Edit activity name and description

You can now edit the activity name, description, type and the commute and trainer flags from within Intervals.icu and changes will show up in Strava.

You need to give Intervals.icu permission to update your activities using the “Connect with Strava” button if you haven’t already done so.

The activity description is now displayed in the notes area and is also editable:

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You mean anew, or will the old permission(s) still work?

If that “Connect with Strava” button shows up that means your current permissions do not permit editing activities. Intervals.icu never asked for this in the past because it didn’t need it. Now it asks for it when you first signup but some people might untick the box.

Got it - it shows up when you want to edit it…

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@david Can you add an option to automatically update the ride description in Strava with the ‘from David emails’ you set a new PB 1m, 5m 1hr etc, Would be good to get some Intervals.icu tags on rides too :slight_smile:

I would love to do that but I can’t do it for everyone. It uses up an extra Strava API call for every activity and Strava are not responding to rate limit increase requests at the moment. I might be able to do something for people active in the last week. I need to look see how many activities that group uploads every day.

If I want to have a person diary and not update Strava…how do I proceed?

One thing that would be great with respect to the descriptions – would be to display descriptions in the Notes sidebar including their lineareres, empty lines, etc.:wink: The current „everything in one long Spaghetti go“ is hard to disentangle :-o

You can write notes on the activity instead of editing the description:

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If I add something to the description does it replace any description that’s currently on Strava, it does it append?

Thanks! You know the advantage of the description was that I can see it in list mode and as such quickly read through the last month or so.
For the chat notes I need to open every ride…well :man_shrugging:

Maybe one way would be to make edits of the description possible and people like me just don’t give the authorization to write to Strava.

It replaces.

@Sina_Eetezadi Aha. I see the problem. Intervals tries to keep the description in sync with Strava so just not writing it back isn’t quite enough. Probably need to add an option to the Strava box in settings.

ChaseTheLadder updates the description post ride as well, but it appends to anything already there. My assumption is that it reads what’s already there, stores that locally, does a description_string = old_string + new_string sort of operation and writes it back.

But I agree that it might be nice to have an option to append to what’s already there or to replace it.

Thanks!

I think it would be nice to also explain what happens. I didn’t expect that and wrote about a personal health condition in the description which then updated the public profile and well…not too dramatic but wasn’t really my intention.

Sorry about that. I have added a warning to the dialog:

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Wow, thats so cool that your are so responsive and fast. You got yourself a new supporter! :pray:

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Hi David
Doesn’t work for me
I checked permissions
I changed the description but Strava description has not changed
It’s for a yesterday’s activity
Thanks

Ah that activity is from Garmin Connect so Strava is not updated when the description changes.

In fact it’s on the two :wink:
How did you choose the source when Garmin and Strava are declared .Garmin is the first priority? which woud be OK for me. And Strava just a link ? on the fly when clicking on “view on Strava” ?

I will publish a new translation PR . 2 questions
In the popup ‘Change Activity name’ the word ‘Trainer’ means it ‘Training’ =‘Entrainement’ and not "Home trainer’ = ‘Trainer’’
A lot of terms in the .json file are single words. And some are used in various context . There is a risk that the translation will not be correct for all contexts

Yes Garmin and other sources have priority over Strava. When a Strava activity is discarded or replaced because a higher priority activity exists the Strava ID is stored on higher priority activity so it can be linked back to Strava as well as its own site. The name and some other fields are also copied from the Strava activity because people tend to update that sort of thing on Strava.

Tx for help with i18n! I am always adding new keys so the translations get out of date quickly. But it is better than supporting only English. And tx to everyone for helping with the translations.