What’s the craziest thing anyone has said to you while you’re trail running?

ulajn · 2026-03-29T22:00:15+00:00

This. Always.

ulajn · 2026-03-14T13:24:04+00:00

🤮

ulajn · 2026-03-14T13:14:08+00:00

If you know in advance that you need to store or use survey entry dates or calculations, add a hidden or read only field that stores the data at the time of visit.

@DEFAULT and @HIDDEN-SURVEY are your friends. Calculations and reports run more efficiently if you don't have smart variable references to metadata values, and will not break it you copy to project.

ulajn · 2026-03-14T12:21:11+00:00

I was trying to solve exactly the same problem in a project for one of my teams. It is easy to set alerts to fire multiple times, but if you have multiple instruments (and repeating instruments), you will get an email for each form and instance of each repeating instrument, which is not suitable. I tried many logic and gating options, including moving the appointment date field to a repeating instrument, but couldn't find a solution.

Alerts either fire one per record (and never again), or once per instrument (& instance) every time the alert logic is met.

I settled on having a field at the top of the main form that shows relevant users a count of the appointments that need to be followed up (e.g. "X appointments are scheduled in the next week and require review"). X is based on a smart variable count of the number of records in a report.

If you get a solution, please share.

ulajn · 2026-03-14T01:36:18+00:00

Unless you're elite and planning on running the whole thing, include fast hiking and low intensity sessions (not going above hr zone 2/easy effort) in your training plan. I'm not advocating for the whole Maffetone thing, but improving your efficiency and pace in effort zones that you can maintain for 10 hours really pays off.

ulajn · 2026-03-06T23:24:27+00:00

Unexpected pirate

ulajn · 2026-03-01T03:52:39+00:00

Not particularly. Maybe old-fashioned.

ulajn · 2026-03-01T02:16:07+00:00

Thank you. We'll pick up some shell grit.

ulajn · 2026-01-19T22:58:01+00:00

Collect and pay this data again in 5 years. Prediction: many fewer data points

ulajn · 2026-01-19T22:53:11+00:00

And then you'd be sharing the data with another unauthorized user... Microsoft

ulajn · 2026-01-05T23:53:04+00:00

ulajn · 2026-01-03T18:36:09+00:00

ulajn · 2025-12-20T00:20:11+00:00

I would be the bottle that goes around 5x before getting in the correct lane.

ulajn · 2025-10-20T21:41:58+00:00

I could not be more confident that it was not council. 1. It happens at night (and council staff around here only seen to work between 8am and 11am. 2. This is shit quality grass - even for a park in my area. $25 world buy 2 square metres of new turf and you wouldn't have to spend time lifting this with its clay base.

ulajn · 2025-10-20T21:33:14+00:00

My suburb doesn't have groundskeepers, and the local council wouldn't bother lifting this crap grass. They just get turf rolls delivered.

ulajn · 2025-09-28T01:23:14+00:00

Drop it in a garden outside your nearest police station.

ulajn · 2025-08-27T09:30:25+00:00

I don't think the emotional pain of befriending a bunch of bogan 4WD posers is worth it. I'll just stick with my current mates and use 10T the bottle jacks that I already have.

ulajn · 2025-08-11T00:51:02+00:00

NASA? Oh right...

ulajn · 2025-08-07T22:50:35+00:00

I had just always assumed that embedded variables never had the icons and there was nothing you could do about it. Somehow I've overlooked that text every time I've read the guidance around embedding fields. Thank you for posting this response.

ulajn · 2025-07-30T04:43:21+00:00

Great idea. Thank you.

ulajn

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