Restoration Scope docs
Step-by-step guides to your Restoration Scope app, from adding users and choosing what they can do to downloading polygons from the map.
Getting started
- How Restoration Scope worksThe parts every Restoration Scope app shares, and the guide for each job: records, linked records, the map, phones, roles, and what changes between apps.
- Sign in to your app and sign outSign in with your Google or Microsoft account, open the right app when you have more than one, and sign out without losing changes.
- Install the app on your phoneGet the RS Field app from the App Store or Google Play, or add your app to your phone's home screen from the browser.
People and settings
- Add users and set their rolesGive people access to your app by email address or email domain, and choose what each person can do.
- Invite people with a link or QR codeCreate a link or QR code that lets people sign up and join your app as viewers or editors, without adding each email.
- Group people into teamsAdmins can group the people who use your app into teams. What a team does, and what it doesn't.
- Find your way around SettingsWhat each section of Settings is for, who sees it, and which guide covers it, from your account to people, teams, map layers and record types.
- Change the language, sign out or delete your accountSwitch the app's language, sign out without losing unsynced changes, and ask us to delete your account.
Lists and records
- Open a record and find your way around its pageOpen a record from a list or the map, read its page (fields, tabs and linked records), go back to the list, and open or share it in a new tab.
- Find a record, a row or a placeThe three searches in the app: open any record by name from anywhere, narrow the list you have open, or move the map to a place or a coordinate.
- Add, edit and delete recordsAdd a record from a list, inside another record or on the map, change its fields, delete it, and what happens when you save with no connection.
- Fill in and submit a formOpen one of your app's forms from Settings, a link, the map or a record, answer its questions and submit. What you see after, and how to change it later.
- Filter, sort and save views of a listSearch, filter, sort and group the records in a table, choose its columns, download it as CSV, and save the result as a view your team can open again.
- Read a page's numbers, tabs and chartsUnderstand what a page shows, from its sections, number cards, tabs, charts and tables to the (i) notes beside titles and pages about one record.
- Import records from a spreadsheet or map fileBring many records in at once from an Excel or CSV spreadsheet or a map file (Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML), match the columns, and create them.
- Attach files and photos to a recordAdd a document or a photo to a record's file field, open it again, and replace or remove it.
- Fix a record's location on the mapMove a point that sits in the wrong place, find where to fix a boundary or line, and what to do when a photo has no GPS location.
- Tables, boards, cards and other list layoutsThe ways a list of records can show, from a table to a board or a timeline, what each one is good for, and how to switch when a page offers more than one.
Map
- Move around the map and use its buttonsMove and zoom the map, find your location, read the zoom level, show or hide the map and the panel, and use the right-click menu.
- Turn map layers on and add sourcesShow extra data over your map, such as tree cover loss or canopy height, and add layers from the source library or from a file.
- Read the map legend and change how a layer looksTurn record layers on and off from the legend, color a layer by a field and read its color scale, filter it, hide its fill, and zoom to it.
- Draw a boundary, line or point on the mapDraw a plot boundary, a line or a point on the map, walk a boundary with your phone's GPS in the field, and fix or redraw a shape later.
- Change the basemapSwitch the imagery under your map, such as satellite or a light map, and turn on 3D terrain or black and white.
- Comment on the map and mention teammatesPin a comment to a spot on the map, reply, mention a teammate so they get an email, and resolve or delete a thread when it's done.
Field app
- Collect data offline in the fieldGet your phone ready while you have signal, then add records, photos and GPS points with no connection. They sync when you're back online.
- Check that your changes syncedThe Sync Center shows what your phone still has to send. What each status means, and what to do about it.
- How offline sync worksWhere your phone keeps work saved offline, how it reaches the project when you reconnect, and what happens when two people change the same record.
- Take photos and GPS points in the fieldCapture a record's GPS point with your phone, wait for good accuracy, and take photos that keep where they were taken.
Download and share
- Download your dataEvery way to take data out of the app, from a list as a CSV file to map boundaries and a backup of your files, and which guide shows each one.
- Share your project with a funder or donorGive a funder view-only access to your app with an invite link or their email, and what you can't share yet.
- Download polygons from the mapDownload every polygon of a map layer, or only the filtered ones, as a .geojson or .kml file.
- Prepare boundaries for the EUDR or a verifierGet your plot boundaries ready for an EUDR due diligence statement or a carbon verifier, from the file the map gives you to the file they accept.
Help
- Fix common problemsWhat to do when the app asks you to reload, looks out of date, won't load a page or the map, fails its Offline Check, or holds work that hasn't synced.
- Keyboard shortcutsThe keys that open search and layers, make the map full screen, start a comment, edit a record and finish a drawing, on a Mac and on Windows.
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