I’m trying to enter bait station records where there are two types of bait present in the station simultaneously - one standard bait and one new experimental bait which was tested out while the usual pulse was underway. I’d thought that if I just put in two visit records (one for each bait type) that the website might match the bait types up for me and the bait-taken would all work out OK, but it looks like this is not the case. Can anyone suggest how I enter this data so that the ‘bait taken’ amounts come out correctly?
I’d be super interested to know this. I usually use multi baits.
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Easiest way for the moment might be to add a collocated bait station of the same type and record your specific bait takes against each. Not ideal but may suffice for your experiment period?
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Thanks @andy.saunders-admin! I’ve got about 50 stations of mixed types that were part of that bait trial, so I’m definitely going to use the website tools for this rather than going one by one via the app! For anyone else in the same situation, here are some useful help article links:
- Download current station locations
- Use Excel tools to add a word/letter to the station name to differentiate the two (so you can be sure to add data to the correct station each time). If you aren’t confident on Excel (or don’t have many stations) of course you can edit them one at a time, but if you know how to add/delete columns, fill, etc., and have a lot of stations, this way turns “BS_A1” into “BS_A1 new bait trial” much faster!
- Bulk-import the ‘new’ stations
- Split the existing bait records between the two sets of names in a spreadsheet, then import it all in one go
- If you’ve finished with the second set of stations, you can retire multiple installations at once to clean up your map
I’m not sure whether these tools are available at all permission levels - if not, any trappers may need to ask their project admin to do the importing (or ask to be temporarily given extra permissions).
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