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The
Group Observations Spreadsheet application
is very similar to
Group Observations,
but provides a spreadsheet type of interface
for conveniently changing many values in one session.
For a description of search and other features common to both applications, please see the Group Observations Help document. If you have any questions about this application, please contact |
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Caveats
Form Logic.
Some Weed Manager forms contain sophisticated logic
that maintains the integrity of records collected.
This includes fields that are required, and dependecies between fields.
Form logic in enforced by the Observer Pro phone applications,
and by the Plant Observation Entry (POE) web application.
For instance, a form might offer choice of type of treatment,
and when the type of treatment is set to Mechanical,
other fields open up which concern details of that mechanical treatment.
This spreadsheet application does not implement any form logic. Using this application, it is possible to circumvent any such form logic, and to produce records which do not meet the data integrity constraints contained in a form. In order to preserve the data integrity constraints of your forms, the best thing will be to not use this application, but instead to use POE to edit records, or to use the batch edit feature of Group Observations to make changes to several records at the same time. Restore from Backup. Calflora keeps a daily backup of all data. It is a slow and expensive process to retrieve data from that backup. With that in mind, please be careful about changes you make to your data. |
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Who Can Edit
A Data Czar in the selected group can use this application
to edit any record in the group. To edit, check EDIT
(on the right below the map).
A member of a group can use this application to edit their own records. To search for just your own records, check only my records. |
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Navigation
To use this application, first do a search to find
the records you might want to edit.
Click on
Click in the white box on the far left of the table to bring up a menu of actions for a particular record. Click on edit to edit the record in POE. When EDIT is checked, you can edit the results. To begin editing a cell value, either 1. click the mouse on that cell, or 2. use the arrow keys to move to that cell, and press <ENTER>. When you are finished editing the cell, click on another cell, or press <ESCAPE>. | |||||||
Saving Changes
If you changed the value of a cell, a blue SAVE dialog appears in the
lower right of the screen. This dialog says how many records have
been changed. Press when you are ready to save
your changes.
Some fields are not editable from this application, such as the record ID, and Latitude and Longitude. There is error checking on some fields, such as Root (the root record ID). The value you put into the Root field must be a valid record number. If you enter an erroneous value, you will not be able to save changes until you correct it. | |||||||
RELEASE NOTES:
March, 2018: v. 0.58: |