Training Videos
Updated June 2026
- Installing BRAHMS
- How to open the software zip and install the BRAHMS application
- Installing the conifer demo database
- Download and link your BRAHMS application to the demo conifer database
- Reindexing your database
- Optimise database performance by reindexing your database
- BRAHMS setup options
- Check out some BRAHMS setup options, for example, how to display your data grids
- Adding user permissions
- How to control the data and functions different users can access
- Window docking
- How to position different data windows, maps and images
- Using shortcuts
- Using F Keys to optimise efficiency
- Using the Column Manager
- Choose which data fields you need to see in the data grids and save/share useful views.
- Using the data grid filter row
- How to query/filter yolur data grids usinhg the grid filter row.
- Using the multi-search tool
- Add a list of search terms for any field to quicky search your database
- Calculated fields
- What are calculated fields... and how to keep them up to date
- Tag functions
- Using tags to mark and select your data records
- Using the summary tool
- Rapidly count and create summaries of you data for any selected column
- Deleting records
- The 2 stages of record deletion
- Read-only fields and table relations
- Why are some fields read-only and how are tables related?
- Using the internal ArcGIS mapper
- Mapping your data records using the flexible BRAHMS ArcGIS mapper
- Creating a checklist based on a map search
- How to search a map area and then use the selected data to make a species checklist
- Creating a map using QGIS (video by Tim Pearce)
- Using open source QGIS to map from BRAHMS
- Using the Map Point Editor
- Adding and updating map points usingh the BRAHMS map editor
- Auto linking images to data
- Auto-linking images to your data records using a three stage process
- Adding custom fields
- Adding and naming your own data storage fields to BRAHMS tables
- Using the RDE Collection Matching Tool
- Speed up specimen data entry when using RDE and avoid re-entry of existing records
- Transferring data from Excel to RDE
- How to transfer data from your Excel .xlsx files into RDE
- RDE to BRAHMS transfers
- Importing data from RDE into your main BRAHMS database
- Adding dynamic weblinks
- How to add, import and use dynamic website links