How to Use Groups
Managing a large collection without grouping means scrolling through every animal every time you need to act on a rack, a project line, or a clutch cohort. This guide shows you how to create groups and use them to organize animals and run bulk actions in ReptiDex.
Groups let you organize animals into labeled collections -- by rack, enclosure, breeding project, genetic trait, or anything that makes sense for your operation. Once animals are in a group you can take bulk actions on all of them at once.
Navigate to Groups in the left sidebar (web) or tap Groups in the bottom tab bar (mobile).
Creating a Group
Web: Click + Create Group in the top right. Enter a name, optional description, type, and pick a color. Click Create Group.
Mobile: Tap the + button. Same fields -- name, description, type, color.
Group types help you categorize what the group represents (e.g. Project, Location, Genetics). Color makes groups easy to spot at a glance across the app.
Adding Animals to a Group
Web: Expand a group card and click + Add Animals to select animals from your collection.
Mobile: Open a group and tap + Add Animals.
You can also assign an animal to a group from its detail page. Groups the animal belongs to appear in the Quick Stats panel on web and in the edit form on mobile.
Bulk Actions from a Group
Expand a group to see its members and available bulk actions. On web, each group expands inline with Bulk Weigh and Bulk Status buttons. On mobile, open the group detail page to see the full bulk actions panel.
Available bulk actions
Web: Bulk Weigh, Bulk Status
Mobile: Weights, Status, Notes, Feedings, Sheds
Select the action, choose which animals in the group to apply it to, and confirm. For bulk weight entry, leave any field blank to skip that animal.
Group Statistics
The group detail page shows aggregate stats for the group: total animals, average weight, and breeding pairs. Useful for tracking a project line or comparing weight trends across a rack.
Tips
- Use groups for rack or enclosure assignments so you can weigh or update the status of a whole shelf at once.
- Project groups are great for tracking a specific genetic line across multiple breeding seasons.
- On mobile, feedings and sheds can be logged in bulk from a group -- useful for logging a feeding day across a group of animals at once.