The free version of the dwMap watch app offers a fixed selection of 3 pages of data fields (such Speed and Heart Rate), 4 fields to a page.
Premium allows you to choose each field on each page, and to choose how many fields are on each page. When you have fewer fields the app can use larger fonts, so you can, say, put your top 2 fields, perhaps Speed and Heart Rate, on one page for easy reading at a glance.
You choose your data fields for the app on the website in Settings. Press the Custom Data Fields button.
Choose the fields that you want show on each page. If you want to have less than 4 fields on a data page, set one or more of the choices to None.
You can also choose up to two fields to show on the Map and Navigation pages in the app. Set them both to None to remove the fields bar from the Map page to give more room to show your route.
When you are done, press Save. The app will download the change next time you start it, or you can press Refresh on its menu to get the change immediately without restarting it.
Available fields are:
- Activity Type
- Altitude
- Battery Level
- Cadence
- Cadence, Average
- Calories
- Distance
- Distance to End. Learn more (list of supported watches)
- Elevation Profile. Learn more (list of supported watches)
- GPS Signal (0-4)
- Grade (this field not recommended on watches without a barometric altimeter)
- Heading
- Heart Rate
- Heart Rate, Average
- Heart Rate, Max
- Heart Rate % Max
- Heart Rate Zone
- Lap Distance
- Lap Speed/Pace
- Lap Time
- Location
- Navigation
- Power (cycling power sensors only)
- Power, Average
- Power, Max
- Route Name
- Speed/Pace
- Speed/Pace, Average
- Speed/Pace, Max
- Time
- Time of Day
- Total Ascent
- Total Descent
- Weather - real time wind, rain, and temperature. Learn more (list of supported watches)
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such a pity it is not available as a data field, in Activity Settings (or at least it is not clearly stated). I don't want to run dwMap app INSTEAD of garmin's RUN, CYCLE and so on app
Paul -- As well as the full dwMap app, we do have a data field, called mapField.
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/8a8ccf60-2c97-443a-9daf-abd3608f2b10
https://dynamicwatch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/360001607072-mapField
Data fields are very limited in what they can do, but we've squeezed as much capability from dwMap as we can into the data field, which can be used within Garmin's Run, Bike, etc.
OK, great, but how on earth do you actually DO this? On the watch? In the app? On garmin connect? On this website? More information, please!
You configure your dwMap Premium custom data fields on the website -- go to Settings https://dynamic.watch/settings and click on the [Custom Data Fields] button. dwMap running on your watch will pick up the new field arrangement next time that it starts up (when it automatically downloads your current active route and its settings from the website).
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