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Beta Testing / v1.7 and the Forerunner

« on: April 14, 2004, 05:09:47 PM »

A few more comments on your comments........

(a) Your rational for multiple files make sense to me now…. Thanks I agree… However, from the Forerunner point I still think it would be nice to have to some way to ‘auto save’ each new download.

The ideal would be if Topofusion could remember the last file/run that was previously ‘saved’, and only save-off the new runs/files stored in the Forerunner (e.g. I currently store up a weeks worth of runs, before I download them into the logbook at the end of the week). An automatic filename could be based on the date the run/file was stored in the Forerunner (e.g. 040414_01, 040414_02, 040415_01, etc for runs on the 14th April 2004 and 15th April 2004). Obviously each file would have to be read to obtain the encoded date.

Also one thing I have notice is that Topofusion needs download ALL the runs/files stored in the Forerunner, before I can select the last few runs/files I wish to save. As my run/file history starts to build up in my Forerunner, the process of saving only the new runs/files into Topofusion is going to start taking a long time.
 
(b) and © would be nice but not as important as (a) above.

(d) The ‘summary’ data field within the logbook dialog is the most logical (and best) place for user notes. While reviewing the logbook entries, it would be nice not having to use multiple button presses to view users notes – also allowing user notes in the ‘summary’ field would avoid this.

My suggestions aim to help make a good product even better.

AndyB
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Beta Testing / v1.7 and the Forerunner

« on: April 06, 2004, 07:04:03 PM »

Just tried Version 1.7 and here are a few initial items that I would 'ideally' to see in Topofusion for the Forerunner.....(probably the only items left that I ‘like’ about the Garmin Logbook product!).

(a) Downloading tracks/runs in the Gramin Logbook is very simple. It knows what are the new tacks/runs and just downloads them automatically with a single button press (i.e. no asking for file-names it just downloads new tracks and appends to the current logbook file). I like the idea of automatically appending each new track/runs into a single file (e.g. “Andrew’s 2004 Running.gpx”) but still having the ability to manage/view each track/run individually (i.e. logbook and viewing of tracks/runs still shows each individually). Maybe this can be done with version 1.7 now and I just have not found it out yet. The fallback option would be to have Topofusion automatically generate filenames based on run date?

(b) I do like the 'Windows Explorer' GUI design in the Garmin Logbook software for displaying automatically rollup of weekly/monthly/yearly totals. Topofusion is more flexible in allowing selection of start and end-dates for summaries, but for most users a automatic weekly/monthly/yearly totals display would be more user friendly, and mirror the on-board Forerunner history feature.

© I don’t see any download of ‘calories’ data in Topofusion…. It’s a pity not to include this data in the logbook

(d) In the logbook summary text screen I intuitively tried to enter free text (e.g. a few personal notes about the run), but it did not seem to allow this??

(e) The ability to print logbook summaries would be very nice…….admittedly the Gramin Logbook does not have this either.

In all other aspects Topofusion is a much superior product than the Gramin Logbook software, but for the increasing number of folks buying the Garmin Foerunner the ability to downloading all new tacks/runs into Topofusion with a single mouse click would be a big help.