Updated on 4 May 2026
This page lists the improvements and new TerraIndex features rolled out in April.
Below you will first find the highlights of this release.
Scroll down for the full overview of all improvements and changes.
Highlights
Environmental Field: visual indication of filtered bottles
A visual indication now shows whether a bottle has been filtered, giving you a clear overview at a glance.
Environmental Field: skipping the first layer
When creating several soil samples, you can now choose to skip the first layer. This is useful when the top layer consists of non-soil material that is not sampled.
Archaeology Field: additional media fields
Additional media fields have now been added in Archaeology Field
Full overview
New additions:
Environmental Field
- You can visually see whether bottles have been filtered
- You can now sign off samples and measurement points in bulk
- The last stable series for water samples is now automatically copied into the fields as stable values
- You can now automatically skip the first soil layer
- Zoom buttons added to the map
- KML layers with overly long names are now readable at several levels
- The asbestos icon was shown in schematic views even when the field indicated that no asbestos had been found
- Layers are now shown in the schematic view of monitoring wells
- The server handles long synchronisations better
- The contact type field has been added for involved contacts
- Photos not yet uploaded can now be downloaded locally to help safeguard photos that have not yet been synchronised
- You can now download individual photos
Archaeology Field and Office
- Higher camera resolution to meet KNA requirements, a new underlying camera engine and the ability to retrieve camera data and save it in the application, such as direction or camera type. This depends on whether the platform actually provides those data.
- New fields for uploading documents and photos in bulk
- Additional media fields, also included during bulk uploads
- User-defined field sorting is now remembered when switching screens
- After splitting a find, the screen navigates to the first split find
Technical improvements
- Underlying software updated
Bug fixes:
Environmental Web
- Backend fix for fields that were not correctly linked to their SIKB code
- Bug in the reporting module fixed
- Bug causing many errors when the server received no borehole setting fixed
Environmental Field
- Backend fix for fields that were not correctly linked to their SIKB code
- The backup system is more robust and produces fewer corrupt files
- Uploading or synchronising too many photos in a project on an iPad can cause it to restart due to insufficient memory
- Amorphicity and Peat always remained visible regardless of template settings; this has been fixed
- After scanning all samples in the scanning dialog, the first barcode was overwritten when the user continued on iPad
- Switching cameras works again in the barcode scanner
- Information fell outside the screen on small displays; this has been fixed
- An invalid character in a barcode field no longer causes a crash during synchronisation
- New projects were not downloaded correctly, causing duplicate measurement points with an "_n" suffix on the server. This has been fixed
- Issue with starting TerraIndex Field for the first time resolved
- A white screen can occur after an update during the day. Initial fixes have been implemented and logging added to help investigate further
- When using GPStoHTTP, coordinates were not always sent correctly and Z values were not saved correctly. This has been fixed
- Signatures are now saved as JPG instead of PNG
- The barcode scanner works offline again
- When a user was removed from a project in Web, the latest project changes were no longer synchronised. They are synchronised again
- A possible fix has been rolled out for the white screen some users experience when updating the app
- On devices with limited memory, photos are now uploaded in batches of eight, which should prevent crashes
- The app no longer synchronises automatically at startup, giving users time to make a backup
- Bug causing many errors when the server received no borehole setting fixed
Archaeology Field and Office
- Archaeology login issues resolved
- Bug that kept deleted media visible in the project sidebar fixed
- Bug that kept deleted media visible in the project sidebar fixed
- The server could not handle the reason for a data change request; this has been fixed
- A simple data change triggered multiple update requests from the app to the server, causing overload. This has been fixed
- Stability of automated frontend tests improved
- The backup system did not work correctly; this has been fixed
- A user with licence A can no longer send backups for a user with licence B on the same tablet
- Finds linked in a loop no longer cause synchronisation to continue indefinitely
- Opening a finds list in Archaeology Office no longer produces an error