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SMS Basic and Advanced Manual
3. Now select the Grower and Farm that you would like to move the Field under and click OK.
4. You will now be prompted to select whether or not you would like this change to only apply to new data you
read in or if you would like the change to affect data you have already read in as well as new data that you
read in. Once you have made your selection click OK.
5. The Management Tree will now update and the change should be visible once you open the tree up or the
next time you read new data in for the moved field.
Merging Fields:
Use the following steps and movie to merge two fields together, and permanently change the links for the merged field
to the new field.
Follow these steps to move a Field to another Farm and/or Grower:
1. Select a field that you would like to merge into another field.
2. Click the right mouse button and select Merge Fields. The Merge Fields dialog will now appear.
3. Select the Grower, Farm, and then Field from the tree that you would like to merge the selected field with.
4. Click OK.
5. The field has now been merged with the field you selected from the tree.
Note: Future data entered into the system that has a link to data already in the system that has been merged will
automatically link to the merged location and not the original locations.
How to manually move other management items (Year, Load, etc.).
Follow these steps to manually reassign the management information for a selected item in the Management Tree:
Note: The changes made using Move Branch are only for information currently in the Management Tree and does not
change how new data will be handled. Edit Item, Merge Field, or Spatial Sorter must be used to effect new data read
into the system.
1. Select an item from the Management Tree and click on it to highlight it.
2. Click on the right mouse button and select Move Branch from the menu that appears.
3. A message dialog will now appear warning about the usage of Move Branch. Click OK.
4. The Select Management dialog is now visible with certain items grayed out depending on which item you
selected from the Management Tree. Select an item you would like to change, add, or edit and make the
appropriate selection.
5. Once you have made all the Management changes you would like, click Accept.
6. The change should now appear in the Management Tree.
How to spatially sort Fields into Farms.
Follow these steps to set a Farm boundary and sort your fields into the proper farms based on the boundaries that are
set:
1. Click on a Grower(s) in the Management Tree and click the Create New Map button below the Management
Tree or go to the Map menu and select Create Map for Selection.
2. A boundary map of the fields under the selected Grower(s) will be created.
3. Go to the File Menu and select New and then Boundary or click on the New Boundary icon on the Map
Toolbar.
4. Use the tools provided in the Boundary Edit toolbar to create a boundary(s) around the fields that you would
like to have sorted into a farm.
5. Once you are done creating an area to represent a farm, click the Set Farm Boundary button. Now enter in
the management information for the farm that you would like the boundary to be associated with.
6. Click Accept when done.
7. Now click Close on the Boundary Edit window.
8. Go to the Tools Menu and select Spatial Sorter and then Sort Fields by Farm.
9. Your fields that fall within the defined farm boundary(s) will be sorted so that they now appear under that
farm. When completed the dialog will indicate how many fields were moved.
10. Clicking on the Farm that a boundary was created for will now generate a boundary map of the farm and
associated fields in the Preview Window.
Note: If any fields contained data without GPS, then this information was not sorted and needs to be manually moved.
See
Manually Moving a Field to perform this action.
How to spatially sort Loads/Regions into Fields.
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