Update LPI form

[ElectricGr]

@ElectricGr this is the issue list for the LPI form from a while back. Please update protocol-related items as needed

• [x] Require shrub height at appropriate interval, every 5 meters starting at 0 and ending at 45. If possible have shrub heights appear at proper meter marks or autofill null/ND values when height is not required.
• [x] Require values in overstory, canopy, surface, and disturbance.
• [x] Do not autofill overstory as 'not present'. If possible, add question that asks if overstory is present on transect. If answer is no, then overstory is autofilled with 'not present'. If answer is yes, then overstory field is blank.
• [x] Autoincrement is breaking. This happens when moving back through records.
• [x] Review page. This is not visualizing properly. Probably an issue with columns.
• [x] Add proofed by field to review page. Make it required.
• [x] Add a page of code definitions (surface codes and disturbance codes). See Attachment
• [x] Add large labels that indicate what repeat arrows do. Align on the right.
• [x] Add yes/no to dead question?
• [ ] Use custom species list for shrub height species dropdown that only includes trees, shrubs, succulents, and subshrubs.
• [x] Including a number field that indicates that order species were recorded.
• [x] Determine is keeping top canopy stratum is necessary. LPICodes.xlsx

[ElectricGr]

Comments on 2/17/2023 version of LPI form

• [x] Can we make the scientific name its own line and put the dead y/n below. It would be nice to have the full name visualize on a smaller device.
• [ ] Need to update soil surface list.
• [x] We should auto populate Dead? as no.
• [ ] How are me dealing with location info. The current form does not have a way to enter park, plot, transect, etc.
• [ ] Should have filtered list for shrub height
• [ ] Could filter list for overstory species
• [ ] Need to update contact list

[HarpoMark]

• [x] Is it okay to use multiselect liberally for single filed repeats like Disturbance? Maybe contacts? Multiselect okay
• [x] Looks like this would work on a phone. Are we trying to make all forms phone compatible? Yes
• [x] Will we have a constraint on Canopy, etc. to prevent record count >1 when None Present is selected? Added constraint.
• [x] Do we need to be able to create both the live and dead record for the same species? I think this is blocked currently. Fixed!
• [x] Weird behavior when you change species after getting an invalid choice error message. Have to leave record to clear error
• [x] Style Question: I assume we like the number pad popup for numeric fields? PROBABLY use num pad after testing

[wright13]

Disregard the lookup lists in this form for now - they are placeholders and we'll update them once all the survey forms are otherwise complete.

Question about "Do not autofill overstory as 'not present'. If possible, add question that asks if overstory is present on transect. If answer is no, then overstory is autofilled with 'not present'. If answer is yes, then overstory field is blank." - what is the purpose of this? It seems like it just adds a needless extra click. This question is at the transect level, not for every point

[wright13]

• [x] look into if disabling device keyboard is possible
• [x] make codes collapsible group
• [x] clarify that overstory present is for whole tsect

[wright13]

@ElectricGr - send Sarah updated code lists

[wright13]

This is mostly a note to self to remember where I left off today: Fixed issue with dead and live getting counted as duplicates. Working on setting it up to test for duplicates in manually entered species (species dropdown set to "other") as well. Running into a bug with this, need to test on device. Also need to test number pad on device. Need to figure out how to disable new repeat records if canopy set to "none present"

[ElectricGr]

Can you change the form so that Soil Surface and Disturbance are on separate lines. On a phone, the soil surface field is too narrow to visualize the value once it is selected.

[wright13]

Yep I noticed that earlier today, should already be fixed

[wright13]

@ElectricGr and @HarpoMark Excluding location info and lookup lists (to be added/updated later), I think I've addressed all the issues we found in the LPI form. One thing to test out: it no longer pre-sets the number of transect points. I changed this because I often found myself wanting to go back to the previous point immediately after creating a new one. The only way to do this is to delete the new (empty) point, or fill in the data for the new point so that required fields don't prevent you from navigating back to the previous point. With a pre-set number of transect points, you can't delete records...so here we are. Let me know what you think - there are tradeoffs either way, and it's easy to change it back. It does check before survey submission that there are 50 transect points.

[ElectricGr]

Sarah, that seems fine.

[ElectricGr]

@wright13

LPI updates

• [x] In the soil surface dropdown, can you change "Shrub" to "Plant Base" and then the "Shrub" field to "Plant Base".
• [x] On the review tab, can you make the "proofed by" field a dropdown instead?

[wright13]

@ElectricGr How do you want the plant lists in this form to be filtered? Currently filtering everything on park. Should overstory, canopy, or shrub height species be filtered by habit as well?

[ElectricGr]

Filter shrub height by lifeform, shrub and tree only. Do not filter overstory and canopy.

[wright13]

• [x] Fix 'other' - don't try to display species

[ElectricGr]

@HarpoMark @wright13

Can you add a Dead? Yes/No for when a plant base is recorded as a soil surface?