FAQ: How do I combine multiple visits into a single Work Item?

Occasionally you may conduct multiple visits to a site for data collection that pertains to a single purpose. Most commonly this happens when creating Baselines or when monitoring on very large sites. You can create as many Site Visits as you need to gather your data, then merge them into one Work Item in Landscape to run a single, compiled report.

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Video demonstration

Written instructions

Here's a short video showing how to merge point and photo data from two Site Visits into a single item, then renumbering the results. In this example we are merging them into a Baseline Report, but you could also merge them into a Site Visit, Issue, etc.

Combining map and photo data from multiple items into one item

Prerequisites

• The Site Visits you want to combine must already exist on the record.
• You must have the correct permissions to Edit the Work Items.

Instructions

Part 1 — Copying the data

1. Navigate to the record's Work tab and scroll to the category of items you are merging data from.
2. Hover your mouse over an item until a horizontal menu appears. Click the Map button. Do this for each item you will be copying data from.
3. In the map view on the right, click Select multiple features and drag a box around the visible points. The selected points and their photos appear in a side panel.
4. Copy the selected points to another Work Item:
   • Click Create to make a new Work Item and copy the points into it at the same time.
   • Click Copy to choose from your list of existing Work Items.
5. Navigate to the new Work Item to review and/or edit the copied points.

Part 2 — Cleaning up baseline points

6. Once copied, the new Work Item points are separate from the points that you copied. Edit the new ones freely: the original points will stay the same.

• Merge points: Click Edit, hold Shift and click two points, then click Merge.
• Delete points: Click Delete and confirm.

Part 3 — Renumbering points

Points copied from multiple items keep their original numbers, so they can restart partway through (for example, 1 to 13, then 1 to 11 again). The point renumbering tool fixes this in a few clicks.

7. Click Select multiple features and drag a box around all the points.
8. Once the panel loads, click the Table icon to open the point renumbering tool.
9. Click Sort. Sorting by date usually puts points in the right order.
10. Click Renumber to assign each point a new number.
11. Click Rename to rename and relabel the points based on their new numbers.

Your points now run in one continuous sequence (in the video example above, 1 to 23). From here you can edit photo captions as needed and generate your report.