Glance Folders and Complications

I've mentioned Glance Folders a few times and I don't think most people have seen them (and there is a CIQ tie in!)..

Basics. Some devices have a ton of glances, and Glance Folders are a way to organize them. When scrolling up/down from a watch face, you see the glances. With Glance Folders you can have some of those glances in a folders, so the glance loop is shorter but you can still access them all.

Here's a case where I created a folder named "Weather" and I added two glances to it. My WU Weather widget and the native weather widget:

You see my icon/current temperature as well as the native weather widget's icon/current temperature. If you select the Glance Folder, it opens another screen and you see the normal stuff you see in a glance. This, by the way, is a screen shot of the fr255.

Here's the CIQ tie in. To show what I show for my app in the folder, that app needs to publish complications. It defines both the icon as well as the data. When defining a complication, this is the meaning of

glancePreview="true"

in a <complication>...</complication>

There's no way to see this in the sim, and from what I've seen, a max of 6 characters seems to work best

it defines which complication is displayed in the folder

Doing things like building an iq file for a complication publisher has issues, so I've been using sideloads to test this. This is a part of complications that most may not have looked at - the publishing side.

_psx_ over 2 years ago

1. which devices have glance folders? I can't find it on my f6p 25.00 (system 6).

2. Is does mean that in glance folder can be put only widget that are prepared in any special way?

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to _psx_

1) the 255 and 955 for sure, the f7 family and probably the epix2 and marq2, and if the 255 has it, I expect the 265/s and 965 will have them too.

2) only if you want to show in a glance folder as I posted in the picture. You can add an app that doesn't publish, bit it won't show when you view the folder, only when you open the folder.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago

Who/what can create a folder? Let's say you as a developer can you create an app with glance and define to be installed inside a glance folder? Or does the user have the ability to create glance folders from GCM / GE? Or is this just a hidden secret for developers to be able to move their tested glances in a folder in order not to have too many glances when they use their watches as a real user (when not developing), but they need to create the folders and move the apps into the folders when connecting the device as mass storage?

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

It's done by the user on the device itself. Instead of just adding a glance, you have the option to create a folder and put glances in it. That's actually been on some devices for a few months if I recall. Nothing secret about it.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I still don't undertand: I think I do undertand the "instead of just adding a glance", 'cause that's what i did already: adding a widget that has glance. I do it usually from the GCM but sometimes from GE.

But if I understand correctly then what you say is that AFTER doing so I could connect the watch as USB mass storage, find the Glances folder (?) and create a sub-directory in it, then move some of the apps to this folder?

Even if I understood it's certainly not a user friendly way. Where was it published by Garmin?

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Hi, no, on the device itself, on widget carrouel you can create a "glance folder", I mean everybody who has this (from Fenix6). and this folder will show you "mini glance"

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-C001C335-A8EC-4A41-AB0E-BAC434259F92/EN-US/GUID-61C825F5-5D80-413F-BA3F-CD8C51BB63F2.html

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

you mean from fenix7 I think, 'cause I have fenix6, just upgraded to the latest 25.10 alpha-beta-prod version, and there's no such thing in the menu "Appereance", only "Widgets"

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Yes, they came about on the fr255,955,f7 and Epix2 if I recall. Nothing older, like the f6

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

yes, my bad, I meant F7