Completing trouble spots

Platform: Mobile (Archer Setup app)

Completing a trouble spot is how you tell Archer (and the rest of your team) that the issue has been dealt with. The typical workflow is:

Open the mobile app.
Use Near me to find the closest pending spots.
Walk or drive to each in turn.
Deal with the issue.
Tap Mark complete.

Before you start

You're signed in to the mobile app and in the right management group.
You have the tools/materials you need to actually resolve the spots you're working on.
GPS is healthy so you can navigate accurately.

Finding spots to work on

Open the Trouble spots screen and make sure you're on the Near me tab.
Set the distance filter to something sensible for how you're moving — 500 m if you're walking a block, a few km if you're driving between blocks.
Pick a group (for example, "Powdery mildew — 8 spots") and open it to see individual spots.

📷 Screenshot: Near me tab expanded to show individual spots sorted by distance.

Navigating to a spot

Tap a spot in the list to open its detail view. You'll see:

Distance and bearing from your current position.
A map showing the pin, optionally with your location.
Row and distance-down-the-row (if known) — this is often the fastest way to find a spot in a real vineyard, since GPS can be ambiguous between adjacent rows.

Use the distance and row info to walk to the spot.

📷 Screenshot: Trouble spot detail view with distance, block, and row info.

Marking complete

Once you've dealt with the issue, tap Mark complete on the spot's detail view. The app records:

The completion time.
Your user name as the person who completed it.

The spot disappears from the Near me list immediately and appears in the Completed tab.

📷 Screenshot: Mark complete confirmation.

Tips

Use row numbers, not just GPS, to locate spots. In a tight-rowed vineyard, GPS alone can put you one row off. Trust the row number the app shows you.
If you're working through a group of similar spots, keep the group open. After marking one complete, the next-nearest one in the group is right there.
If the spot is gone or was a false alarm, it's still better to mark it complete than to leave it pending. You can add a note explaining what you found before marking complete.

Completing spots from a work order

If someone has grouped a batch of spots into a work order — for example, "all today's powdery mildew in Block 4" — you'll see that work order on the Work Orders tab. Opening it and tapping a spot takes you to the field map in a focus session: the work order's spots are emphasised and everything else is dimmed. The completion flow for each individual spot is the same as described above (walk up, resolve, Mark complete), and the work order's progress updates as you go. See Working a work order for the full field-side flow.