Android Posts, Reviews, Check-Ins, and Reports

Overview

Use Android social and contribution tools to share photos and stories, leave reviews, check in at places, and report conditions, incidents, or hazards. Contributions are attached to a place in the current community.

Available contribution types depend on the community, place, account, and challenge. Some places may show Posts, Check-Ins, Reviews, Reports, hunting check-ins, challenge photo submissions, or questionnaires.

Find Social Activity

Open a place page and use the Social tab to see posts, check-ins, reviews, reports, and official updates connected to that place.

Use Type filters when they are available to narrow the feed. Pull down to refresh when you want to check for newer activity.

To review your own activity, open your profile area and use the Social section. You can also open another visitor profile to see public activity when profile viewing is available.

Create a Contribution

1. Open the place you want to contribute to.
2. Tap Create or the contribution action.
3. Choose Post, Check In, Review, or Report when options are shown.
4. Sign in if prompted.
5. Add the requested details, such as text, photo, rating, report activity, date, or location details.
6. Choose a visibility option when the app shows one.
7. Tap Post or the submit action for the contribution type.

Visibility options can include Public, Private, and Organizations Only. Child accounts and some organization accounts may have different visibility rules.

Add Photos and Ratings

Posts and check-ins can include a photo. Tap Add a Photo, then choose Take a Photo or Choose a Photo. Animated images are not supported for contribution photos.

Reviews include a star rating and text about your experience. If you already reviewed a location, OuterSpatial may tell you the location has already been reviewed or open the existing review for editing.

Check in and Add Challenges

Check-ins use Android location access to confirm you are near the selected place. Allow location access when prompted.

If the app cannot confirm that you are near the place, it may ask whether you want to check in anyway. Some challenge check-ins require location permission and may not allow repeated check-ins for the same challenge location.

When a place is part of a challenge, the check-in flow can show Add to Challenge. Choose the challenge when you want the check-in to count toward challenge progress.

Submit Reports

Reports help organizations understand conditions, incidents, and hazards.

The report flow can ask for:

• Activity.
• Date and time.
• Location details.
• Condition, incident, or hazard type.
• Additional report questions.
• A summary before submission.

If you close the report flow before submitting, your answers are discarded.

Like, Comment, Share, and Report Content

Open a post to view details. You can like, comment on, or share posts when those actions are available.

Use the post menu to report someone else's post, mute an account, or manage your own post. For your own posts, available actions can include Edit, Delete, or Sync Post.

You can report comments from comment menus when a comment needs review.

Edit, Delete, and Sync Your Posts

You can edit your own posts when Edit is available. You can delete your own posts from the post menu.

Deleting a post cannot be undone. If a post is connected to a challenge response, deleting it can also delete that challenge response.

If your connection drops while creating a post, OuterSpatial can ask whether you want to save it on your device. Saved offline posts can be submitted later with Sync Post when you have a network connection.

Troubleshooting

If you cannot create or interact with a contribution:

1. Make sure you are signed in.
2. Complete any profile, age, or guardian-approval steps the app asks for.
3. Check your internet connection.
4. Turn on Android location access for check-ins and challenge location tasks.
5. Confirm you are in the community where the place or post is available.
6. Pull down to refresh the social feed or reopen the place page.
7. Update OuterSpatial from Google Play.

If you are still stuck, contact Visitor Success at visitors@outerspatial.com.