Protocol management

Waterbird census

To access the adminstration of a protocol you need the Protocol administrator right. Only an Admin of the Local portal can provide you such access, under certain conditions.

If you are an administrator, go to the administration section on the left hand column (see image Administration), and scroll down to Protocol administration. Open panel and select Protocol administration (see image Protocol administration).

Administration.

Protocol administration.

Creating a study site

CREATE A NEW SITE: 1. Menu > Administration > Protocol administration > Waterbird census > Sites 2. Select new site as if Submitting records 3. Choose [[ |Create a protocoled census -Waterbird census]] 4. Name the site 5. Draw polygon or import shapefile 6. SAVE

Waterbird census. Site administration.

From the Waterbird census menu, select Sites to see a list with all existing sites. On top, type the name of a site, or part of it, and click SEARCH to facilitate teh search, and DISPLAY ALL to see the full list. Select the page number and the number of items per page to ease the search.

To create a new site, click + NEW under the list (see image). Select the site as if entering an observation (see wiki section Web interface > Submitting records if necessary) and choose the new option: Create a protocoled census - Waterbird census (see image below).

Enter a name for the new site.

Either:

• Draw polygon as explained in ... or,
  

• Export shapefile
  

SAVE AND STAY or SAVE AND ADD A RECORD

Setting protocol parameters

To stablish the starting paremeters of a Waterbird census, choose the protocol you need to work on, in this case, Waterbird census, and select Settings (see image Waterbird census. Menu). Go to parameters

Waterbird census. Menu.

Waterbird census. Settings.

Waterbird census. Parameters describing count.