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Getting Started

The starting point for Tangerine is dependent on what your role with the product will be. Are you a Project Manager looking to deploy Tangerine to help you manage data collection in your next project? Are you a Systems Administrator working on the back-end to make sure that Tangerine is operational on your company's technology? Or are you a forms developer, taking the questions for the survey and creating the digital forms in Tangerine, or are you a in the field data collector actually running the surveys? Depending on which of these roles fits will define where you should start. If you fall into multiple roles, try to follow this documentation path System Administrator -> Project Manager -> Forms Editor -> Data Collector. Use the tables below to determine your starting point.

Since Tangerine is an open-source platform, you are welcome to develop off of our code if you wish. Go to the Tangerine Community to see the code or navigate to our Developer Guide.

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Roles

Role Function Skill Set User Guide
System Administrator Install and implement the technical side of Tangerine. AWS, SSL, SSH, running script in Terminal, Server/DB Management System Administrator Guide
Project Manager Manages the technical aspects of the project. What and how data should be collected, defining how the project works within the Tangerine platform, and deploying the project in the field. Project Management, Data Collection Methodology
Forms Editor Converts surveys into a digitial form using the Tangerine Form Editor and/or Javascript. Web Form Editor, Javascript (For Advanced Functions only) Form Editor Guide
Data Collector Field Level Data collector, administers surveys, directly handles devices loaded with Tangerine Survey and Data Collection Data Collector Guide

Overview of How Tangerine Works

Case to Group to Form - How they interact with each other

Flow Chart of Interactions