Exporting your data

From different places of the Local Website you can browse your data, and/or export your own in different formats (see section Available formats).

We take the example below from Explore > All my observations, the past 30 days (see image below).

1. Templates

Select a template from the expandable menu (1a) or create a new template (1b).

2. Formats

Select a format to download your data. Place the mouse pointer on the format icons to see which extension corresponds to each icon. Be aware the file will be generated immediately in the default template if no other have been selected.

3. Files

List of files ready to download (in green, 3b), and those being created (in orange, 3a). Wait for a file to be created and download by clicking on its name when ready (in green, 3b). Place the mouse pointer on the "i" icon when the file is ready in order to see the characteristics for each format type.

4. All your exports

List of all files created to export by the current user.

5. Delete

Delete any file by clicking on the "X" on the top right corner of the file area.

Available formats

Data is available to download in different formats. See in the table below the differences between the formats.

	Name	Description
	Tab separated plain text(.txt)	Data stored as a text, with columns separated by spaces. It can be opened with Microsoft Notepad, WordPad and TextEdit.
	MS Excel file (.xlsx)	Spreadsheets. It can be opened with Microsoft Excel.
	MS Excel file 97-2003(.xls)	Spreadsheets. It can be opened with any version of Microsoft Excel.
	Google Earth (.KML)	Geo-referenced information that can be displayed in maps. It can be opened with GoogleEarth, but also with other GIS software.
	eXtensible Markup Language (.XML)	Data encrypted to be transferred between two computers through the web. It is used for the API.
	JavaScript Object Notation (.JSON)	Data encrypted to be transferred between two computers through the web. It is used for the API.

Templates

Clicking on the expandable menu, choose an already made template (a) or create a new one (b) -See image below.

Available templates differ from country to country, are created by local administrators and can be modified by users with rights. The following templates exist in all sites and cannot be modified. Note some templates are only available for certain users, like administrators, and registered users without special rights will not see them in their menus.

Name	Distribution	Description	Example
BASIC	Public	It does not include personal information, like observers' names and e-mail addresses.
BASIC+	Administrators	It includes observers' names and e-mail addresses. Only available for administrators.
OLD_BASIC+	Public	Template on the old website. It includes personal information but users can only download own data.
Wetlands+	Private	Special template only for Wetlands program.

To choose form a Template you have previously created, click on the templates wheel and choose from the list (see image below). Use arrows under titles to alternate between ascending and descending order (see this image as an example).

1. Search

Enter the beggining or full name of the export mode you are seeking and click SEARCH. When a filter is applied, click on DISPLAY ALL to see the full list.

2. Search

Select page number and/or number of items per page.

3. Details

Click to see details of selected template.

4. Edit

Modify details of selected template.

At the bottom of the page,

click CANCEL to go to previous screen without modifying the template, or

click SAVE to save changes.

5. Delete

Click on the bin to delete the template. Note it will be deleted immediately and irreversibly without asking for confirmation.

6. NEW

Create a new template. See section New template from scratch below for details.

Create a new template

It is possible to create a new template. This will allow you to download only the data you are interested in. To create a new template, start from scratch or modify an existing one.

New template from an existing one

To create a template starting from an existing one,

1. click on the templates wheel (see image Templates, b)

2. select the existing template you want to work from and click on Details (see image Exporting data. Templates list, 3)

3. click CREATE A NEW EXPORT MODEL FROM THE CURRENT ONE at the bottom of the page (see image Details of a template). Fields on the right (4) are displayed in the original template, while on the left (3) are all other available ones.

1. Template name

Type a name for the template.

2. Skip second header line

By default, fields contain two headers: a regular one which is easy to visualise, and a second one to facilitate reading by certain programs when imported. Check to skip the second header line. See here examples with two headers (top), and one (bottom).

3. All columns

List of all fields available. Click a field you would like to add in your protocol and drag it from the left-hand column to the right-hand column.

4. Selected columns

List of columns in the current template. To remove any, click on the field and drag it to the left-hand column. Orange fields contain multiple possibilities while blue ones only contain one. Some fields can be broken down into smaller fields or show different formats when indicated (see table under New template from scratch for details).

When done, at the bottom of the page,

click CANCEL to go to previous screen without modifying the template, or

click SAVE to save changes.

New template from scratch

To create a template starting from scratch,

1. click on the templates wheel (see image Templates, b).

2. click NEW (see image Exporting data. Templates list, 6).

1. Template name

Type a name for the template.

2. Skip second header line

By default, fields contain two headers: a regular one which is easy to visualise, and a second one to facilitate reading by certain programs when imported. Check to skip the second header line. See here examples with two headers (top), and one (bottom).

3. All columns

List of all fields available. Click a field you would like to have in your protocol and drag it from the left-hand column (3) to the right-hand column (4).

4. Selected columns

List of columns in the current template. To remove any, click on the field and drag it back to the left-hand column. Orange fields contain multiple possibilities while blue ones only contain one. Some fields can be broken down into smaller ones or contain different formats when checked. See the table below to know which fields can be broken down and how they look like.

Field	Description	Example
Coordinates	Latitud (N) and Longitud (E) by default Latitud (N), Longitud (E), DMS and UTM	Example
Time stop	00:00 by default Separated hour and minutes	Example
Time start	00:00 by default Separated hour and minutes	Example
Date	DD-month-YY by default Separated day, month and year, Julian day, pentad, decade and week number	Example
Province	...
ID ornitho.x	...
Universal observation ID
Biolovision species ID
Species
Latin name
Taxonomic group
Family
Systematic order
Species sheet data (orange)
Date
Timing
List ID
Universal list ID
Time start
Time stop
Complete list?
Comment of the list
Locality ID
Site
Municipality
County
Country
Coordinates
Type of record location
Grid cell
Altitude
Estimation

When done, at the bottom of the page,

click CANCEL to go to previous screen without modifying the template, or

click SAVE to save changes.

Exporting your trace

If you recorded your trace when creating a list in NaturaList, download length and/or waypoints by selecting filed Trace length and/or Trace when downloading your data. Alternatively, download only the track by selecting solely Trace.

Visit section above to know how to create a template containing your trace.