Open this tab to enter biographic information about yourself -- anything that you want other Calflora users to know, such as your particular botanical interests.

Open this tab to join a group, or to check on the recent activity (new observations) of any groups of which you are a member.

Press JOIN ANOTHER GROUP to see a list of open groups. If you see an interesting group, check Join this group under the name.

Press MY GROUPS to see a list of the groups you have joined.

For each group, open activity to see any recent observations, or any recent posts to the group. Open members to see the names of other group members. Open membership options to request email about activity in the group, or to leave the group.

You can comment on any observation record in Calflora. Informed comments can be a helpful source of feedback for the person responsible for an observation.

Open this tab to look up comments you have made about other contributors' observations, or comments that others have made about your observations.

Using Observer Pro with Groups
Choose those groups to which you will be actively contributing data in your next session with Observer Pro.

Groups with Projects:
For each active group, select the projects for which you want to see historical data in Observer Pro. (If no projects are selected for a group, then historical data for all projects will be loaded at the next REFRESH.)
See also LOADING HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS ONTO OBSERVER PRO.

Observer Pro: Background Lines and Polygons
Lines and polygons associated with a group can be loaded into Observer Pro. Use the Background Lines and Polygonsapplication to choose which ones you want.

Photo Sharing
When you add photos to your observations on Calflora, you can choose who else can use those photos. By choosing Calflora use only, you reserve all rights to your photos. By choosing Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial, then others can use your photos for non-commercial purposes as long as they credit you.

Observation Sharing
If you have made observations of rare plants which are either obscured or private, you can make those records -- with their original coordinates -- available to the CDFW California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB). To do so, check one or both flags in this section.

Note that if you have checked the flags, your records will not be pushed to CNDDB. Instead, CNDDB staff will be able to find your records and download them from Calflora.

Links to your Calflora Porfolio
Click on the links to see all of your published records.

Remember to Save!
After any changes, press SAVE PREFERENCES (top right of the page).

COLUMN SETS
You can save a column set by name from Group Observations. All of your saved column sets appear here. They are also available in Group Observations | TOOLS.

You can be notified by email whenever new observation records show up in the database. For instance, you might want to be alerted when any new observation of a certain plant shows up in a certain area.

To set up an alert, first use Observation Search or Group Observations to do a search. Then open TOOLS | SAVED SEARCHES, and save your search by name. Then come back to My Calflora | Alerts.

MY ALERTS
This is a table of your currently defined email alerts. Click to open an edit panel, where you can delete the alert, or change the timing.

AVAILABLE SEARCHES
This is a table of your saved searches that have not yet been used in an email alert. To add one of these searches as an email alert, click to open an edit panel. Select how often to run the search, and press ADD AN ALERT.