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Add end/departure dates for multi-day stops
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Denise Kitchel
And have dates auto-adjust if the end date overlaps. If I add dates manually, and then later decide that we’re going to spend 2 days at a waypoint rather than just 1, it’ painful to have to manually adjust dates in each following waypoint.
Geez, it’s like the UI designers have never taken a roadtrip before. 🤦♀️
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Steph Ziebell
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Steph Ziebell
Hi Tammy Boyer The dates in our trip planner are currently built to reflect when you arrive, not necessarily the duration of time you’ll be at a place. While we didn't support departure dates or duration previously either, it may be more noticeable now that you can see the empty dates within your itinerary.
Having the ability to set a waypoint for more than one day or to set both arrival and departure dates is something that's on our radar and until then, we recommend using the Notes section to indicate how many days you'll be there.
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Michelle
100% agree that we need end-dates or duration settings.
My use case: We are full time and when we plan, we have waypoints we visit, and waypoints we stay at ... AND we do not always know how long we will be in a particular place. Being able to set a duration would allow us to change the "July 10 waypoint" from a single day to say, 5 days, then all following dated waypoints would auto-adjust appropriately 5 days ahead on the calendar.
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Brian
Unfortunately, I have to agree with John Mennella and Elise Moss. The new UI is indeed "painful". We have a 2-month trip with 30 waypoints we've been planning for almost a year. The latest update made it impossible for me to reason about the waypoints in relation to each other. I've had to copy all the stops over to RV Trip Wizard to make sense of it. Adding end dates and collapsing stays would help. Having a "condensed" version where each date isn't taking up a huge block of screen real estate would also help.
There's a nugget of an idea in the new UI that I like - I don't agree you "destroyed" my trip plan. Having non-routed waypoints display as planned stops inside a routed basecamp stay, is an attractive option. But it would have to be collapsible - the one giant card per day is just a terrible UX.
FWIW, I'd suggest testing out such a huge UI redesign on a subset of users first and/or always offer the option to toggle back to the old view (assuming you didn't completely redesign the backend data) going forward.
Deborah Westbrook
Brian: Agreed. Beta testing new feature/UI plus option to use old UI is helpful. Recently the bouncing waypoint stopped bouncing without any warning. Route planning using dates is painful because it is a double constraint. It is like using MS Project, which is a FT job. We use a spreadsheet calendar to plan timelines, especially for multi-week/month trips.
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dwhilsdorf
Every campsite I have to book wants to know the arrival and departure date.
A waypoint of type “stay” needs to have a duration if other dependencies are coded.
A waypoint of type “stop” should have optional dates/durations, particularly if they are around a “Basecamp stay” from which local “trips” will be launched.
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Elise Moss
I agree with John Mennella. It is now painful to scroll through a trip and when I add a waypoint, it will get added to an empty date - when I really want to see where the new waypoint is in relation to my route BEFORE I re-arrange my dates.
Heather Ransome
Elise Moss: Yes! This update has re-arranged my whole 14 month roadtrip based on location and proximity…. I know where I went and what order I went! Why are they telling me a different route? I am trying to write a book based on my travel and this update is messing up a year of work! And I need my dates; not their made up dates; why, just why???? HATE THIS UPDATE and really need previous version!
Liz C
Merged in a post:
App update
John Mennella
My route that I have put hours into is now useless because of your new update with the dates. I don't need you to account for every day of the month. You can't just go by the start dates. If I'm staying at an RV park for 5 night currently I have to input the park 5 times. Not great for me since I had a route planed all the way out to October. You destroyed me planed route. You need both start and end dates if your going to do this.
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Steph Ziebell
Merged in a post:
Waypoint Arrive & Depart Dates
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Ssquard
Setting both arrival & departure dates for hotels, B&B or stay over locations. Then day trips include returning to where you are staying instead of having to duplicate the location. This makes it easier to know day trip travel and time at a site to better plan your days & entire trips.
This can also be tied to requests to include preferred hotels since they too could need the arrival and departure date. Even staying at a family or friends’ home becomes easier to plan.
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Vermontjsa
Agree!
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