Data Portal Tutorials
This guide was developed to instruct users of the CCH2 Portal, the Symbiota instance used by the California Phenology TCN, in basic use of the portal and its many available tools.
​This guide is under constant development. If you would like to request additional content for the guide or other training materials, please fill out the form on the Document Library page.
The Symbiota website also hosts a great deal of documentation from other projects:

Symbiota Training Videos

Short introductory videos on navigating the Symbiota portal and editing administrative permissions can be found on the LepNet website. Note that these tutorials are conducted on the SCAN portal, but the same general principles apply to any Symbiota portal.

Other Symbiota Instructions

Helpful instructions on using a Symbiota portal are included in the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) Thematic Collections Network Training Manual, but note that our workflow and portal differ from MAM's. Much of the CAP TCN portal guide was adapted from this manual. 

Uploading Data from a CSV File

Example instructions on how to upload a comma-separated value (.csv) file containing specimen data can be found on the Microfungi Collections Consortium website.