Can we have the most likely option come up in the catch tab for example when checking a possum trap the first option should be a possum
Autofill or first selected bait - for example if previous trap was PB can it autofill or have first option PB. This would help a lot of scrolling which you want to avoid doing while in the field
DOC 200 Doubles - This is checking one trap but in the app a trapper has to fill two entries, A large majority of the kiwi programs use double set traps which makes the app slower than it should be.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Iâll pass them on to the dev team
Re: DOC 200 Doubles - some folks have these setup as two separate traps at the same location - this can most easily be done by using the âAdd collocated installationâ button on the app when you click on a double trap.
Can we have the most likely option come up in the catch tab for example when checking a possum trap the first option should be a possum
From v4.1.3 you can keep a shortlist of species to save you from scrolling. We are likely to add the species taxonomy to the Project Categories (link off the project home page) so you can define the available species from a project level.
Autofill or first selected bait - for example if previous trap was PB can it autofill or have first option PB. This would help a lot of scrolling which you want to avoid doing while in the field
Again you can keep a shortlist of lures to save scrolling. Also it does pre-fill the previous lure used, unfortunately it does not yet do it per trap type. This is on the radar however.
DOC 200 Doubles - This is checking one trap but in the app a trapper has to fill two entries, A large majority of the kiwi programs use double set traps which makes the app slower than it should be.
Technically it is two traps in one box so from a data perspective things are correct, however yes we can make some improvements on the interfaces to speed things up in the field.
Hope that helps and many thanks for the feedback,
Andy
Ultimately we are working away from the supplementary trap concept to collocated installations (these will satisfy the ordering as you have found.)
Trappers have commented that collocated traps result in an extra form to submit which adds a few more clicks to the process. Itâs something we will take a look at as we can no doubt fix this at the form level.
Is the single-form app interface for double-set traps still on the wishlist? For double-sets (as opposed to groups of traps) it would be great to just have one icon on the map and one form on the app, with two individually-labelled dropdowns for the trap statuses but all lure info, comments, etc. cloned across into both installations. Auto-renaming of the supplementary trap if the main trap name is edited would also be handy.
Iâm keen to check on this feature-request status as one group I work with finds the two-form interface enough of a barrier to volunteer involvement in data entry that they are considering getting rid of the double-set traps from some lines. (Walk the Line hasnât worked well for this site due to poor geolocation accuracy, and Manual Complete doesnât pick up if a new trapper has inadvertently missed one or more traps.) If the single-form interface is due to roll out soon, all the effort of rearranging the traplines might not be necessary!
Kia ora @christina.g trap.nz has moved away from supplementary traps and uses collocated traps instead. This allows multiple installations in the same location, with their own forms. When installations are set up as collocated, the installations cluster on the phone to ensure there is no clutter and when tapped, spider out to show all installations at that site. Using collocated traps works well using walk the line.
@lenore-admin, as per Rolfâs initial feature request, I too was hoping that there might in future be a way to get one composite data entry form for one double-set trap box. Both supplementary and collocated traps currently generate two forms to fill out. A single-form interface specific to double-sets that can clone the always-identical fields (like lure) in the background would be a real timesaver.
While Iâm generally a fan of Walk the Line and often use it at other sites, it unfortunately just doesnât work at this one particular site - the location error is too high compared to the trap spacings. Itâs no fault of the app, even GPS accuracy is sometimes low, but as a result Walk the Line isnât viable as a data-entry-workaround for this groupâs trappers.
