Tasks and progress can be viewed as a kanban board here. Milestones can be viewed here. When viewing tasks and milestones, be sure to check the "closed" link to see what has been completed. General Symbiota documentation is found here.

Updates and Thoughts

How to Group Collections in the Advanced Search Form

Symbiota uses “categories” to generate groups of collections that can be selected as one in the Advanced Search form. To use this feature, the database has to be manually edited...

Non-Biological tree experiments

Collections hosted at the Geological Museum and the Anthropology Department need a workaround to be incorporated in Symbiota. The workaround consists in creating a non-biological taxonomic tree where the “taxa”...

Importing Taxa

layout: post title: “Importing taxa (taxonomic tree)” author: “Laura” tags: — When uploading taxa to Symbiota using the “batch upload” tool, the spreadsheet to be uploaded may include the following...

Adding quick search with vernaculars

While Symbiota includes a quick search box built in at the home page, it was requested that I’d add vernaculars to the quick search, and that it is placed in...

Updating the Front-End

Symbiota originally includes a folder with several CSS files. The general styles are found within base.css. In order to override those styles, the suggested best practice would be to modify...