Required fields on the flood form?

[differentsmoke]

We are currently accepting the following fields for our flood form:

• first_name,
• last_name,
• email,
• date_of_report,
• location,
• address,
• latitude,
• longitude,
• description,
• attachments (general pictures or video),
• salinity
• depth

But we don't really have any policy on requiring them, AFAIK. Which of this fields should be mandatory? Are any (apart from salinity) that might be optional?

Also, bear in mind that from #20 we might change the fields.

[susanfiu]

This is what the fields should look like. Asterisked fields are required. Location should include address, lat & long and preferably be auto-filled with an option for the user to manually fill:

first_name, last_name,

• email,
• date_of_report,
• time_of_report,
• location: address, latitude, longitude, description, water_depth (integer), water_depth_units, water_depth_photo, salinity (integer), salinity_units, salinity_photo, bottle_number, bottle_photo, closeup_photo, longshot_photo, other_photo, video, field notes

[differentsmoke]

Thanks Susan. Out of those, which should be mandatory and which should we allow people to skip?

[yamilethmedina]

@differentsmoke Not @susanfiu , but in my opinion I think we're gonna need these:

first_name last_name email date_of_report time_of_report location (address, latitude, longitude)

The other fields are very helpful to us but are optional to make it simpler on the average user who may not have scientific measuring equipment or forgot to take a picture/video. Susan might feel differently because she's closer to the data than I am.