Surveys

A survey in DET is defined as the type/name of the survey (e.g Services) and the year associated with it (e.g. 2005). Therefore examples of surveys are:

The DET application can manage multiple surveys at any given time even if they have the same title. Only one survey can be open at once but you can change the current survey at any time by opening another one.

Surveys are stored on the local disk of the workstation where the DET is installed. Each user works on his own private copy. It is possible however to exchange surveys among users through the export/import mechanism.

The filesystem folder that holds all surveys is user-configurable. The first time you launch the application you will be asked to specify this folder. You can accept the default or specify an alternative location. The DET will remember your choice next time that you re-launch it.

Note that surveys are comprised of more than one files on the disk so you should always use the import/export mechanism to move surveys and never their file manager.

See also:

Starting a survey
Entering observations
Finishing a survey