The Smartphone app chapter comprises the subsections:
With the smartphone app, everyone in the team can record their working hours and display their tasks. Call up information about your tasks on site. Record times and notes for each task and mark tasks as completed. In the fields section, you can track the occupancy of the beds and call up the data by tapping on a planting-set. You can also record the harvest quantity directly in the field after harvesting.
All data can also be stored offline and is transferred as soon as the device has an Internet connection (mobile data or Wi-Fi). To be able to call up current data from task list and field allocation offline, these data must have been loaded once with an internet connection (for example, in the morning in the office).
Voice input: To quickly make notes in the cultivation planner app, you can use your smartphone’s voice input. Once this has been set up, it can be activated using the microphone icon (next to the keyboard) and you can record the note. To do this, select your preferred speech engine in the settings of your device under ‘Administration/Text to speech’ or similar.
9.1 Setup
Log in with QR code from desktop app: Click on the ‘Mobile app’ line in the info menu at the top right of the desktop app. A QR code will now be displayed. Scan it with your smartphone and tap on the link that appears. The browser opens with the application.
To open the app from the home screen, search for the option ‘Add to home screen’ in the browser settings menu while you are logged in and the cultivation planner app is open in the browser.
Settings:
Tap on the hamburger menu (top right) to display the options and information about the app.
Here you will find the privacy policy, terms and conditions, imprint and licence information as well as the functions
- Logout (tap to log out of the app)
- Language (choose whether the app is displayed in German, English, Spanish, Italian or French)
Below this is the name of the account, the login email address and the version number of the app. The online status is displayed at the bottom.
Tap somewhere outside the menu window to close.
9.2 Main areas
The navigation bar at the bottom of the screen is used to select the app areas. Tap one of the menu items to call up the function (from left to right).
- Calendar; Weekly to-do list
- Fields and beds list
- Harvest recording
- Time recording (for daily working time registration)
Calendar; Weekly to-do list
Weekly task list: Shows all tasks in the period 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after the current week.
Notes: Tap on a task note to enter documentation for the task. In the options (tap the green plus at the bottom right), you can also create a photo note for a crop area with “Create photo note” (see “Options” below).
Task timer: Tap on Start task timer, complete your task and then stop the time. This is saved in the task. For breaks, tap Stop and then Continue or measure another time for tasks lasting several days. This is then added to the existing time on the task.
Move task: If an existing task is to be moved to another day, the “Move” button appears by “swiping to the right” on the open task. Tap this, select the desired date and confirm by tapping “Save”. The task is moved to the new date.
Complete task: Swipe to the right to show the ‘Completed’ button to mark the task as completed. This removes the task from the list and displays it in the task calendar of the desktop app with the status ‘Completed’. If the task is to be displayed in the task list again, it must be reset in the desktop app calendar (open task and click on “reset status” in the task-header).
Create tasks / photo note (green plus at the bottom right):
Create new task: Tap on the green plus at the bottom right and select “Create task”.
Create fertilizer task: If you want to create the task for fertilizer application and documentation, select Create fertilizer task.
Create photo note: Tap on Create photo note. Select the area to which the image(s) should be assigned. By tapping on “Add photo”, you can then create a photo or select an existing image from the smartphone’s gallery. A written note can be created in the “Note” line.
Tap “Done” at the top right to save the photo note under “Fields and beds” in the “Notes&#tags” tab of the selected field.
Fields and beds list
In the field list, all areas and their beds can be called up by tapping on them and planting-sets that are planned on the beds are displayed there. You can call up set data by tapping on the set.
There are two views for this:
1. unfold the field by tapping on the arrow on the far right. Then tap on the bed. The lines below show the planned sets on the beds with the cultivation period.
2. the graphical view shown (of the example plot “Tunnel 1”), which can be called up by tapping on the diagram symbol. In this view, the bed numbers can be seen on the left-hand side of the screen.
The planting sets are displayed with a calendar week timeline for the entire year, as in the fields view of the desktop app, and are color-coded according to cultivation and harvest period.
In both views, tapping on a set calls up the corresponding set data.
Harvest recording
Open the harvest recording in the navigation bar below. A list of the sets, that are currently within their harvest period, appears. After harvesting in the field, enter the harvest quantities in the corresponding sets. Tap on a set in the list to go directly to harvest recording. The detailed view of the set opens with the recording. In the entry above it, you can display the cultivation data for the set.
Record harvest quantities:
Change the harvest date if necessary, by tapping on the date displayed and choosing another date. Then tap done.
Enter the harvest quantity to be recorded under “Harvest quantity” and select the desired unit (here ‘kg’) under “Unit”. By default, the unit stored in the set is preselected.
Under “Variety”, select the variety for which the harvest is to be recorded. A variety selection is only possible for sets that have not yet been assigned a variety in the cultivation plan. For different varieties that are planned within a set, the variety can be selected to record the harvest quantity (all varieties stored in the crop master data can be selected). In the desktop app, the recorded harvest quantities in the set are then listed separately by variety in the “Harvest recording” tab.
If necessary, select the beds on which the area was harvested under “Bed”.
Harvest quantities entered are displayed below the recording area after the save button has been tapped.
Time recording
Recording working hours in the mobile app:
Select the button “Time registration” (bottom far right).
Then tap on ‘Start’. The running timer is displayed.
Tap ‘Stop’ to end the time recording.
Tap “Start” again to record another time after a break.
All recorded times of a day are listed with the start and end time under the current recording.
The times are transferred as soon as the mobile device is online and can be viewed in the desktop app under “Time registration” and (with admin rights only) in the “Time registration manager”.
The time records can be corrected if necessary (e.g. if the time was forgotten to be stopped after work).