Is there a way to upload One-off records?
I tried the trap import route but that creates a trap device called “One-off: whatever”. That is completely different behaviour from what the app does when one creates a One-off Record from there.
@j40gryphon what is it that’s looking different in your one-off records? I went back and looked at mine, and they do seem to show up in “manage traps” as if they were a trap called one-off record. I’m assuming you set the trap type as one-off as well? The main difference I’ve noticed between one-offs and normal traps is I can’t assign one-offs to a line.
One-off records are different from trap records.
The first record is a normal trap record. It required that a trap already exist (T1) before it could be created. The second record is a one-off record from the app. Notice that the “Trap Type” is automagically created as “One-off record: Shooting”. (But this doesn’t create an actual device; it’s just an internal concept.)
They contain different information as well: the trap record has bait details, trap condition, strikes, and the lat/long is the location of the trap, whereas the one-off record has the control method, count, and the lat/long is the location of the one-off event.
At present I can find no means of uploading a One-off Control record.
Trap Import allows you to import One-off events, but it creates a “trap” for each event and does not have any concept of a record with content like ‘counts’ or ‘species caught’. Plus it clutters up your project with non-existent “traps”.
Trap record import requires a pre-existing trap before you can import a record. So there’s no way to describe a one-off event (including lat/long) in that format. And it also demands ‘trap status’, ‘rebaited’, etc., etc. which do not exist in a true One-off record.
If I want to import data from an existing project that includes one-off events (shooting, road kill, etc.) there is no means to do this other than manually one-by-one with the app or on the website.
Can we get an import mechanism for one-off records?
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