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Re New WikiCamps - what am I doing wrong?


I have started a new thread since the original one is varied in its content and I think it likely that

there's others staying quietly in the background that are having problems as am I.

 

Anyway-

 

Lake argyle. Nothing comes up in search window. Find it by looking for towns. So simple in wiki 1.

Then, In "Your collections, all four collections ticked, although they have no relevance since I only

have my original hearts in Wiki 1 and general.

 

One vansite only showing on my wiki 2,  20+ on wiki 1.

 

I'm going crazy with this damned "upgrade" - can anybody take a few minutes and give me a step-

by-step setting to get - (1) my hearts, and (2) the general sites.

 

Are the heart and general sites then integrated into one or can they be separated - then the question

is how to switch back and forth simply and quickly while planning a root.

 

I'm so desperate that:

There's a choice of a full size Engel with cover that needs regassing (I think) or a Voltech ISC5040 50 amp

MPPT solar controller or a TPS 1230 Solar Controller for anybody that will take the time to sort me out.

PU on Gold Coast.

 

BRODIE

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-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Sunday 8th of December 2024 10:29:48 AM



-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Sunday 8th of December 2024 10:40:05 AM

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Hi Brodie, it's all about the filters.

Eg. Lake Argyle. To see all facilities at that location and surrounds...

Press Filter icon top right screen, scroll down to Site Type, choose Show All, choose Show results, tap Search at top of screen, type in location, choose Cities and Towns.

The town/city/location should appear on screen. You can use more specific filters like Water/Dump Point/Points of Interest etc.

With Favorites, make sure in Your collections that all four selections are ticked, then Show results... you should now see your previous favorites.

There is so much more to explore in this program!



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Thanks DickQ - did all that - got one caravan park and that's it!!
And now that I have scrolled in the van park is hundreds of k's away !

No other sign of life.

I have enabled all my Liked, visited, want to visit and starred. No result.


Is the sequence that you have so kindly enumerated for display of all, favorites, or favorites only?


I might try deleting the program and then reloading it?
shi . . ing myself that in the progress I might lose all my favorites. If they were all I could get
that would suffice for now.

Note - how many touches compared with 2 on old system - open app > search > enter.

My son will be here on Monday to bring his trailer load of my presents and he is an IT programmer.
Be interesting to see what he makes of it. He has already had a play by remote and he suggested
that it was severely broken!1 I reckon its more than that.

Again, thanks for your help.

Brodie

 

Looks like favorites only!

 

SO, NOW HOW TO SWITCH to all?

 



-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Sunday 8th of December 2024 03:48:59 PM

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Brodie Allen wrote:

I have enabled all my Liked, visited, want to visit and starred. No result.


 I believe that is the main source of your problems. Untick each of those Collection categories.

The new version shows ONLY those categories of collection when they are ticked. I think that is an odd way to do it and there will probably be enough asking for it to be changed that they will do so soon.

After turning off the 4 Collection categories, I suggest going to your filters and display everything. There is "Show all" box. Tick it and remporarily live with the clutter until you get comfortable with it, then turn off those you don't want to see. You will note there are 12 site type filters and 6 groups of subcategories to further refine what you want to see.

Then click Show Results to refresh the view.

In the Exolore view, go to the settings icon on the right hand side and untick "Hide trip routes" if it is ticked. Choose a trip to display and Save. Now you will see all sites along with the route of your planned trip. Click on a site. You can then:

  • click again for further detail or
  • click the small Add to Trip icon (a car with a + sign. You can then choose which trip to add it to) or
  • click the Heart icon and add it to whatever collection category you want.

I believe the trip planning is better than the old version but has the same fault that it does not highlight the sites you selected. Hopefully another tweak to come.

With your filters you can save different sets. You may want to show sites suitable for 4WD bush camping or a very different set of filters for caravanning.

As I said before I think it has a few warts, but it looks like a total rewrite to me, and therefore a better base for improving it.



-- Edited by Are We Lost on Sunday 8th of December 2024 05:11:56 PM

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Thanks AewWeLost.

Still struggling - I cant believe how convoluted this has become. It has to be me because the
forum isnt alive with complaints.

Tomorrow under the supervision of the IT savvy son I wil do a complete reload.

Lets see till then.

thanks again and also Dick)

B

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Hi BA, it has nothing to do with you, this latest update might have changed all the pretty colours but still does the same job in an extremely complicated way compared to the original, after checking some other forums the consensus is very negative, not all that many saying how much they love it.

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If you are a member of wikicamps, go to the chat forum on wikicamps, and find the threads written by Froghoppin, he is the resident IT specialist wikicamps member, he has written tutorials for all these latest updates, that wikicamps admin should have done, alternatively, if you are a facebook member wikicamps has a facebook page and they have all the info you need to use this complicated piece of trash, that was once a great app.

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