Continuous Riding seems not properly tested?

Bart V said:

this is only going to be useful for multi-stage rides that are continuous to begin with.

I never expected anything else.
 

Bart V said:

it appears as a long straight line between the two locations (in my case the UK and Switzerland), which is completely lame

And this is one of the reasons. 

Bart V said:

Obviously, it should have displayed as two separate unconnected rides

Which would make it useless for those who want longer, single rides recorded. 

Not saving between every film in playlist gives me more motivation to complete the full list of films. The long straight line with films not joining can be zoomed into the start and finish to see the route before/after the transition.

There was a post when the playlists started in TDA a couple of Years ago. The replies were “ Why did you Save after the 1st Film?”

I would not worry; this feature is supposed to be for the multi-stage long rides only; if it's not just now, then it will be eventually. Obviously, you can't have 1000s of riders posting to Connect & Strava lines going around the globe...it would create a tsunami of complaints. 

I can see the motivational issue. But the correct approach would have been to do a continuous transition while you are riding, but still save it as two separate activities, unless the route is a spatially continuous course. That's exactly what I mean by doing a test of this before putting it out. I think this community has pretty good advise on things like this, but in this case Tacx/Garmin didn't give us a chance and rushed to put it out there.

Perhaps it is supposed to be for the multi-stage long rides, but right now there are not many of those. The available playlists and challenges have a large majority of sequences that will display as long straight lines. And the feature is out there now in the production version for everyone to use it.

Bart V said:

Perhaps it is supposed to be for the multi-stage long rides, but right now there are not many of those. The available playlists and challenges have a large majority of sequences that will display as long straight lines. And the feature is out there now in the production version for everyone to use it.

Thats a shame, it would have been a very popular feature. oh well. 

There is a whole list of different ways to solve this, such as exception code to split the .fit data being fed to Garmin Connect (split if Lat/long is outside say 5km between data points), check boxes that would be active or not to the customer's need, batch files that can list which rides are safe to join & which are not in the back end,  a separate type of Challenge called say 'Grand Tours' which would simply make every long multi-stage ride into a Challenge... My favorite would have been a batch file as this would also enable the app at some point to show the profile of the entire long ride in the menu....Its kind of obvious you would want to see the profile of the Raid Pyrenees or the Alpine Classic as a whole & at least your progress so far if you are doing it in parts....such things are all obvious when typing in here, but Im sure they have properly discussed all these options.. I suspect they left this because another feature in development will offer a better solution. 

Bart V said:

but still save it as two separate activities

Avoids the straight map line but defeats the object of not saving between films. The Challenges/Playlist are now a continuous ride in different Countries/Cities (Beta Team Favourites) .Train as fitness/time allows. The straight line is the journey to next film. Zoom into start /finish to see the route. 

Phil70 said:

Thats a shame, it would have been a very popular feature. oh well. 

FWIW, I really don't care what it looks like on Connect or Strava after the fact. There have been calls for longer Tacx rides and this satisfies that demand. For the multi-stage, contiguous tours, it's now possible to ride any distance one wants without having to stop, save, start a new ride. Sure, there are some tweeks that would be nice-to-have's (like a complete route overview) but, to misquote Voltaire, we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Thankfully there's an on/off switch. 

Maybe each playlist needs an indicator showing whether or not it is one contiguous route