System supplied vs User added

Information supplied with Recorder, mainly as part of the dictionaries or term-lists, is marked as 'System-supplied'. Updates (e.g. of dictionaries) supplied via the NBN web site will be similarly marked (see the NBN website).

Users are not allowed to edit information which is marked as system-supplied.

When users make additions to term-lists or add new taxa or biotopes, these entries are distinguished from the centrally supplied and supported entries because they are not marked as system-supplied.

NOTE: New taxa and biotopes that are added by the user, and are therefore not marked as system-supplied, are not exported (which means none of the data associated with them, such as observations, are exported).

To export such data:

In the underlying database, this information is stored in field SYSTEM_SUPPLIED_DATA which is present in many tables. It is a boolean (Yes/No) field.

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