The GIA Field app
Getting the app onto your phone
The field app is installed for you by your team — there is nothing to download from a store.
Where to find it
Your team or administrator your phone
Before you start
Someone from your team to install it, and a connection for the first sign-in afterwards.
GIA Field is not listed in the App Store or on Google Play. It is put onto GIA phones directly, so there is no download link to look for and nothing to buy or set up yourself.
Steps
- 1 Ask your team or your administrator to install GIA Field for you. They do it either on a phone they hand over to you, or on the phone you already use while you are with them.
- 2 Tell them whether your phone is an iPhone or an Android. The app runs on both, and works the same way on each.
- 3 When they are finished, look for the GIA Field icon on your home screen alongside your other apps.
- 4 Open it once before you leave, while you still have a connection and someone from your team on hand.
- 5 Sign in with your work email and your officer portal password — see Signing in on the app.
- 6 Make sure the phone has a screen lock on it. The app holds your growers' names, phone numbers and email addresses.
What you'll see
The app opens on its sign-in card, headed GIA Field App, and stays on the phone from then on. You open it like any other app, with or without reception.
Good to know
New versions are installed the same way, by your team — the app does not update itself from a store. If the icon disappears after a phone is replaced, reset or wiped, there is nothing you can restore yourself: ask your team to install it again.
Important
Do not wait until you are at a nursery to open the app for the first time. Until it has signed in once and copied your growers onto the phone, there is nothing on the device to work with.
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