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The new version of the TGE APP is now available on iOS and Android, and it introduces a few new features, Venue Maps & Addresses, RSS feeds, and most blog worthy, Itinerary Sharing.
So it’s a pretty basic idea, you agonise over I am Oak vs King Charles argue over Natty vs Cloud Nothing, obsess over 22 vs Paula & Karol, etc etc. Make your choices, go to the Itinerary page in the TGE APP and hit the menu button
Upload button
Tap the upload button and you’ll see the following:
Enter your name
Enter your name or the name of your Itinerary
Tap submit and you’ll be redirected to a website that looks like this:
It's a website in an app, that's so meta!
This is a real website, I can prove it, here’s the link http://thegreatescape.grassrootsgames.co.uk/share/display.php?code=4tpltn
You can share it on Twitter or Facebook, share it via email, print it out to carry around with you, print out your friends and scribble corrections and write rude words on them, the world is really your oyster.
That’s it, itinerary shared.
Oh wait, there’s more
So once your friends have made their itineraries (which are so much worse than yours, yours is like totally the perfect one), you could print them all out and carry them round with you, you could bookmark their links (see, told you it’s a real website) but it would be best if they were just on your phone right? Also in this version of the app is the ability to download other peoples published itineraries.
First step is to take a note of their Download code, which you’ll see in the top right of the itinerary web page. Once you’ve got this, go to your Itineraries Page in the TGE APP, open the menu and tap ‘Download’
Tap the download button
I have to admit something embarrassing now, I messed up and forgot to replace the text on the back of the download screen (on iOS, on Android it’s fixed) so iOS users will see this again:
Enter your name
But what you should see (Android users will see bar the keyboard)
Enter your download code
Even though the text is wrong the functionality works as it should, so enter the Download code and tap submit, some time will pass, the download box will close and you’ll see this:
Hey a new one!
The itinerary for the code you entered is now downloaded onto your device and available with or without an internet connection, you can’t edit it, but you can update it by entering the same code again, or delete it from the menu in the itinerary.
Notes on Itinerary Sharing
Couple of quick notes
- Your itinerary is linked to your device, so you can’t make lots of itineraries (it’s a shame I know)
- Your itinerary wont keep itself up to date online automatically, if you want to update what’s on the site, upload it again
- Same goes for those you downloaded, if you want to make sure they are up to date, enter the download codes again
- The itinerary pages work great for people who can’t run the app this year, and they link in to the TGE website for Artist and Venue info (which is all the same data as the app)
- If you were to say, reinstall the app, you might find that you get a different download code, so you could potentially make as many itineraries as you like…but you didn’t hear that from me.
- Tweeting or putting your itinerary on Facebook is a good way to rekindle that argument about 22 vs Paula & Karol
That’s about it. Hope you get some enjoyment out of it and I hope it makes your Escape a little Greater!
