Observations

Use offline basemaps
Following are the instructions according to esri's Use offline basemaps help topic, augmented by additional screenshots. This assumes that offline base...
Mon, 22 Aug, 2022 at 8:45 AM
Clone Observations surveys to member program
In ArcGIS Online, unshare any survey forms from the Survey123 group which will not be cloned. Run the 3 attached queries in their Biotics instance Query B...
Thu, 8 Jun, 2023 at 8:14 AM
Observations toolbox for Non-Biotics use
The Observations for Non-Biotics use toolbox and documentation is attached.  The script within the toolbox does the following (UPDATED 2/28/2023):  Creat...
Thu, 9 Mar, 2023 at 10:58 AM
Observations survey for Non-Biotics users
Spreadsheet and documentation attached for use of the Observations survey by Non-Biotics users. Queries would need to be run by the local Network member pro...
Wed, 1 Mar, 2023 at 10:57 AM
BLM Observations toolbox
The BLM Observations toolbox and documentation is attached.  The script within the toolbox does the following:  Creates the Observations.gdb according to...
Thu, 9 Mar, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Darwin Core
Thanks to Jodi Shippee (VT) for sharing the following information: I guess it could go without saying that how our data is used (or not) by aggregators (...
Fri, 14 Apr, 2017 at 11:35 AM
Changes to Observations survey to incorporate Specimen Labels
The ability to autogenerate specimen labels from the Observations survey required additional fields be added to the survey and the Observations Toolbox be m...
Wed, 25 May, 2022 at 3:48 PM
Calculate EGT_UID within Observations survey
Calculate EGT_ID from Explorer field in Observations survey if field added after data began to be collected: SUBSTRING(explorer,40,CHAR_LENGTH(explorer)-40)
Tue, 17 Jan, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Error received running 7_Populate Destination Table script in Observations toolbox
Error: ....   File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.7\arcpy\arcpy\analysis.py", line 1281, in Frequency     raise e ExecuteError: Fail...
Wed, 19 May, 2021 at 8:17 AM
Bare minimum fields for Observations survey
Should you have an existing survey and wish to include fields to utilize NatureServe spatial methodology and the Observations toolbox, see the attached spre...
Mon, 6 Mar, 2023 at 4:23 PM