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Locations and reference data

Two kinds of shared data sit behind your surveys and keep them consistent: the places your surveys happen, and the controlled lists your fields choose from. Both live under the Reference menu in the header.

  • Locations: a tree of your regions, drainages, waterbodies, and sites. Records bind to a place, which powers the location check and lets you browse and scope by area.
  • Reference data: the species list and any custom lookup lists that species and lookup fields validate against, so an entry is always a known value.

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Locations Build the tree of regions, waterbodies, and sites.
Access by region Scope a member to the area they work in.
Species and lists Manage the controlled lists your fields use.
Labs and partners A directory of the labs and partner organizations you work with.