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# Managing Horse Health Documents

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## **Managing Horse Health Documents**

This guide covers how to manage horse health documents, like Coggins, vaccinations, and health certificates.

### Configuring Which Documents to Collect

Go to Settings > General > Public Experience to review your configuration options. Check the box for any document you'd like to collect, giving every entry the ability to add that document.

### Adding Validity Rules

For any document, you can optionally require an additional verification step: a valid date rule, which checks that the document is still valid as of the current date. For example, you might add a validity rule for Coggins, while leaving it off for health certificates and vaccinations, then save your settings.

### Reviewing Documents on an Entry

Once configured, you'll see these documents reflected in the verification pop-up on your entries. For most documents, like a health certificate or vaccination record, you'll simply see that the document was provided on the entry.

For a document with a validity rule, like Coggins, there's an extra step: click to view the file, then enter the blood draw date. Once entered, Horse Spot automatically checks whether that date makes the Coggins valid for the current competition.

### **Where Documents Are Stored**

Horse Spot stores each document in the Files tab of the entry, as well as in the Files tab of the horse's profile. This means that if the same horse enters another competition with you while those documents are still valid, whoever submits the entry won't need to upload them again. The documents carry forward automatically, and Horse Spot will let you know the horse already has valid documents on file.


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