New big update

All the source code for Sportaxy platform was updated to the newest technologies.
Previously only the server-side code was upgraded.

Now all the client side code was upgraded to using the major ES6 features. Webpack was added to bundles the assets for client side.

This changes actually touched every single line of code, so it might created some unexpected behaviors. If you believe something works incorrectly, let us know and we'll fix it!

New features for sportaxy

Some new updates as promised.

1. Search for competitions is greatly improved with filters by date, sport, etc.
2. Search for people is slowly moved to the main search bar
3. When people plan to do competitions, they are shown in the timeline
4. Automatic deployment is set up. Now the builds are going in a much more organized fashion

Sportaxy to continue

In the last several weeks, sportaxy was being updated to the newest technologies. Soon you will see new features. Also, a mobile app is coming ... Don't hesitate to post the features, you believe are important!

Moving forward

Lately, several users have experienced issues with account activation.

Fortunately, the problems were fixed now.

Happy sportaxying! Stay fit and strong and ... train smart!

Export of events as ICS/iCal file

Long waited feature for many people.

You can export now your future events (plans and competitions) as .ics files and to add them to a calendar program you use (iCal, Google Calendar, etc.). We export nearest 60 plans and 20 competitions starting from the current date.

Here is what I did for myself.

1. I exported calendar data from Sportaxy. I've got a .ics file and clicked on it.

2. I created a calendar "Sportaxy" in my iCalendar (on Mac) program and used it for sportaxy events:

Enjoy! Hope it's a useful feature for you!!

Import of .csv files into Sportaxy

You can import your training data as CSV (comma separated value) files into Sportaxy.
Here is an example CSV format:

"(0)#" "(1)Time" "(2)Satellites" "(3)Heart rate" "(4)Speed (km/h)" "(5)Longitude" "(6)Latitude" "(7)Elevation" "(8)Direction" "(9)Distance (km)"
00001 "2013-04-15 11:25:37" 5 0 "0.0" "8.5098316" "47.4140300" "469" 12 "0.00"
00002 "2013-04-15 11:25:41" 5 95 "0.5" "8.5098125" "47.4140420" "469" 307 "0.00"
00003 "2013-04-15 11:25:45" 5 101 "1.2" "8.5097362" "47.4140641" "469" 289 "0.01"
00004 "2013-04-15 11:25:49" 5 103 "1.8" "8.5096383" "47.4140749" "469" 299 "0.02"
00005 "2013-04-15 11:25:53" 5 100 "2.3" "8.5095483" "47.4141028" "469" 315 "0.02"
00006 "2013-04-15 11:25:57" 5 100 "2.7" "8.5095270" "47.4141345" "470" 345 "0.03"
00007 "2013-04-15 11:26:01" 5 110 "3.1" "8.5094945" "47.4142987" "470" 349 "0.05"
00008 "2013-04-15 11:26:05" 5 110 "3.3" "8.5094179" "47.4145562" "470" 343 "0.07"
00009 "2013-04-15 11:26:09" 5 107 "10.2" "8.5092133" "47.4148654" "469" 323 "0.11"
00010 "2013-04-15 11:26:13" 5 107 "11.7" "8.5088458" "47.4151424" "469" 313 "0.15"
00011 "2013-04-15 11:26:17" 5 103 "13.7" "8.5084437" "47.4154170" "469" 313 "0.20"
00012 "2013-04-15 11:26:21" 5 89 "15.7" "8.5080329" "47.4156662" "468" 309 "0.24"
00013 "2013-04-15 11:26:25" 5 89 "18.2" "8.5076212" "47.4158833" "468" 306 "0.28"
00014 "2013-04-15 11:26:29" 5 93 "20.3" "8.5072308" "47.4160804" "467" 307 "0.31"
00015 "2013-04-15 11:26:33" 6 96 "22.5" "8.5068745" "47.4162799" "466" 310 "0.35"
00016 "2013-04-15 11:26:37" 6 90 "24.1" "8.5066641" "47.4164195" "465" 334 "0.37"
00017 "2013-04-15 11:26:41" 6 109 "24.4" "8.5066853" "47.4165795" "464" 18 "0.39"
00018 "2013-04-15 11:26:45" 5 113 "24.1" "8.5068299" "47.4168562" "463" 20 "0.42"
00019 "2013-04-15 11:26:49" 6 99 "23.6" "8.5069704" "47.4171866" "462" 3 "0.46"

New improvements: From/To for events and Share

Added several features that were long requested.

Now for every event you can specify when it started (from) and when it finished (to).
The order of events in a calendar will be adapted automatically.
(This info is extracted automatically from uploaded files)

You can also share events on Facebook/Google+/Twitter. But you have to make them public first.

Ever wondered how Sportaxy is being developped?

Here you go!! :) Sportaxy workflow ...

Sport activities of your friends are displayed

Check out what your friends did ...

Redesign of event popups + extended sports support

1. Popups to add and update events are redesigned, hopefully it's better now
2. File uploading is done the same way as normal events with possibility to add and remove events directly from the file upload window
3. Big redesign of sport event concepts.
Every sport might have few additional fields now (see picture). If you need some more fields for your sport, let us know. Later it will be possible to see statistics in the graphs:

Support for organizations and teams creation

Organizations can create teams and assign coaches and athletes to every team.

1. Register at Sportaxy as an Organization

2. Invite people to your organization

3. Create a team and assign people to the team as coaches or athletes

4. Coaches will see team athletes in their calendars and athletes will see their coaches.

New version of polarpersonaltrainer supported

Polar introduced new changes to their exported files.

Now Sportaxy can extract these new file format and process the heart rate and elevation.
I also asked polar to add latitude and longitude to these files so that the position on the map can be tracked.

Here is how it works:

I. Extract an xml file from polar

II. Upload the xml file to Sportaxy and add workouts

III. Open the created event and click on "View" button

IV. See you heart rate and elevation. I hope polar will add latitute/longitude soon.

Small improvements for file upload

When you upload a file, you can
1. directly remove exercises if they are not needed
2. Input the description

3 new sub-sports for climbing added

Bouldering
Lead climbing
Speed climbing

Polar Personal Trainer fileuploads

Added support for Polar Personal Trainer fileuploads.

If you use a new version of polar device, it sends your data to polarpersonaltrainer.com. You can export the file as an *.xml file and upload it to sportaxy.

Make sure you set your training zones in polarpersonaltrainer same as in Sportaxy.

Plus several small bugs fixed!

Welcome new interface

Well, I guess you noticed the changes yourself :)

Hope you like it better. There also some convenience improvements and
bug fixes. The coloring scheme was changed, it might take some time to adapt ..

The main goal is to simplify and make the interaction easier and more efficient.

The improvements for file uploading is next ...

New sports added: basketball, volleyball, etc.

As requested by some people - new sports. Enjoy!

Sharing of events on Facebook and other social networks

Want to share your events on Facebook?

This is how it works:
1. Make your event public "Visibility: Public"

2. Click on the "View event" button that will open your event

3. Copy the url of the event and add it on Facebook.
You should see something like this

Copy events from your friends

You can now copy events from the calendars of your friends into your own calendar.

For example, I see a race event in the calendar of my friend "Marathon Lausanne". I also want to do it, so I just click to open the context menu and choose "Copy to my calendar". I go back to my calendar and it's there.

You can do it with other events: plans, workouts, etc.

NodeJS for Sportaxy

This weekend I put into production the new NodeJS framework for Sportaxy that I was working on for some time now. Basically the site consists now of two parts:
1. new part is implemented in NodeJS
2. the old part is in Rails

I will be gradually rewriting the old Rails part in the new framework. I m also doing many visual changes and adding some new functionality, so for some time there might be some inconsistencies between old and new interface and, maybe, slowness in page loading.

If you see any bugs or problems, please let me know...