Adding Evidence Items to the Evidence Vault
You can add evidence to your evidence vault at any time. It is a great place to store articles,
URLs, blog posts, videos, audio files, document files and also tweets that relate to your
project and the impact(s) that have occurred.
It is recommended that as soon as you come across something that you think might link well to
one of your projects, you upload it as an item to your evidence vault. This is to ensure key
evidence items, such as webpages and tweets, are not lost or forgotten about!
Evidence can be added either directly to the Project Evidence Vault within a specific project, or
you can save evidence items to your My Evidence Vault, which works in the same way but does
not necessarily link an evidence item to a specific project. Your My Evidence Vault is more like a
structured storage area for all the pieces of evidence that you think you may want to link to
projects in the future but aren’t necessarily working on or are live in ImpactTracker right now.
The below steps will walk you through how to add evidence items to a Project Evidence Vault
both manually and through installing and using the Google Chrome ImpactTracker Webclipper
Add-on. The same steps can be applied when adding evidence items to your My Evidence
Vault.
Manually adding an evidence item to the Evidence Vault:
1. From within the Project Evidence Vault select the ‘Add Evidence’ button if you are
wanting to associate the evidence item with a specific project, or select the My Evidence
Vault button in the top right of the screen if you are wanting to add the evidence item to
your general evidence “store”.
Note: If you want to import an evidence item that you have already saved to My Evidence Vault, you will need to select the My Evidence Vault button, and you will be shown a list of all available evidence items which you can select from and import into the Project Evidence Vault.
2. Start by selecting the evidence type from the drop down list available:
a. File Upload:- This can be a document, video clip or audio file you have saved to
your computer or device.
2.a.i. You will need to specify the title of the evidence item you wish to store.
2.a.ii. You will then need to select from your computer or device the file you wish
to store as your evidence item. You can then add a description if desired, select the project you want to link the evidence item to and then select the desired security level. The security level refers to which users you want to be able to see and have access to the evidence item.
b. Free Text:- This option allows you to type/add free text describing or explaining
the evidence you wish to capture and add.
2.b.i. You will need to specify the title of the evidence item you wish to store.
2.b.ii. You can add a description if desired, then select the project you want to link
the evidence item to and finally you will need to select the desired security level. As above, the security level refers to which users you want to be able to see and have access to the evidence item.
3. Once you have selected the evidence type to be added click on the retrieve button. 
Note: Depending on the type and size of the web page you are wanting to capture and store, the retrieval process can take a few moments.