How To's
Learn the steps to using Arctos better here! Written by Arctos users.View Arctos Tutorial Quick Bites for short how-to videos.
- Arctos Developers Guide
- How To Add Geology Attributes to a Locality
- How To Add Loan Items
- How To Apply Licensing and Terms
- How To Approve Attribute Records Entered via Specimen Data Entry Form
- How To Approve Records Entered With Data Entry Form
- How To Arctos While Social Distancing
- How To Assign a Barcode to an Individual Cataloged Specimen Part
- How To Assign a New Locality to a Catalog Record
- How To Barcode Cryovials in an Existing Freezer Box
- How To Batch Download Images
- How To Batch Update Accessions
- How To Batch Update Agents
- How To Batch Update Identifications
- How To Bulkload Agents
- How To Bulkload Barcodes to Specimen Parts
- How To Bulkload Catalog Records
- How To Bulkload Identifiers and Relationships
- How To Bulkload Legacy Loans
- How To Bulkload Media Metadata
- How To Bulkload Parts
- How To Catalog Fossil Material
- How To Change Locality and Collecting Event
- How To Choose the Proper Identifier Type
- How To Cite Specimens
- How To Collect Attributes with a Google Form
- How To Convert Township/Range/Section data to Latitude/Longitude Coordinates Using GeoLocate
- How To Create Agents
- How To Create And Acquire Barcode Supplies
- How To Create Citations
- How To Create GenBank Links
- How To Create Labels
- How To Create Media
- How To Create Taxa
- How To Create Taxa in Arctos Ichnology
- How To Create a Locality
- How To Create a New Collecting Event for a Locality
- How To Create a New Loan
- How To Create a New Specific Locality
- How To Create a Permit
- How To Create a Publication
- How To Create an Accession
- How To Create an Encumbrance
- How To Create an Individual Container in Arctos Object Tracking
- How To Create and Edit Attributes
- How To Create and Edit Containers
- How To Create and Edit Determinations
- How To Create and Edit Parts
- How To Create and Maintain Code Table Values
- How To Create and Manage Geology Terms
- How To Create and Manage Your Arctos Team (Users and Operators)
- How To Create and Print QR Code Insect Labels
- How To Create or Edit Content on the Arctos Wiki (DEPRECATED)
- How To Deal with Agent Bulkloader Results
- How To Delete a Catalog Record
- How To Document Collection Usage
- How To Edit Catalog Numbers for Individual Specimens
- How To Edit Coordinates and Max Error of a Locality
- How To Edit Coordinates for One Specimen
- How To Edit Media
- How To Edit Taxa
- How To Edit a Specific Locality
- How To Edit a Verbatim Locality
- How To Encumber Locality Data
- How To Enter Data for a Single Record
- How To Enter Specimens in the Field
- How To Find Parts for a Loan When Using Object Tracking
- How To Find and Edit Loans
- How To Get the Most Out of Arctos-Github Editing
- How To Github - Contribute to the Arctos Handbook
- How To Github - Getting Started with Github for Arctos
- How To Github - Organizing Issues
- How To Github - Using Github Issues to Improve Arctos
- How To Identify National Park Specimens
- How To Install Cryovials into a Freezer Box
- How To Join Arctos
- How To Manage Code Table Addition or Change Requests (for Code Table Administrators)
- How To Manage Taxon Concepts in Arctos
- How To Manage Taxonomic Classifications
- How To Manage Taxonomy Hierarchically
- How To Manage Taxonomy in the WoRMS (via Arctos) Source
- How To Manage a Collection
- How To Merge Duplicate Localities (needs update)
- How To Move to a Single Barcoded Container
- How To Organize Projects
- How To Print Labels
- How To Request TACC Access to Media Storage
- How To Request a Code Table Addition or Change
- How To Search Agents
- How To Search Projects and Publications
- How To Search Transactions
- How To Search for Specimens
- How To Search for Specimens with Identification and Taxonomy
- How To Start Object Tracking in Arctos
- How To Start as a New Collection in Arctos
- How To Understand Attribute Errors
- How To Understand Data Entry
- How To Understand Deep Publication Data in Arctos
- How To Understand Locality Media
- How To Understand Portals
- How To Understand Project Funding
- How To Understand the Arctos Locality Model
- How To Unlock an Arctos User Account
- How To Upload Media to TACC
- How To Use Complex Identifications
- How To Use SQL option in Specimen Bulkloader
- How to Enter Observational Data
- How to use complex identifications as low-quality data flags