Managing field features

Platform: Portal

The portal's Maps page is the best place to review field features across a site, tidy up names and attributes, draw new features, and remove stale entries. Every signed-in portal user can both view and manage features here — adding, editing, hiding, and deleting don't need any special role.

Each feature also shows how it was captured (for example RTK GPS, Phone GPS, or Drawn on portal), so you can tell field-captured geometry apart from anything added later from the office.

Viewing features for a vineyard

1. Open Maps from the sidebar.

2. Select the vineyard you want to work on.

3. Switch the view to Features in the lens switcher at the top of the page (Blocks · Features · Spots · Work · Live).

   

Features are grouped by category (irrigation, power, hazards and safety, and so on) in the left-hand panel. To narrow the list, type in the Search features box — search matches each feature's name, type, category, and attribute values. To hide whole categories from the list and the map, use the Features filter panel in the map header (see Tidying up the map).

Drawing a new feature

1. With the Features view open, click Add Feature.

2. Choose the feature type from the category-grouped picker. Each type shows a geometry badge — Point, Line, or Area — so you know what you'll be drawing.

   

3. Draw the geometry on the map:

   • Point — click once to place it.
   • Line or Area — click to add each point, then press Esc to finish. Ctrl+Z undoes the last point.

4. Fill in the optional name, attributes, and notes in the form. (All fields are optional.)

5. Click Save.

Features drawn here are recorded with a capture method of Drawn on portal.

Editing a feature

1. Click the feature on the map, or select it in the feature list.

2. Click Edit.

3. Update the name, attributes, or notes.

4. To change the shape, redraw the geometry from the same panel: for Line features use Redraw line feature; for points and areas, drag the geometry directly on the map (the form keeps your name, notes, and attributes).

5. Click Update to save your changes.

   

Deleting a feature

1. Select the feature to open its detail panel.

2. Click Delete (the bin icon).

3. Confirm the inline Delete? prompt by clicking Yes (or No to back out).

Deleting a feature archives it (a soft-delete): it's removed from the map and from mobile devices on their next sync. There's no in-app restore, so double-check before confirming.

Working through many features

If you have a lot of features to update — for example, renaming all the irrigation headers after a numbering change — use the Search box and the category chips in the map header's Features filter panel to find what you need, then edit each one in turn. Searching across names, types, categories, and attribute values makes it quick to pull up just the features you care about.

Tidying up the map

When a vineyard has a lot of features, you can declutter the map without deleting anything:

• Hide a single feature using the eye icon next to it in the list (the tooltip reads "Hide from map by default"; on a hidden feature it reads "Show on map by default"). Hidden features stay in your data but drop off the map.

• Filter the layer from the Features button in the map header. Clicking it opens a Filters panel with a master Show on map switch for the whole features layer, a Show hidden features switch that reveals anything marked hidden by default, and one colour-coded chip per category — click a chip to hide or show that category.

• The list mirrors the map — categories you hide from the Filters panel drop out of the sidebar list as well as the map.

• A count badge on the Features button shows how many filters are active, and the panel has a Reset link to clear them. If your filters leave nothing to show, the list reads No features match and offers a Clear filters button.

• Filter choices are remembered per organisation, so the map comes back the way you left it.

  

Managing categories and types

The list of categories and types available to your organisation is managed separately. If your team is routinely adding features as a generic type because the one they need doesn't exist, that's a sign the taxonomy needs updating — have a chat with whoever manages your organisation's configuration.

Tips

• Do a tidy-up pass after a mapping day. It's easier to fix small mistakes in attributes from the portal with a proper keyboard than from a phone in the field.
• Use the portal to standardise names — especially if multiple people are adding features from different devices.
• Check the capture method before redrawing a feature — RTK-captured geometry is usually far more accurate than anything drawn by hand on the portal.