Recording Planting Entries with Journal App

When starting a new season with FieldX, create Plant journal entries to mark what crops and varieties are planted in a field.

Select your field in one of the following ways:
1. Add data to an individual field by tapping on the Grower, Farm, and field from the list, or by tapping the field border.
2. Turn on Batch Mode’, then select multiple fields. <More Details>
Select ‘Treatment’ from the list of journal entry types.
Then you can select a template.
1. *Most Recent Entry pre-fills today’s journal entry with the previous scouting entry’s observations.
2. *Standard form opens a data entry form with no data pre-filled and the default list of data fields.
3. If organization templates are created, they will be displayed here. Tap on the text field above the list of template names to search through the list.

Fill in your data. Navigate through the forms using the tabs on the left side of the screen. Tap on the list icon above the form at any time to view the current crop planted in the field, if a planting entry has already been created in the current crop season.
The ‘Log’ tab includes high-level details of the treatment event, including the date started and completed, Status, and comments.
1. For comments data fields, such as the General Comments in the Log tab, type the information in directly, tap on the microphone icon to use the iPad’s voice-to-text feature to record your comments.
The Planting tab is used to fill in the details of the planting event, including the Crop, Variety, and population.
1. If there are multiple varieties planted in a field, you will need to create a planting entry for each variety.
The Treatments tab lists at-planting treatment details. This includes at-planting treatment details, rate, application method, and comments.
1. If the treatment is not pre-filled in your template, you can tap ‘+Add Item’ to add a treatment to the journal entry. Select the treatment type, then enter the treatment details in the popup that opens.
When finished, tap ‘Done’.

Note: Picklists for Crops and Varieties are set up on FieldX Office for the PC.

To review your data, tap on the ‘History’ tab, then tap on the Journal entry to view the Quick-View.
Then tap on the Upload button (cloud with up arrow), or the Full Sync button (cloud with up+down arrow) to send your data to the server.

If you are holding the app in Portrait mode, you can expose the Field list in the top-left by tapping on the list icon.

Inside the journal entry, tap on the arrow icon to expose or hide the journal entry tabs.

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