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User manual: Text describing simultaneous edit of several dives

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Text describing how to edit more than one dive that are selected in
the dive list.

Notice how I take nearly 20 lines to describe something that Linus
described effectively and succinctly in 4 lines.

Signed-off-by: Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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@ -672,8 +672,8 @@ information displayed.
*Air/water temperatures*: Air and water temperatures during the dive are shown
in these fields to the right of the Start time. Many dive computers supply water
temperature information and this field may therefore not require further
editing. If air temperature is not provided by the dive computer, the first temperature reading
temperature information and this field may therefore contain information obtained from the dive computer.
If air temperature is not provided by the dive computer, the first temperature reading
might be used for the air temperature. Generally this is close enough to the real air temperature as
the change in the temperature sensor reading is quite slow to follow the changes in the environment.
If editing is required, only a value is required, the units of temperature will be
@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ at the appropriate place, the green bar disappears and the coordinates are
stored.
b. The user can obtain the coordinates from the _Subsurface_ Companion app if
an Android device with GPS was used and the if the coordinates of the dive site
an Android device with GPS was used and if the coordinates of the dive site
were stored using that device.
xref:S_Companion[Click here for more information]
@ -843,6 +843,32 @@ with two types of weights: integrated as well as a weight belt:
image::images/WeightsDataEntry3.jpg["FIGURE: A completed weights information table",align="center"]
==== Editing several selected dives simultaneously
After uploading dives from
a dive computer, the dive profiles of the uploaded dives are shown in the *Dive profile* tab, as well
as a few items of information
in the *Dive Notes* tab (e.g. water temperature) and in the *Equipment* tab (e.g. gas pressures
and gas composition). However the other fields remain empty.
It may be useful to simultaneously edit some of the
fields in the *Dive Notes* and *Equipment* tabs. For instance, it is possible
that a diver performed several dives during a single day, using identical equipment while diving at the same
dive site or with the same dive master and/or buddy or tags. Instead of completing the information for each
of these dives separately, one can select all the dives for that day in the *Dive List* and
insert the same information in the *Dive Notes* and *Equipment* fields that need
identical information. This is achieved by editing the dive notes or the equipment for any one
of the selected dives.
The simultaneous editing only works with fields that do not already contain information.
This means that, if some fields have been edited for a particular dive among the selected dives,
these are not changed while
editing the dives simultaneously. Technically, the rule for editing several dives simultaneously is:
if the data field being edited contains _exactly the same information_ for all the dives that have been
selected, the new, edited information is substituted for all the selected dives, otherwise only the
edited dive is
changed, even though several dives have been selected in the *Dive List*. This greatly speeds
up the completion of the dive log after several similar dives.
==== Adding Bookmarks to a dive
Many divers wish to annotate their dives with text that indicate particular events