Using Pisces 

What is Pisces?
Pisces is a software tool for managing BPA's Fish and Wildlife Program. BPA created Pisces to help manage fish and wildlife projects throughout the Columbia River Basin. Pisces provides a collaborative environment, where Contractors and BPA project managers can create and manage Statements of Work based on work elements. Program partners will be able to access reports on all aspects of the program's activity.

Pisces is a web-enabled software tool. After installing the Pisces application, users must have an internet connection and a Pisces account in order to access program information.

Want to use Pisces?
NOTE: At this time, use of Pisces is limited to direct participants in the Fish and Wildlife program. Once all project information has been entered and updated in Pisces, read-only and report-generating access will be made available to the general public.

To request a Pisces account (get a login ID), please click here.

Already have a Pisces account? Download Pisces now.

NOTICE: The official Pisces weekly downtimes are Thursdays, 5:00 pm - midnight, and the 4th Monday of each month, 6:00-8:00 pm. During these times, Pisces may be intermittently offline for maintenance and rollout of new functionality. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Pisces Help
Both content and technical help are available for Pisces, including a number of different FAQs, or Frequently Asked Questions.

Pisces Content help:

• Preparing a Statement of Work using work elements
• Understanding Milestones and Deliverables (PDF)
• Lumping vs. Splitting work elements (PDF)
• Copying and Pasting Work Elements (PDF)
• List of requirements Pisces checks for in the SOW validation report (PDF)
• Status Reporting (PDF)
• September 2005 updates to Pisces functionality (PDF)
• Metrics and Location Data Entry (PDF)
• December 2005 Updates to Pisces Functionality (PDF)
• Focal Species Data Entry (PDF)
• Updating Work Element Budgets (PDF)
• Completion Guide for Entering Required Data in Pisces (PDF)
• June 2006 Updates to Pisces Functionality (PDF)
• Pisces Personalization Help (PDF)
• Pisces Spellchecker (PDF)
• November 2006 Updates to Pisces Functionality (PDF)
• Attachments, report upload and search, wildlife crediting, and contract linkages (PDF)
• Cost share data tab, project level attachments and other September 2007 new Pisces features

Pisces Technical help:

• Quickstart guide (DOC)
• How Do I... ?
• FAQs on using Pisces (FAQs)
• FAQs on technical aspects of Pisces
• Technical Requirements
• Latest Pisces Release Notes, Version 2.6 (PDF) [March 20, 2008]
• Pisces Release Notes, Version 2.5 (PDF) [December 13, 2007]
• Pisces Release Notes, Version 2.4 (PDF) [September 20, 2007]
• Pisces Release Notes, Version 2.3 (PDF) [June 7, 2007]
• Pisces Release Notes Version 2.2 (PDF) [March 22, 2007];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 2.1 (PDF) [January 23, 2007];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 2.00 (PDF) [November 22, 2006];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 1.67 (PDF) [June 27, 2006];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 1.66 (PDF) [March 21, 2006];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 1.65 (PDF) [December 20, 2005];
• Pisces Release Notes Version 1.62 (PDF) [September 27, 2005];
• Pisces Release Notes for version 1.60 (PDF) [August 1, 2005];
• Previous Pisces Release Notes (PDF)