Exploring features
A feature is one thing on the map: one tree, one park.
Selecting a feature
Click a feature on the map, or its row in the list, and it’s highlighted on the map with its details open in the Data panel. The map frames a feature you pick from the list, and where several sit on top of each other, a click opens a small list to pick from.
Searching, sorting and filtering
Search, filter, bookmarks, Nearby and the Sort menu sit in one row above the feature list, and they work together, so you can ask for your bookmarked trees of one species, near you.
- Search matches against every one of a feature’s details, so searching “Eucalyptus” finds every tree with that word anywhere in its record. It reads the attached records as well: a result found in one names the set it came from and the feature it belongs to, and opening it frames that feature on the map and shows the record.
- Sort reorders the list by any field, by distance from the centre of the visible map, or by size for lines and areas.
- Filter narrows the map and the list to the values you tick, say one species of tree; the count reads “N of M” while a filter is on, and pressing the lit button again clears them all. Add filter stacks another on top, and a feature has to satisfy all of them: oaks in poor condition takes two filters. The Bookmarks button narrows on top of both. A filter you add starts with everything ticked and narrows nothing until you untick a value. Clicking a feature’s category value in the list sets a filter directly. Where features carry attached records, a filter can read those as well.
Reading a feature’s details
The detail view lists everything the record holds.
Records attached to a feature
Some maps carry sets of records belonging to a feature — the inspections on a tree, the jobs done to it. Where a feature has them, tabs sit across its details: Details first, then one tab per set, each showing how many records it holds for that feature. A set with none for this feature still gets a tab, and the tab says so.
Click a record to read it. The row above its title names what it came from and takes you back there, and the arrows beside it step through the rest of that tab. A record you open can carry tabs of its own.
Where a set of records carries photos, each record shows its photo above its fields. The feature’s own card shows a small square beside the text: the photo on the most recent record of the first set that carries them. A record with no photo shows none.
On a map you can edit, an open tab carries an Add button at the bottom right, named for one record of that set — Add Inspection on a tab called Inspections, whether or not the tab holds any records yet. Pressing it opens a form for one new record, with three things already filled in: what ties the record to the feature you are on, the date, and the feature’s position. Fill in the rest and press Save, and the record joins the tab. Where a set of records cannot be added to, the button is not there.
An open record carries an Update button in the same corner. Press it and the record’s values become editable, with a tick to save and a cross to stop; the fields tying the record to its feature stay put, each marked with a padlock, as does any field holding the record’s own id. Where Groundwork cannot tell a set’s records apart the button is not there, and a note above the record’s fields asks you to have your administrator give each record its own id.
The filter reads these records too. Each set is listed near the top of its field list, above most of the feature’s own fields, and picking a field from one narrows the map to the features whose records hold the values you tick — the trees whose inspections say Poor, even though the trees themselves carry no condition. It counts all of a feature’s records to begin with. The clock button beside the filter’s All/None tick box narrows it to the most recent record alone, and the field then reads “latest condition” rather than “condition”: a tree inspected as Critical in 2021 and Good ever since answers to Critical before you press it and not after.
A tab opens with the last record in the set at the top, and Sort — at the end of the row of buttons above the tabs — reorders them by any of their fields. The tab you have open stays open as you step from feature to feature with the arrows. Each layer keeps its own, so switching layer opens whatever was last open there, or Details if you haven’t chosen one there yet. The map stays as it is throughout: the feature you opened keeps its highlight at every level of its records, and the records themselves are never drawn on it.
The ⋮ beside Sort sets what those rows read: Title, Category and Description, each offering the set’s own fields. The choice belongs to the set, so it holds as you move between features, and it stays with the map.
Records like these are read-only: there is no adding, changing, deleting or sharing one.
Nearby and routes
Set a location in the box at the top of the map, then press Nearby above the list. Groundwork ranks the features by distance from that spot, and the ⌄ beside the button picks how you’re travelling: automatic (the default, which compares walking, cycling and driving), one of those on its own, or a straight line.
To draw a route to one feature, open it and press the route button under its title. Clear route takes it off again.
Bookmarks
A bookmark is a marker you put on a feature to find it again: the sites on today’s run, the trees to revisit. It doesn’t change the data, and nobody else sees it. The bookmark button on a feature’s row, or under its title, switches it on and off, and the bookmark button above the list narrows the list and the map to your bookmarked features. Bookmarks are saved in your browser on this device.
Naming and drawing the layer
The layer’s ⋮ menu, beside its name at the top of the panel, sets which of a feature’s fields describe it: the Title shown in the list, the Label drawn on the map, and the Category and Description on each row. Where a layer has records attached to its features, a Status row also offers a value from those records to show on each row.
The Style row in the same menu picks how the layer is drawn: any styles published with the map, Simple for one plain colour, or colouring by one of the layer’s fields. Your choices are saved for the layer.