Quick start guide
Welcome to passapp – your all-in-one tool for air quality sampling projects. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the key features of passapp , from project planning to results analysis. Whether you’re a new user or just need a refresher, this tutorial will help you get started quickly and navigate passapp with confidence.
User account
Step 1: Setting up your user account
Log in, update your details, and adjust your basic settings to get started quickly and confidently with passapp.
User Profile: Keep your personal information and login details up to date at any time. This ensures your profile is always accurate and secure, giving you full control over your account.
Company Settings: As an Account Manager, you can edit important company details, such as the official company name and the preferred language for your team. This makes sure the app reflects your organization’s identity and way of working.
Team Management: In the Team tab, you can easily add new members, edit their details, or remove users if needed. This flexibility helps you build and maintain a team that matches your current projects.
Roles & Access: User roles define what each person can do in passapp. A Project Manager can create and edit projects, while a regular User can view projects and manage samplings. With the right access for every role, your workflow stays clear and organized.
Plan project
Step 2: Planning a Project
Learn how to plan a project in passapp step by step — from creating a new project and selecting samplers to defining sampling sites, assigning team members, and generating a planning protocol.
Project Overview: See all your projects with a traffic-light color code for status. Inactive projects are under “Archive” for quick reference.
Creating a New Project: Define the project name and duration, add pollutants, and select sampling sites from the list or create new ones via form or map.
Sampling Sites & Quality: Indicate field blanks or reference samplings, and add notes or photos for reference.
Team & Roles: Assign team members. Project Managers can create and edit projects; Users can view projects and manage samplings.
Planning Protocol & Materials: Review samplers and materials, save the project, generate a planning protocol, and submit a quotation request.
Sampling
Step 3: Managing samplings in the field
Document every step of your fieldwork — start and stop samplers, add notes, photos, and track all sampling details with ease.
Active Projects: In the Samplings section, see all projects with active samplings and choose the one you’re working on.
Starting a Sampling: At the site, select the correct sampler type, fill in the required labels, and press Start.
Working Through Sites: Repeat this process until all samplers have been exposed. You can also add comments or photos, creating clear documentation for later reference.
Stopping Samplings: Once the exposure period has elapsed, return to the project to stop the samplings. You can start the next one immediately or come back later.
Completing the Project: Continue this process for each sampling period. When all samplers and periods have been finalized, the project is marked as complete.
Protocols
Step 4: Generating and managing sampling protocols
Learn how to generate and manage sampling protocols in passapp, enter optional temperature and air pressure, add comments, and save or submit protocols — keeping all your project data accurate and organized.
Protocols Overview: Once all samplers at all sites are stopped, the sampling period is complete. Open the Protocols section to see your projects, each marked with the traffic-light status. Click a sampler to view its sampling periods.
Creating Protocols: Open a period to enter optional values like temperature and air pressure, either globally or per site. Add comments if needed. Click Save to generate a protocol, which appears in orange, or Save and Send to submit it directly for analysis — it then appears in green.
Project Completion: Each protocol contains all essential info: sampling sites, contact person, temperature and air pressure, and comments. Repeat for all samplers to fully complete the sampling period and ensure every detail is documented.