Wisaard Q & A

Monday greetings to you all! It's time for another installment of As the Wisaard Turns (cue cheesy music)! Sorry I missed last week, I was a little under the weather.

Wisaard will be down on Wednesday, August 31 for software updates. This is happy news.

Q: When are the next Wisaard updates going to happen? We've waited so patiently and you said it was going to be done last week! A: Thursday September, 1! Yes, that is this coming Thursday. However, Wisaard will be down on Wednesday, August 31 for the software updates. We will update the website and Facebook when it is back online. You can spend the Labor Day holiday weekend filling out archaeology site forms from home! Items on this software update include:

1. Online Archaeology site form
2. Online Traditional Cultural Place template
3. Print Function for historic property inventory forms, register properties, and the new archaeology and TCP form/template.
4. Export search results to Excel or PDF

Q: I have completed a survey of historic properties and I also have a report, should I put them under the same Activity? A: One. Think of an Activity as a file folder. All documents associated with the resources within an Activity should be uploaded with that Activity. A separate Activity may occur under the same Project, but only if there is a different group of resources. Remember, things may be added at the Activity level and at the Resource level. Reports should be added at the Activity level. See the detail below. But Kim, you ask, what if I have more than one type of Resource in my report, such as an archaeology site or TCP? Should I still be adding the report to the same Activity as the historic property inventory forms? Yes, you should. As long as the archaeology site and the historic property inventory forms are for the same APE or survey area, then they should all be together in the same Activity.