Where do I find it?

You can see a list of the colonies you are tracking by going to Animals > Colonies.

The Colony list

When you click Animals > Colonies, you see a list of all the colonies you've entered. The colony list is a data table, and you can use it in the same way you use the other data tables in your account.

To change information about the colony, click the Edit icon to the left of the name of the colony (a spreadsheet with a pencil). 

You can select an option from the far right of the list to export the list in the view you've chosen to a spreadsheet format. 

Clicking any of the colony names in the list opens the information form you filled out when you added the colony. By clicking Animals from the top of the form, you can see information about the animals located at this colony. By clicking Caretakers, you can see information about those who care for the colony.

For instance, in the form above, you can see the colony has two animals. Clicking the word Animals opens a list of the animals at that colony.

Clicking an animal's name opens the animal detail page for that animal. You can create an animal page for all of your colony animals, they don't have to be up for adoption. Here is the page for Miller, shown in the colony list above.

Likewise, by clicking the Caretakers link, you open a list of the caretakers at this colony, with the option of clicking the Add a Caretaker to this Colony.

Add Caretakers to a colony

Every caretaker for a colony must be a Contact. For detailed information about Contacts, see Contacts, particularly Add, Edit, or Delete Contact. When you click the link for Caretakers, the list of the caretakers for that colony opens (see above).

Click the Add a Caretaker to this Colony button and the caretaker form opens. Select caretakers from the drop-down list of your contacts or add a new contact by clicking the green plus sign on the right of the field. 

Clicking the green plus sign opens the form to add a contact. If you are adding a contact as caretaker for the colony, be sure to click the Caretaker/Foster group in selecting groups to add for this contact.

Add animals to a colony

You add animals to a colony on intake, when you add an animal, or when you edit an animal. Scroll down to the administrative information section and select one of your colonies from the drop-down list. If you haven't entered a colony yet for this animal, you can click the green plus sign to add a colony, or you can save the animal's information and come back later when you have added a colony.

View Colony Caretakers