Understanding the parts of a Notebook

A Fieldmark Notebook is comprised of Forms which can be divided into Sections. Fields and other Components are placed on each Section, in the order determined by the Notebook Creator.

Forms

Forms are highest level of organisation within a Notebook.

They are best understood as an Entity in traditional data modelling and should describe the subject (or one of the subjects) of your recording project. For example, a site, feature and artefact would each have their own Form.

On export, a .csv or spreadsheet will be created for each Form.

Within Fieldmark you will be able to add a Record for each Form you create in the App.

Sections

Sections are defined parts of a Forms.

They do not affect the output of data for that Form but allow the Notebook Creator to break up the different Fields and Components into discreet views that allow researchers to capture data in the most efficient way.

Records

Records are the primary organising unit for observations made in Fieldmark. A Record is created for each Form and together they will be exported into a single table or .csv. A record will include one or more Fields.

Note

Records can be related to each other using the Relationships field type. See Child and Related Records for more information.