Learn PMA in a practical operating sequence.
Each path orders the most useful articles for a specific job. Cloud users can save progress and resume from Settings → Help & Learning.
New owners and administrators
Start PMA with confidence
Move from an empty account to an operational first collection without skipping foundational decisions.
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Getting started with Project Mad Adder
Choose a starting mode, create the organization, configure species and Housing, add animals, and enter the workspace without losing setup guidance.
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Using the PMA Setup Centre
Resume setup, reopen skipped steps, review readiness, and distinguish recommendations from real blockers.
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Building Housing and facility structure
Create facilities, rooms, racks, stacks, enclosures, incubators, and operational Housing codes in a hierarchy PMA can reason about.
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Creating accurate animal profiles
Add identity, species, sex, status, dates, Housing, feeding defaults, hazards, genetics, and lineage at the right level of certainty.
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Recording daily care evidence
Log feeding, water, cleaning, sheds, waste, health, measurements, environment, and notes without claiming work that was not completed.
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Building and running Guided Rounds
Turn recurring requirements into ordered operational work, confirm each action, and preserve accountable completion evidence.
Keepers, managers, and operations teams
Run dependable daily operations
Build repeatable care, feeding, Guided Round, and daily-command habits with accountable evidence.
- 1
Installing PMA and using mobile, offline sync, camera, QR, and notifications
Install the PMA PWA, understand cached and queued work, resolve synchronization failures, control personal alerts, and assess camera, QR, Capture, and Android-wrapper readiness.
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Recording daily care evidence
Log feeding, water, cleaning, sheds, waste, health, measurements, environment, and notes without claiming work that was not completed.
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Feeding records, defaults, and schedules
Configure feeding defaults, record offered and accepted meals, manage feeder inventory, and understand due-date calculations.
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Building and running Guided Rounds
Turn recurring requirements into ordered operational work, confirm each action, and preserve accountable completion evidence.
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PMA Round Intelligence & Scheduling
Plan recurring Rounds, review capacity and execution, and use the Guided Round Action Library.
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PMA Daily Command
Review the day’s operational picture, urgent work, exceptions, assignments, and evidence without replacing human judgment.
Owners, administrators, and facility managers
Build safer Housing systems
Design Housing structure, reuse governed templates, review capacity, and connect spatial routes.
- 1
Building Housing and facility structure
Create facilities, rooms, racks, stacks, enclosures, incubators, and operational Housing codes in a hierarchy PMA can reason about.
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Housing Templates & Setup Acceleration
Create governed templates, preview differences, protect verified settings, and generate Housing only after explicit review.
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PMA Housing Blueprint
Plan Housing structures, zones, equipment, and hierarchy before operational records are created.
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PMA Housing Setup
Define reusable operational setup profiles for equipment, environment, and maintenance coverage.
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Facility & Capacity Intelligence
Review room capacity, reserved and quarantine space, maintenance concentration, growth scenarios, and proposed moves without changing live records.
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Spatial Routes, Biosecurity & Continuity
Create versioned Guided Round, sanitation, BioShield, Continuity, and emergency-reference routes on measured Spatial Blueprints.
Breeders and genetics-focused keepers
Record genetics without assumptions
Separate display morph text, structured genotype evidence, inheritance results, and lineage certainty.
- 1
Creating accurate animal profiles
Add identity, species, sex, status, dates, Housing, feeding defaults, hazards, genetics, and lineage at the right level of certainty.
- 2
Recording genetics and lineage safely
Record morph display, structured genotype evidence, possible and proven het states, sire, dam, and uncertainty without inventing relationships.
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Genetics Results & Husbandry History
Choose percentage, fraction, odds, or all result formats and inspect per-locus Punnett evidence.
Owners, administrators, and migration leads
Move and protect collection data
Prepare imports, resolve findings, preserve source evidence, export records, and understand recovery boundaries.
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Importing existing data
Upload supported sources, map columns, normalize values, preserve historical dates, and stage records without early authoritative writes.
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Resolving Import Review findings
Filter classifications, inspect duplicate evidence, choose create, update, skip, or manual review, and export rejected rows.
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PMA Migration Bridge
Import recognized external exports through a review project while protecting source IDs and uncertain genetics.
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Reports, exports, and record portability
Generate operational reports, export CSV data, understand filters, and preserve portable evidence without treating a report as live truth.
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PMA Vault — Complete Backup & Restore
Create verified archives, inspect recovery contents, preview restore effects, and use controlled recovery boundaries.
Owners, administrators, managers, and animal businesses
Run connected business operations
Connect Relationships to sales, purchasing, customer balances, supplier balances, receiving, payments, and financial reporting without duplicate entry.
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Relationship Commerce, receivables, and payables
Use one Relationship record to review sales, purchases, invoices, bills, payments, linked animals, balances, aging, and source records without duplicating contacts.
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Sales Orders, invoices, payments, and fulfillment
Create mixed sales orders, issue invoices, record partial or final payments and refunds, and keep financial state separate from physical fulfillment.
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Purchase Orders, supplier bills, payments, and receiving
Order animals, feeders, supplies, or services; receive goods separately; and track supplier bills, payments, refunds, tax, shipping, and balances.
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Reports, exports, and record portability
Generate operational reports, export CSV data, understand filters, and preserve portable evidence without treating a report as live truth.
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Team roles, permissions, and accountability
Understand owner, administrator, manager, keeper, and viewer boundaries before assigning access or operational responsibility.
External beta testers
Join and use the controlled beta safely
Move from invitation through consent, secure account access, support, data export, and responsible staged previews.
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Joining the controlled PMA beta
Accept a single-use invitation, verify the approved email, understand beta cohorts, and complete setup without accidentally creating a second team workspace.
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Account recovery, MFA, and signed-in device safety
Use password reset, email verification, authenticator MFA, recovery codes, session review, and controlled support assistance without exposing authentication secrets.
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Contacting PMA support and sharing safe diagnostics
Create a support case, choose urgency, attach bounded evidence, review replies, and understand what diagnostic information PMA does and does not collect.
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Exporting data and closing an account or organization
Distinguish personal exports, organization exports, account closure, organization closure, ownership transfer, recovery periods, and permanent deletion.
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Beta cohorts and staged feature rollout
Understand why different testers may see different previews and why cohort or percentage rollout never overrides plan entitlements, permissions, or Control Vault authorization.
Progress belongs to the learner
Public guides remain available without an account. Signed-in PMA users can mark articles in progress or complete from the private Help & Learning page. Progress never grants additional permissions or changes collection records.