Grouping and managing dive logs

[Attilla de Groot]

> On 28 Sep 2020, at 08:51, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
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> On 2020/09/27 20:29, Attilla de Groot via subsurface wrote:
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>> On September 27, 2020 20:18:49 Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 4:59 PM Attilla de Groot via subsurface <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
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>>> You can add a trip (or multiple trips) manually, and add selected dives to the trip. Choose the dives you want to group together, click right button within the selection and choose create trip above. This should group all the selected dives together. (Not sure if it works if there is a different trip in between the dives, but it should be easy to test out.)
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>> I've tested that part, but then the local dives get added to the trip in between. I can create a trip for each period between my actual trips, but it would be nice to have my local dives grouped together. 
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>> -- Attilla 
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> The dive log is supposed to be a chronological sequence of dives. Tagging and filtering is designed to view groups of dives in any arbitrary way, exactly as in your requirement. I understand it's time consuming to add tags (I have had to do it myself), but if one requires additional functionality from the dive log,  the time invested in adding tags to historic dives is worth it.


Sure, I understand how I can use the tagging and filtering to find the appropriate logs. The documentation however states:

"For regular divers, the dive list can rapidly become very long. Subsurface can group dives into trips.”

I would argue that the feature doesn’t cover reality since not every dive necessarily is part of a trip and you would still want to group them to prevent having a long list of dives (as shown in my earlier screenshot). I can imagine other use-cases as well, but at the end of the day having the ability to group discontiguous log entries gives more flexibility.


— Attilla