How do I...? and other questions

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Post here if you have any questions about using the site that are not covered in the 'how to' guide.

Adding photos to records automatically transferred to Irecord

Submitted by Joyce Clayton on

I enter my butterfly transect monitoring data through the UKBMS web site and hey, presto the records are automatically transferred to i-record. Great.

However, when I select MyRecords, these records don't appear. I can find them by by selecting All Records and filtering by something meaningful and there they are. I don't undertsand this.

Option to edit records not available

Submitted by mplummer87 on

New to iRecord, so not sure if it's something I've done, but when looking at the 'How to...' page for editing a record, I'm missing the option. Trying to edit a record via 'Explore > My Records' and I only have options to View Details and View Species Details. I also have no option to edit a record via the 'View Details' option. 

 

 

My Records marked 'sensitive'

Submitted by Jim Alder on

I have recently added some record from a private woodland and so have marked as sensitive with a 1km grid ref blur.   I thought that this only hid the location name and precise grid reference from the public view.  I have now looked at all these records using the 'Explore > My Records' function and these records are blurred to me too.  I can't filter out the records from the site now using the location name as its hidden and not recognised when I apply a filter to the location field.  This doesnt make sense to blur the details to the recorder themselves.

Photo acceptance for a record.

Submitted by cggmb2012 on

Hello. I am having trouble loading more than one photo when submitting a record. I drag my first image across to the photo box successfully, but when adding a second photo, the image expands and fills the screen instead of staying in the photo box. Is this an iRecord issue or a problem with my PC? Thanks.

How do I add a record for a species of beetle not officially on the current British list ?

Submitted by mike@meadbrigg… on

I recently found some specimens of the bark beetle Gnathotrichus materiarus (Fitch, 1858) (Scolytinae), which I do not think has yet been formally added to the British list.  They were found on cut timber in the New Forest, at a site several miles from where this species was first identified as an accidental introduction from North America from specimens collected in 2014 and 2015 (Inward, 2020; Journal of Pest Science).