Introduce "extended area" object

Suggestion and Feature Requests
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1

Not sure if that would be the correct wording, but let me explain what I’m thinking of.

I have split all my yard to different areas as the grass grows differently in various places requiring more frequent / less frequent mowing, there are different terrain conditions requiring different mowing height etc. We all know that.
And to mow some logical area there might be need to draw several dead-ends and it’s logical to mow those deadends together with the area.

So, let’s imagine I have Area 1 and together with that area I want to mow also deadend1 and deadend2. And then I have Area 2 and together with that one I want to mow deadend3 and deadend4.

So, to create a work plan to mow Area A, I have to select the area and both deadends, Same logic goes to create a work plan to mow Area B.
But If I want to create a work plan to mow both areas, I have to select bost areas and all 4 deadends.

So, imagine I have ~ 10 areas and for some of them are 15 deadends, for some less, for some none.

Now If I want to somehow combine them in several work plans, every time I create a work plan, I have to remember which deadends belongs to the areas I want to put in work plan and select them.

If there would be some other “Compiled area” object with deadends included, then creating work plans would be easier by just selecting the compiled area objects and that would automatically include deadends ‘belonging’ to those areas.

Hope this all mumbe made some sense and I delivered the message.

2

Couldn’t you name the dead ends A1, A2, A3 etc and also name the areas the same?

Example:
Area 1 (A1)
Area Name: A1-Back Yard

Dead End (DE) Names:
A1-DE1-Air Conditioner
A1-DE2-Trash Cans

This way it would be easier to remember which goes with what and I can’t remember if it is, but might be listed alphabetically.

3

I do name them with my own logic, but still i can’t quickly craft a work to mow several areas because i have to click dozens of deadends.

If your yard consists of 3 or 4 areas, then it’s easy to pre-craft all potential work plans and just use them, but i have way more and more potential combinations I’d like to mow.

4

Seems like they could expand on labeling and filtering to probably achieve this fairly easily.

5

… or just a possibility to launch multiple work plans together.
So, for example, I define each area + deadends as separate work plans and then when needed I just select which workplans to run sequentially.

6

Yeah, that’s what I was going to suggest allow selecting other workplans for nesting within a larger workplan​:+1::+1:

7

I can totally understand your point, and thanks for the detailed explanation. I can see how managing multiple areas and deadends in different work plans can become complicated.

If more users share the same interest, I’ll help pass the feedback to our product team for consideration.