Apian Help

Getting started

• What is Apian
• Signing up and signing in
• Where your data is stored
• First setup: apiary, hives and colonies

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Home screen and widgets

• What the home screen shows
• How to choose an apiary
• What widgets are available
• How to add a widget

and 4 more

Apiaries, hives and storage

• How to create an apiary
• How to add a hive
• Why a hive needs coordinates and how to set them on the map
• Hive QR codes: generating and printing

and 3 more

Colonies

• Why Apian separates the colony from the hive
• How to create a colony
• What colony origin means
• How to install a colony in a hive and move it to another

and 3 more

Queens

• What to fill in on a queen record
• What queen statuses mean
• Breeds and traits: what they affect
• Queen marking and the colour code by year

and 3 more

Queen rearing

• What is a queen rearing run?
• How to start a new rearing run
• Rearing milestones
• Can you add your own milestones?

and 2 more

Inspections

• How to record a colony inspection
• What an inspection records
• Queen cells and swarm preparation
• Where to see inspection history

Voice inspections

• How to dictate an inspection instead of filling in a form
• Which models you need to download and how big they are
• Processing modes: audio, text, full parsing
• I work in gloves — how do I record an inspection

and 5 more

Tasks and jobs

• How to create a task
• Task types
• Task targets: hive, apiary, queen
• Linked tasks

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Diseases and treatment

• How to record a disease
• How to record a disease across several hives at once
• Severity and disease status
• How to record a treatment

and 1 more

Swarms, honey harvest and weight

• How to record a swarm
• A caught swarm becomes a new colony
• How to record a honey harvest
• Honey types

and 2 more

Hive components

• What a hive is made of in Apian
• Box types and frame sizes
• How to move a component between hives and storage
• Inserts: a component inside a component

Sync and account

• How sync works
• Data did not appear on the second phone
• What happens if you edit the same record on two phones
• How to export a copy of your data

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Settings

• Interface language
• Units of measurement
• Font size
• App permissions

and 3 more

Privacy and data

• What is stored on the phone and what on the server
• What works offline
• Where voice inspections are transcribed
• How to export or delete your data