First steps

You've installed GeoDin Onsite and activated your license. This page walks through creating your first form end-to-end — just enough to see the full workflow from start to finish in about ten minutes. For deeper coverage of any step, follow the links.

Before you start

Open Onsite. The first thing you'll see is the project number confirmation box — Onsite configures itself for one project at a time, and every form you create belongs to that project.

If a project number is already filled in from a previous session or from Configuration → Project, click OK. Otherwise enter one now. Project numbers can contain letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) — no spaces or special characters.

1. Start a new form

From the main menu, click New Form. In the dialog, choose G1 Drilling Report — it's the most common form type and the one we'll use as an example here.

2. Enter the basics

The G1 Drilling Report is a multi-page form. Start with the first page and fill in:

• Location identifier (for example, BH-1)

• Drilling method — choose from the dropdown

• At least one row on the borehole design page (from–to depth, method)

Fields highlighted in red are mandatory. Fields shown in black are optional — you can leave them for now.

If your device has a GPS chip or an external Bluetooth GPS receiver, you can use Record position to capture coordinates automatically. See GPS & coordinates to configure your GPS source.

3. Validate

Click the Validate button (the ticks icon, top-left of the form). Onsite checks that every mandatory field is complete and shows the results:

• If the form is valid, the Invalidation window closes cleanly and you can move on.

• If something is missing, Onsite lists the errors. Fix them and validate again.

4. Export to GeoDin

From the main menu, click Export → GeoDin and choose where to save the file.

Onsite creates a GeoDinML file — a structured XML file ready to import into GeoDin Desktop. The filename follows the standard pattern, for example BH-1_G1DR_20260423.geodinml.

If you have file delivery configured, use Publish instead of Export. Publish sends the file to your team's shared folder automatically and generates a PDF alongside the GeoDinML.

5. Import into GeoDin Desktop (optional)

Open GeoDin Desktop and use its GeoDinML import feature to bring the file into your database. The full Desktop workflow is covered in the GeoDin Desktop docs.

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That's it — you've completed the core loop: configure → create → validate → export.

What's next

Now that you've seen the shape of the workflow, dig into the details:

• G1 drilling report — comprehensive coverage of every page and option in the G1 form

• Exporting to GeoDin — all the export formats Onsite supports

• Core concepts — the mental model behind forms, projects, and file delivery