"WPT NEXT" field now supports custom course points names

There is no data field for name of next course point, only distance to next course point.

Next waypoint name is name of next turn-by-turn indication as generated by the 1040.

I think they fixed it. I don` t think it is a mistake. It does what it should have always have done. On the Fenix 6 that` s what it does, display the name of the next waypoint.

I dont have much experience in this forum, wanted to delete a duplicate answer and I have deleted all their children 

Sorry.

L.Rouge , at least your answer with the summary of everything about WPT NEXT field is safe and the post is cleaner now

 I noticed you have course points that are named with more than 10 chars. How do you do this. 

I create course points in RWGPS and after export the 'name' of these points are always truncated to 10 chars.

Yes, the text displayed for the Course Point is the CoursePoint element  "Name" in the .Fit or .TCX file created from RWGPS or other planning site.

If the cue is generated by RWGPS the "name" will generally be the street name for a turn but limited to 10 characters because older Garmins only displayed 10 characters, the 1040 now displays 15 but RWGPS has not changed.

If you have a paid RWGPS membership you can modify the cue and / or create custom cues and these can have longer names.[PS BUT these get truncated to 10 characters when course is exported, will have to ask RWGPS support about this]  Just to confuse things the RWGPS form field that will become the XML Name is called "Notes" and the "Description" field will become the XML "Notes" field

If all else fails you can just edit the TCX XML with a text editor (like Notepad++)

Hope that helps

ps, you might want to limit the name as the WPT NEXT field text is bigger for shorter names and “street” etc is a bit redundant anyway.

Thanks for your detailed response. I appreciate all your entries in this forum and have learnt a lot from them.

I do have a paid RWGPS membership (have had for many years). I do create custom cues in RWGPS (mainly for non navigation points like Water, Food, Hut locations, etc). However, whenever I export to TCX the Course Point 'Names' always truncate to 10 Chars. I understand that old/some Garmin devices could only handle 10 chars.

When I saw your screen prints with 'Macleay Street' ,  I thought how is that

I considered writing some sort of script to run over the exported TCX and transpose 15 chars from the Notes Field over the top of the Name field..   but Im trying to make my life less complicated and just get on with riding my bike 

"Just riding the bike" is the important bit. I will have to check, I mostly use RWGPS as my club has a club account. I have some courses with greater than 10 character course point names but I might have used another site (use Garmin Connect infrequently, mostly to smooth courses I will use on my indoor trainer and Plotaroute occasionally) or even just edit the XML

This is gold. Thanks a lot