How to access the setting Page for a datafield?

RE: How to access the setting Page for a datafield?

Andre8660 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:01:21 GMT

Thanks. That worked.

RE: How to access the setting Page for a datafield?

jim_m_58 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:28:41 GMT

My Datafield is not showing in the Connect APP. In Garmin Express is listed but the three dots for the settings are missing there.

That will only work if you install from the app store. You can mark it as beta so only you can install it.

See https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/w/wiki/4/new-developer-faq#app-settings

RE: How to access the setting Page for a datafield?

Andre8660 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:06:10 GMT

[quote userid="117275" url="~/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/422688/how-to-access-the-setting-page-for-a-datafield/1976653#1976653"]That's on-device settings which are accessed on the device itself. You implement those by defining your own settings view and returning it from getSettingsView() on your view class:[/quote]

Thanks i will look at that

[quote userid="117275" url="~/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/422688/how-to-access-the-setting-page-for-a-datafield/1976653#1976653"]That's "off-device" settings which are defined in resource XML files and accessed via the Connect IQ app on your phone or Garmin Express on a computer. They're not available on the device itself.[/quote]

My Datafield is not showing in the Connect APP. In Garmin Express is listed but the three dots for the settings are missing there.

RE: How to access the setting Page for a datafield?

flowstate — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:13:43 GMT

[quote userid="1069179" url="~/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/422688/how-to-access-the-setting-page-for-a-datafield"]In the Simulator i can access via File > Edit Persistent Store > Edit Application.Properties data[/quote]

That's "off-device" settings which are defined in resource XML files and accessed via the Connect IQ app on your phone or Garmin Express on a computer. They're not available on the device itself.

[quote userid="1069179" url="~/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/422688/how-to-access-the-setting-page-for-a-datafield"] On the Edge normaly i will asked if a want to edit the settings when i add a datafield from the iq store. But it doesnt when i add my own datafield and i see no other way to get access there.[/quote]

That's on-device settings which are accessed on the device itself. You implement those by defining your own settings view and returning it from getSettingsView() on your view class:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Application/AppBase.html#getSettingsView-instance_function

The big difference here is that you have to implement the UI and code to read/write settings yourself, instead of just declaring settings like you do in the other case.