Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Tips N Tricks : Easy Logging with Template Dives



We sometimes get asked if we support "Equipment Groups" or a way to mark a bunch of "things" at once for a particular dive. We do!

What we suggest is this. When you go on a trip and start to log your first dive, you will mark all the things that are specific to that particular trip. So not only the set of equipment you are using for likely the majority of dives on the trip, but also the amount of weight you use, all the Environmental conditions like salt/fresh water or shore/boat, any tags you're using (aka Dive Types), set the City/Boat and Country, set the Buddys you're diving with, etc etc …. so set everything you can think of.

Then, just copy this dive for all the subsequent dives! All that information will be copied so you don't have to set it again. Woo Hoo! You can always copy that dive and then change whatever is particular to the next dive. And, if you keep refining it and adding more information, you can just copy the latest version.

If you're doing this on the Desktop, just select a dive and under the "Action Menu" (the little gear wheel next to the Edit button), just select "Duplicate Dive".

If you're doing this on your iOS device, just navigate to the main dive list and touch the "+" button in the top right. You'll be prompted to add the new dive from either an empty dive, the last dive, or you can choose any particular dive as a template.

One variation of this is to log a dive as your "base" dive. Say you regularly dive at home and use a bunch of, let's say cold water gear and shore dive. If you go on a warm water trip, you can do the above and create a new template dive for that trip. But at home you want a different template and just have it always available. You can just select an older dive to use, or, what some users have suggested is to create a dive #0 (zero), and then just always use that to copy from.

Hope that helps you to be more efficient!



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