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Print workout schedule in calendar format enhancement #54

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It would be nice if the plug-in were able to present or export the workout 
schedule in a calendar format, i.e. what you see in the classic calendar on the 
wall. It would have boxes big enough to display the workouts scheduled for that 
day, perhaps using codes to condense the text. It would be display only, and 
not data entry.

The option (suggested by another user) to create an ICAL export file is 
probably the most flexible option, and would give me the ability to import the 
schedule into a familiar format (Outlook calendar).

I believe a lot of users are like me, they relate better to visual or graphic 
displays of information.

Thanks for considering this. This is a great plug-in!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by d...@aretesys.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 10:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sorry, meant to make this an enhancement request and not a defect.

Original comment by d...@aretesys.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 10:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This may be a limitation of SportTracks and not the Garmin Fitness plugin, but 
producing a calendar similar to what happens in Polar Personal Trainer 5 for 
planned activities would be ideal.  I've attached a screen grab from my PPT5 
calendar as an example.  The planned activities sit in the calendar and when an 
actual activity is completed that gets added to the date, to compare planned 
vs. actual.  I don't think SportTracks actually has a planned vs. actual 
capability, so I'm not sure the Garmin Fitness plugin could actually do that.  

What would be a nice workaround is if the plugin itself maintained a calendar 
of all planned activity and then allowed that calendar to be exported, either a 
day at a time, month at a time, or whole calendar, to iCal format for view in 
calendar apps (OMB's Activity Reports plugin does something like this in terms 
of exporting, but without the choice of day/month/year/calendar for export 
range).

Additionally - and again, a plugin may not be able to do this - it would be 
nice to have the calculations that PPT5 does, i.e. you input "run 8 miles @ 
7:30 pace" and the plugin automatically calculates the total planned time for 
the run, or "run 30 minutes @ 7:30 pace" and the plugin calculates the total 
planned distance based on those parameters.  Then this summary calculation 
could be added to the main "subject" line of the calendar export, so a quick 
glance tells you the name of the workout and the anticipated length/time.

Finally, it would be great to have the workout steps displayed in the "notes" 
field of the calendar export so that when I view a particular day in my 
calendar I see:

Warmup: 1 mile @ HR Zone 2
Stretch: Go until I press lap
Tempo: 5 miles @ 7:55 - 8:05 per mile
Cooldown: 1 mile @ HR Zone 2

Some of those requests are pie in the sky, but you have my donation and you'll 
gladly get another donation (or two!) if you can do this.

Original comment by Stuart.W...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 1:17

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I thought some of what I suggested might be confusing, so I created a sample in 
Outlook and took a screen grab.

Basically, the name of the workout goes into the Subject line.  The Location is 
made up the names of the steps with the step duration in parentheses.  The 
notes section has the steps.  Each step is preceded by "Step #" and then the 
name of the step, the duration, and appropriate target information (i.e. if my 
target is an HR zone, it would say "@ HR Zone X", if it is a speed or cadence, 
it would say the appropriate pace or cadence info.

Hope that helps with the visuals and the mapping of fields in the plugin to 
fields in the export.

Original comment by Stuart.W...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 1:27

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
With the others, would love some calendar support.  However, as an alternate, 
even a summary "Future workout list" would be nice.  Something where I can see 
all the scheduled workouts without having to click the calendar within 
Sporttracks.  Thanks.

Original comment by ed.clark...@gmail.com on 26 Apr 2011 at 8:09