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<row>
 <cell type="label" labelfor="15"/>
 <cell type="field" id="15" name="guid" uitype="textareabrief" colspan="2" rows="3"/>
 </row>

Adding 'show GUID' to the Locality form

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<cell type="field" id="4" name="geoRefVerificationStatus" uitype="checkbox" colspan="2"/>

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Adding Collection Object subform to the Field Notebook Page subform
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For our purposes (in the CollectionObjectSub viewdef) I took 'project number' and 'collection name' out of the subform and changed the catalog number to span 5 columns. 
 




Workbench Uploader Changes.
These changes affect all users immediately. These files are found locally on your computer here C:\Program Files (x86)\Specify\config
When you alter these xml files they only impact the computer you are working on. If you want all users on all computers to have these changes, then all computers must be updated. 
Adding changes to the Chronostrat tree in the workbench uploader
near line 604-612 635 670 in the specify_workbench_datamodel.xml file
<table classname="edu.ku.brc.specify.datamodel.GeologicTimePeriod" table="geologictimeperiod" tableid="46" lazy="true">
 <display objtitle="Geologic Time Period"/>
 <field column="Erathem/Era" name="erathem/era" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 <field column="System/Period" name="system/period" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 <field column="Sub-System/Period" name="sub-system/period" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 <field column="Series/Epoch" name="series/epoch" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 <field column="Sub-Series/Epoch" name="sub-series/epoch" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 <field column="Stage/Age" name="stage/age" type="java.lang.String" length="64"/>
 </table>
near line 478-483 496 570 in the specify_workbench_upload_def.xml
<!-- geologictimeperied -->
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="erathem/era" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="100"/>
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="system/period" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="200"/>
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="sub-system/period" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="250"/>
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="series/epoch" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="300"/>
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="sub-series/epoch" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="350"/>
 <field table="GeologicTimePeriod" name="stage/age" treename="geologictimeperiod" maptofield="name" rankid="400"/>
 

Adding Preparation 'Status' to the uploader
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<field table="Preparation" name="status 1" actualname="status" onetomanysequence="0" relationshipname="collectionObject"/>
 
 
 
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