Copy a year

Copying a year means transporting the data entered for one year to a new year or to a new version of a year. In copying, you can decide which data are copied

Why would you want to copy a year?

You may want to copy a year if:

• your data for this year are very similar to those for last year
• you want to find out how an environmental measure would affect your Envirometer. You can test the measure in the copied year and compare the results.

Making a copy

How to copy a year:

1. Go to ‘settings’; you will see ‘settings > Envirometers’.
2. Open the Envirometer of which you want to copy the year by clicking on the title. 
3. Click next to the year you want to copy on 'copy' (green characters).
4. Fill in the entry screen
• Title
• Only if you copy an existing year.
• Keep it short (preferably to a maximum of 20 characters)
• A title is obligatory if the year already exists in this Envirometer.
• Year ...
• Select the year desired.
• ‘Mark all data as preliminary...’
• Select this option if you want to indicate that the copied data are not final.
• The status of the data is copied from the original.
• ‘Copy notes’
• Decide whether you want your notes on the environmental data to be copied as well.
5. Click ‘save’.

You may now adjusting the data of the copied year by going to enter data.