#toolkit tips synchronising

Have you moved or renamed fences in the toolkit but the fences  haven’t changed on your iPhone course?

Have you added dressed photos and audio out on course on your iPhone and want them to appear in the online map on your website?

The answer is to synchronise (Upload/Download)  the course between your CrossCountry App which runs standalone on your iPhone/iPad  and the Toolkit, which runs in the cloud on your iPhone, iPad or PC. 

Am I in the app or the toolkit?

It can be confusing at first.

If you are working  on your PC or Macbook you are always in the Toolkit. 

If you are on your iPhone or iPad you could be in either the CrossCountry App or the Toolkit or simply viewing the course online. 

If you can see Minute Markers you are in the CrossCountry App (see below)

If you see the green distance and efforts box, you are in the Toolkit Editor

If you see the icons across the bottom you are either in the Toolkit Viewer or looking at the course online because you clicked through from the library or on a link someone sent you

So how do I synchronise?

This depends on whether the most recent version of the course is in your CrossCountry App or in the Toolkit

Scenario 1

My most recent version of the course is on the CrossCountry App because I just went out on course and added photos and audio with the course designer. 

So you need to upload the course from your app to the Toolkit. This will replace (overwrite) the old version in the Toolkit and you will not be able to go back to that old version.  Any changes you have made will be seen by people you have shared the link with or will appear automatically on your website if you already embedded and published the course. 

Open the course

Click the Share button

Click Upload

If you want to create a new version you need to choose Duplicate

If you have already embedded the course on your website or shared the link to e.g. your fence judges, if you create a duplicate you must re-embed or re-send the new link.

Scenario 2

My most recent version of the course is on the Toolkit because I just added fence names. 

You should download the course to your CrossCountry App so that it has the new information 

Go to toolkit.crosscountryapp.com on your iPhone or iPad. 

Find and open the course

You will see a little cloud icon. This does not appear on your PC. It only appears on a device which has got the CrossCountry App installed. 

Click the cloud icon. The course will download to CrossCountry App. If an older version was already on the app it will be overwritten.