A free training workshop to enable participants with some experience of Indicia to develop their skills and build advanced recording websites using Indicia.
Who is the training for?
Places are limited to a maximum of 12 participants who meet the following requirements:
• Familiarity with the content of the Instant Indicia tutorials.
• Basic PHP and SQL skills
• Commitment to developing an Indicia-based online recording portal for their organisation
Course content:
Discussions, presentations and exercises around the following topics:
• Advanced configuration of Drupal prebuilt forms
• Building complex report pages including maps
• Writing custom report queries
• Using triggers to e-mail alerts
• Advanced site building in Drupal, including overriding control HTML templates.
• Writing your own PHP code with the Indicia API
• Authentication and using the warehouse web services.
Additional content if time allows:
• An introduction to GeoServer
Tutors:
John van Breda, BiodiverseIT
Jim Bacon, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Further information:
Indicia Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/indicia/
Indicia chat room: http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/indicia
iRecord website: www.brc.ac.uk/iRecord
To book:
To book a place, please contact Paula Lightfoot, NBN Trust Data Access Officer, at p.lightfoot@nbn.org.uk – Places are limited so please contact Paula as soon as possible if you are interested.
This workshop is funded by Defra through their contract with the NBN Trust for the development of the National Biodiversity Network.