Registering and setting up your profile in OverseerFM

A new way of accessing, storing and sharing farm information

OverseerFM software creates a new way of accessing, storing, and sharing farm information. The software places the farm account at the centre of the system, and the farm owner (or manager) decides who can have access to the farm account, creating a one stop shop for analysis.

This fact sheet explains some new terminology and describes how to register to use the software and how to set up organisations. This information is also available in the full user guide.

With a new system comes some new terms.

Every user that registers is placed into an organisation. A user can only belong to one organisation at a time but can move between organisations.

An organisation contains one or more users. This may be an actual organisation, a user group or it may hold an individual user. Every user registered within an organisation has access to all the farm accounts within that organisation.

Every organisation has an administrator, who sets up the organisation and can add or remove other users, and also add additional administrators.

Registering with OverseerFM

All users of OverseerFM will need to register, including previous users of the legacy OVERSEER Nutrient Budgets software. User registrations are set up to provide for both individual users and organisations with multiple users.

Note that farm account access is associated with an organisation, so if you move from one organisation to another, you will no longer have access to the farms in your first organisation, and will inherit access to the farms of the organisation you have moved to.

Registering your user profile

All you need to register for OverseerFM is your name, email address and password.

Overseer automatically creates an organisation for every user profile, which defaults to your user’s name. You can edit this name and invite other users to join your organisation (see ‘Setting up your organisation’ below).

If you have registered a user profile, and now want to be part of an organisation, you will need to arrange for the organisation administrator to send you an invitation.

What you will see when registering your user profile

1. Navigate to https://fm.overseer.org.nz and select register. Enter your email, name and create a password. Please make sure you read the Terms of Use, checking the box 'I agree to the terms of use' means you accept them. Then click Register.
   
   
2. You will be shown the following screen. Check your inbox for an email with a link to verify your account. If you entered your email incorrectly select your name (at the top right of screen) and edit your email before clicking to resend the activation email. Please remember to check your junk mail folder if the verification email doesn’t arrive in your inbox.
   
   
3. Once activated you will be shown your Dashboard. OverseerFM automatically creates an organisation when you register. The organisation will have the name that you entered when you registered. If you want to operate as an individual user, you do not need to do anything.  If you need to create an organisation that will include multiple users see creating and managing an organisation in OverseerFM
   
   

4. You can now create or search for an existing farm.