New Features & Efficiency Tips | 2025

The IrisBG Community frequently provides feedback for how IrisBG could be better. It is these feature requests that that are highlighted during our September Coffee Chat.  Shanna T. Jones gives a practical walkthrough of new features available in the updates released in 2025. These include:

• Updates to the Garden Explorer,
• The New Observation Module,
• Custom Item Attributes,
• New Report Filters, and more. 

The IrisBG team will highlight the most useful new tools and share time-saving techniques. All of the updates have a new release article published and those articles can be found linked in the images below.

Thanks to all of you who joined us! The Coffee Chat attendees were more experienced users with 60% intermediate users, 26% advanced users, 7% novice, and 7% trying out the trial.

The map below shows the gardens and arboreta represented by those who registered for the Coffee Chat - home offices not taken into consideration.   

Resources and articles from Shanna’s presentation:

Version 4.5.6.42111 - Date: 2024-11-12 

Version: 4.6.2.25081 - Date: 2025-08-26 

Other links mentioned in the presentation:

• IrisBG Coffee Chat: Combating illegal trade of cacti & succulents (opens in a new tab)
• IrisBG Fields defined: Taxonomic Groups (opens in a new tab)
• IrisBG Coffee Chat | Recordkeeping for seasonal displays (opens in a new tab)
• Observations | Record phenology data (opens in a new tab)
• Standardize settings in Excel for IrisBG reports (opens in a new tab)
• Mobile data collection tutorials (opens in a new tab)
• Subscribe to the IrisBG newsletter (opens in a new tab)