Public Documentation

:open_book: Listed below is all the known public documentation (i.e., not tagged with members-only) as of the creation of this topic. These docs provide potential members and non-members information about Specify without getting overly detailed or too “in the weeds”.

getting started/admin

About Specify

Webinar: Introduction to Specify 7

Specify Terminology

Specify Cloud

Accessibility Features in Specify

Specify 7 Installation Instructions

Specify Institutional Scopings

View the Specify Schema & Data Model

Specify's Organizational Model and User Accounts for Multiple Collections

Data Conversion Process

Specify Web Asset Server (Attachment Server)

Guided Setup

Convert a Specify database to UTF-8

Data Quality Toolkit

About the Specify Audit Log

key area overviews

Data Entry in Specify

Interactions in Specify

Trees in Specify

Simple Search

About the Query Builder

Record Sets

About WorkBench (Bulk Upload) and Batch Edit in Specify

Attachments in Specify

Specify Permission System Introduction

app resource overviews

What is a Form Definition?

Editing Web Links in Specify 7

Field Formatting and Auto-Numbering

Setting Default User Preferences

collection relationships

Collection Relationships

Create a Collection Relationship in Specify 7

Create Collection Relationships via the WorkBench

labels/reports

Import a Report / Label

How to Delete a Label or Report

Unsupported Scriptlets in Specify 7

web portal

Specify Web Portal Examples

Web Portal Configuration Instructions

Web Portal Searching

niche/misc. topic overviews

Paleo Context / Geologic Context

Locality and Locality Plugins

Deaccessions in Specify

Synonyms and Synonymy in Specify

Virtual Fields

Add links from Agent to ORCID, Bionomia, Wikidata, and more - #2 by dshorthouse

Dependent vs. Independent Relationships

Independent Subviews

Tables with GUID fields

Find all records modified since a particular date

Export and Import a Query

Query inside a Record Set

Edit Preparation Types

Enable Dark Mode

Advanced:

WorkBench Technical Breakdown

Solve MySQL Has Gone Away Issue

Create GUIDs for All Records in a Table SQL

How to Edit Collection, Discipline, Division, and Institution Records

Add a Catalog Number Uniqueness Requirement at the Database Level

Export Determination History for Symbiota and GBIF

Plus many videos and webinars in the respective tags: