Quick Map

Quick Map reports can include Grower, Farm, or Field level maps, and a summary page with acreage breakdowns. Follow the help below to generate a Grower level map report, adding colorization, an explanation of options and for example report pages.

Generating Map Reports

1. Within the Main tab, expand the profile tree down to the desired Grower, Farm, or Field level. This report can include maps for any fields under the selection.
2. Once on the desired profile level, the main map will zoom in to the fields on the map, anywhere from the entire grower to a single field. From within the right pane, a "Reports" button will be available at any of these three levels.
   Please Note: The map view on the main interface will affect the view on the resulting report, unless the "Zoom to Selected Fields" option is used, allowing the user to zoom or pan the map if a different view than the default is desired.   
3. Click "Reports" button from the right hand side pane.
4. From the list of available reports, select the option "Map"
5. Click "Submit"
6. The system opens "Map Report" menu window.
7. Make desired selections then click "Submit".
8. The system delivers the report either via the Notification Center, by email, or both. The default is the Notification center, but this can be modified in Account Preferences.

Map Report Options Explained

• Field Labels: Selecting the "None", "Field Names" , "Field Names with Area" or "Field Names with Area and Planting Date" option causes the Map report to either come with no overlay, or an overlay that contains Field Names, Field Names and areas, or Field Names with areas and the planting date on the Map portion of the report.
• Report Options: The following are selectable within the drop down menu and can be removed by clicking x 
  • Exclude Summary Page(s): Selecting this option causes the Map report to only come with the map page potion and not the summary page that displays farm and field acreages. 
    Please Note: Summary Page and/or Farm Map must be included or report will be blank, with only Notes.
  • Include Farm Map(s): This option is checked by default, un-checking removes the map from the report  allowing for the Summary Page only.
    Please Note: Summary Page and/or Farm Map must be included or report will be blank, with only Notes.
  • Use DMS Format for Centroids: Selecting this option causes centroids listed within the Map summary page to be in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds format, instead of standard Lat/Long.
  • Zoom to Selected Field(s): Selecting this option causes the Map on the report to zoom tightly to the fields within the farm, see Selecting/Colorizing Fields below.
  • Hide Unselected Fields: If Colorization has been applied to fields, this option will hide field boundaries and labels of the non-colorized fields. See help section below for more help on Colorization
  • Show Attribute Labels: Selecting this option causes any field boundary attributes to be labeled within the resulting map panel.
  • Include Segment Acres: Selecting this option causes an additional page to come with the Map report that details the areas for all boundary polygon.
  • Include Segment Acres On Map: Selecting this option causes the boundary areas for each polygon to list within the map overlay.
  • Show Attributes: Selecting this option causes any attributes within the farm boundaries to show on the resulting map.
• Color Profiles by: This allows the selection of colorization between Farms/ Fields, Crop Areas, and Map Selections. See Selecting/ Colorizing Fields for more information on Map Selections
• Notes: Any notes input into the Notes input field list within the Notes section of the map page.
• Additional Recipients: Additional email addresses input into this input field causes copies of the map report to arrive to each email address.
• Print & Save: Selecting this option causes the menu window to refresh showing a naming input field for the file. Input a name for the file, and it will save to the farm level documents folder within the Main profile tree.

Selecting/Colorizing Fields

Temporary Colorization may be added to fields for the purposes of highlighting fields within resulting Map reports. Follow steps below to add Colorization to fields, and then labels to those colors.

1. Within the Main tab, expand the profile tree down to the desired level. The map interface will zoom to display all fields under the profile, but can be manually zoomed in, zoomed out, or panned to change the displayed fields. 
2. The system updates the map screen to show all the field boundaries within the Grower.
3. Click any of the field names within the field boundaries.
4. The system opens a set color window. Click on any of the color swatches within the window to colorize the field that color. Please Note: If the entire farm should be the color selected, click "Apply color to farm" after selecting the color.
5. Repeat steps 4-6 until all desired fields are colorized.
6. Click the "Reports" button located on the right side.
7. From the drop-down menu, select option "Map".
8. Click "Submit".
9. The system opens "Map Report" window. Select the Map Selections beneath Color Profiles by
10. Make any other needed selections then click "Submit".
11. The system processes and then delivers the report (with color labels and acreage breakdowns) according to account preferences.

Examples 

Farm Map Report with Area and Planting Date