The new Event Form Editor, now in beta, gives administrators a simple, visual way to build and update the forms their teams use in the field, with no specialized knowledge required.
What's new?
The Event Form Editor replaces complex configuration steps and introduces a clean and intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Administrators can now:
- Quickly create and organize event categories and types
- Easily add fields like choice lists, text boxes, locations, and dates
- Customize layouts with headers and sections to better match how their team captures and organizes information
- Set default values, required fields, and visibility settings in just a few clicks
Interested in capturing something new for your site, like snowpack monitoring, to better understand climate change impacts? You can now create a “Snowpack Monitoring” category and add a “Snow Observation” event type with exactly the fields you need.
No more dealing with raw JSON and pinging the EarthRanger team for help. Now it’s as easy as dragging and dropping.
Why it matters
We know our partners in the field need tools that keep up with their fast-moving world. Be it a newly sighted species, a sudden threat, or a local priority, partners on the ground can now configure EarthRanger on their terms. This update makes it easier for teams to manage their own workflows while still having the backing of the EarthRanger team when needed. It’s about giving those on the frontlines with more flexibility and confidence to adapt forms to fit their strategies, information needs, and daily operations.
By putting more control in the hands of those closest to the work, the Event Form Editor frees up the EarthRanger team to focus on more complex and evolving challenges. It also helps partners build a stronger connection between what they see in the field and how that information gets used, whether that’s spotting trends, improving reports, or informing real-time decisions that protect wildlife and support communities.
What's next
The Event Form Editor is now in beta and available to all EarthRanger administrators through the Administration screen. We’ll continue to gather feedback over the coming months as we move toward a general release later this year.
We’re already working on the next set of improvements, many based on ideas and requests from partners in the field. Features like conditional logic, role- and device-specific views, visual updates, and multi-language support build on what we’ve heard so far and aim to make EarthRanger easier to use in the future.