Suggestions for improving your work with the library

[Reinhard Punz]

I have imported all my routes and tracklogs (800+) into the new account. Due to the new possibilities in Routeplanner Next, you can make the folder hierarchy much flatter, which is why I have restructured my library from scratch. In the process, I noticed small but helpful improvement possibilities for some processes:

1. When you open the library, a map shows all routes and tracklogs at a glance. Very cool idea, because you can see at a glance where you have been, where there is an accumulation, and where you have never been before. With a large library, it would be helpful if you could see the name of the route / tracklog if you zoom in far enough on the map.

2. If you move around the library a lot, it would speed up your work if you could open folders and see their contents without having to switch to the folder right away.

3. When editing a large number of routes and tracklogs, it would be helpful if you could change certain settings for several routes/tracklogs at the same time. For example, routing settings, vehicle assignments and the like. Currently, you can select several routes/tracklogs at the same time, but only download, move or delete them.

4. In the library, the routing setting is displayed with a vehicle icon for routes, but not for tracklogs. Yes, I know, you can filter by mode, if it is feasible, the display of the icon would still be helpful. This already works in the Android app.

5. A folder cannot be moved to another folder if there is already a folder with the same name. Of course, this makes sense. However, the system does not give any feedback and you don't know at first why it doesn't work. Please include feedback or alternatively offer to assign a unique name, for example with the addition (1).

6. The system allows you to move routes/tracklogs to the source folder, which doesn't make sense. It would be helpful if you don't get the source folder as a destination at all.

7. Is there a backup function planned, by means of which you can download the entire library structure including its contents as a backup?

[Corjan Meijerink]

Thanks for the detailed list. Restructuring 800+ routes and tracklogs is the kind of real-world use that shows where the library still has rough edges.

We've picked up three of your points, and they'll be on the beta with the next update:

4. Tracklogs in the library now show their travel-mode icon, just like routes.
5. If a folder can't be moved because the destination already has a folder with that name, you now get a message naming the folder, so you know which one to rename. We deliberately don't rename it automatically: you'd end up with "Archive" and "Archive (1)" side by side without noticing.
6. The Move dialog now marks the folder your items are already in as "current folder", and you can't pick it as the destination.

About the backup (7): you can already do most of this. A folder downloads as a zip with all its subfolders and contents. Tick your top-level folders in the library, choose Download, and you get the whole structure in one go.

We're not building the other ideas (names on the library map, looking inside a folder without opening it, changing settings for many routes at once) for now. Changing routing settings in bulk in particular would recalculate hundreds of routes in one go, and we'd rather keep that a careful, per-route step. We'll keep the ideas in mind.