Wisaard Q & A

Howdy! Looking forward to seeing you all at a Wisaard training session soon! Until then.... Q: I have a Project that has historic property inventory forms and archaeology sites, should I put all of the forms in one Activity? Where should I put the report? A: No, please put archaeology site forms in one Activity and historic property inventory forms in a separate Activity. The reason for this is submittal timing. Archaeology site forms must be Submitted in order to be assigned official site numbers to include in reports. Once the forms are submitted and assigned site numbers, the Activity cannot be edited, which means you will not be able to add anything else to that Activity, including the report or any historic property forms. So, if you have historic property forms it is best to put them in a separate Activity since you will likely be submitting them at a different time and they do not have an official number assignment process. You should upload the corresponding report to the Activity that contains the historic property inventory forms. Do not create a separate Activity just for a report in this scenario. If you only have archaeology sites, you must enter the site forms in one Activity and upload the Report to a separate Activity. Two Activities total. If you only have historic property forms, upload the report to the same Activity that the forms are in. One Activity total. The key to having nice, reliable data to work with is to make entries as concise and consolidated as possible. Thank you all for your help with this!