A dog's microchip number, its breed, its coat colour: until now, you had to open the website to write them. The race-registration file, meanwhile, asked for the chip — and the phone could not enter it. "Add a dog" and "Edit dog" now have, on the phone, the same "More options" section as the website.
What you see
Under the baseline weight, a "More options" button unfolds: the breed (the website's eleven, or "Other" with free text), the coat colour (the website's twelve, or "Other colour"), the microchip and its location (a free field, with four one-tap suggestions: left neck, right neck, between the shoulder blades, shoulder), the completed ultra seasons and "Previously dropped from a team". They are the same lists and the same words as on the website.
The section stays folded while you have nothing to put in it. It opens by itself when you edit a dog that already carries a value — including one entered on the website: a "tricolour" coat that isn't in the list reopens on "Other colour", written out in full.
What others see, and what they don't
The microchip number goes into the registration export ("⋯" menu of Dogs, "Race carnet export"), the file you hand to a race organiser: its "missing" column no longer asks for a chip you have entered. Breed and coat can be read on the website — the dog's page, the list of a race's entrants.
Kennel members see the dog's page according to their role; only the owner edits it. None of it is public: no page, no ranking. The phone itself shows these fields only in the form.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't work offline. Without a connection, a dog can be neither added nor edited: the screen says "Offline — nothing was saved". That is a gap, not a choice: the phone's dog list is replaced in full at every sync, so an edit kept waiting would be wiped before it left. Making it possible is a separate piece of work, on the roadmap.
- It doesn't enter "guest dog" or "injury history". The first is deliberate: a loaned dog has its own story (who lent it, until when), and the phone must never send that marker back and overwrite what the owner set on the website. The second waits for its own update.
- It doesn't import a whole pack from a file. That import stays on the website.
Two choices we made
One request, and only what changed. Saving a record sends only what you touched since opening it. Otherwise, a dog whose breed you entered this morning on the website, opened on a phone that hasn't synced yet, would see that breed wiped by a simple name change. Erasing stays possible: emptying a field is a gesture, and it is sent. And everything goes out in one request.
A duplicate chip leaves nothing half-written. A microchip number is unique within a kennel. If it is already another dog's, the server refuses the whole request: "Nothing was saved: the submitted dog was not added or changed", in the website's words. The chip field is marked until the number changes, and what you typed stays on screen. Two separate requests could have saved the name and refused the chip — and said the same sentence over a half-written record.