Topic outline
Learn how to build surveys from scratch in Open Foris Arena — from adding attributes and validation rules to managing categories, taxonomies, and best practices for robust survey design.
Individuals who would especially benefit from taking this course include:
- Technical staff of national forest authorities or ministry.
- Field teams, enumerators, national inventory staff, and project partners involved in field data collection.
- Students in forestry and environmental sciences.
- Designing surveys from scratch or from existing templates.
- Adding attributes, data types, validation rules, and default values.
- Managing categories, taxonomies, and sampling lookup tables.
- Survey best practices for naming conventions, hierarchy, and dependencies.
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teaser
7 Videos
Getting started
Get an overview of Arena key functionalities, registration, user interface, manuals and templates.
4 m
Start a survey from scratch
Create a simple survey from the beginning.
4 m
Add Attributes and Data Types
Include various attribute data types in your survey.
4 m
Refine Your Survey with Rules
Set relevancy, validation rules, defaults, preview, and publish.
6 m
Clone Survey
Create a new survey from Template or existing survey with cloning and importing.
3 m
Manage Categories and Taxonomies - Forthcoming
Create categories, taxonomic lists, sampling data lookup tables, and import/export categories.
x m
Survey Good Practices - Forthcoming
Optimize survey design with hierarchy, naming conventions, dependencies, validations, and labels.
x m