The soil moisture gauge is a feature that allows you to set field water capacity, refill and stress level points and have these reflected as a 'soil moisture gauge' on the left hand side your graph.
Follow the below steps to apply the soil moisture gauge to your graph.
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Check your soil moisture data is calibrated to %VWC (you will need to be logged in at admin level)
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Go to the sites list within your login and select the spanner icon on the site the graph relates to
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Click on the calibration of the soil moisture data
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As shown below, select standard, enter %VWC as the unit and soil moisture as the category and then select update
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Repeat this for every level of soil moisture
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Enter your refill, full and stress levels.
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Select the graph you would like the soil moisture gauge applied and click on it to bring the graph into interactive mode
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Select 'SM' down the bottom of the page. This brings up the below pop up where you can enter your FWC (field water capacity), refill and stress values
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Hit save. Ensure you also save the graph after saving your soil moisture gauge values
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You will now have the soil moisture gauge applied to your graph. Please note that the values can be changed at anytime and should be constantly reviewed.