A visitor category would be nice to have. At the moment when I want a friend or a sponsor or somebody not trapping but interested in my traps I have to make them ‘manager’. Which means they could make changes. Even accidentally.
A visitor category which is seeing only would avoid that problem.
Thank you.
Robert
@Quickenberry you can use the advanced trapper permissions on the website to see everything on the website
Here’s the link to @Quickenberry’s earlier post on this topic: Trapper categories - General discussion
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Looks like there is a similar feature request to this one from back in 2022 - Add “Spectator” as a membership option - that got some votes too. Site admins/mods, is there a way that the two posts can be linked/merged so all the votes can count together?
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Dear Lenore
Thank you. That is the problem. An advanced trapper can make changes! I want an observer status. Like we have people from the council or Ecan here in Canterbury who are interested in the traps because they support our effort with grants. I do not want them to be able to change settings or numbers even accidentally. They should be able to see all installations on the computer and on the phone. Because sometimes they actually come out here to check the traps and see where the money is spent on.
Kind regards
Robert
@lenore-admin With the demise of J4N funding I suspect many projects may be in a similar situation to our Ruahine Kiwi project in moving from a funded team to a volunteer lead project with a mixture of sponsorship, grants etc. We are also very focused on collaboration with community and Iwi groups and with neighbouring trapping projects. What this means is that we are far more focused on giving project visibility/transparency to a wide group of people who are not directly engaged in managing traps and so have no need to be able edit anything, but do need to see lots of detail. So I thoroughly support the idea of a visitor or guest or observer member category with read-only access to the whole project. I would even suggest it is critical to our project’s future success.
Robert Gibb
Ruahine Kiwi Project Lead
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This is exactly what we want. Just a tool for trappers to see traps and trap lines on a map in relation to their position. Our project aims to collect high quality data. With a large number of volunteers, we choose to have all the data entered into TrapNZ by a single (busy) person from all the trapper’s notes. This is a big job, but it means fewer mistakes.
I would also like to be able to have the bait station layer turned off by default, as it’s very distracting. For volunteers who seldom use the app, turning off layers isn’t always obvious.
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I also support the idea, we have landowners that just want to see what we are catching on their land but who are not members of the project so having visitor status would be useful for them. It is also difficult to keep every member in our project “assigned” to all the traps they need to be as we are always putting new traps out and with almost 80 members it becomes a hassle having to assign everyone every time. Could you drop this extra step of assigning people to lines if you have a visitor status? Anybody who is an advanced trapper can be automatically assigned 
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We did put forward a feature request in October 2024, assigning trappers to a line rather than having to assign trappers for any new trap.
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