +1 over 1 year ago

    Unfortunately, that's not possible.

    You could change your data label to help the user: e.g. "WalkingPad Mode (0: standby, 1: manual, 2: automatic)"

    It's not a perfect solution, but it might be a workable compromise.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to FlowState

    Hello,

    that's a great idea, but unfortunately Garmin only allow 30 characters as chart title:

    WARNING: 'chartTitle' references a string ('FitFieldModeTitle'=>'WalkingPad Mode (0: standby, 1: manual, 2: automatic)') in the language 'DEFAULT' which is longer than the allowed 
length of '30'. The value will be truncated.

    Many regards,
    Jens

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to JensDuttke

    Ah, should've guessed there'd be a length limit :/. What's the limit on the length of the units text?

    "0:standby, 1:manual, 2:auto" is 28 characters.

    You could also try to set a session field, with a string value that that explains the chart numbers (probably the least appealing option, since it won't appear in the same part of the UI as the graph.)

    e.g.

    WalkingPad Modes: "0: standby, 1: manual, 2: auto"

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to FlowState

    Hello,

    I like your first idea better. I've changed it slightly to "Mode (0: Standby, 1: M, 2: A)". Since the treadmill also shows "M" and "A" the user should know what it means. That's 29 characters - and even with the german translation "Modus" it fits into the 30 characters limit. :-)

    Many regards,
    Jens