A need id casual obs

Bug Reports
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Platform: Website

Browser, if a website issue: Firefox

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem:

Step 1: I was scrolling thru my observations.

Step 2: I found one of the most important obs i’ve made, a rare damselfly with very few habitats left in a place where it was never reported before. However, it was casual

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Step 3: The requirements seem to all be made?
Because of this, it is not getting ided. At all. So what can I do to fix it?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/289211733

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ask here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-is-this-observation-casual-needs-id-research-grade-official-topic/13186

3

It shows as Needs ID to me now. I’m not sure what change was made, it may have just needed to be reindexed.

4

I find most of the time these are indexing issues and checking/unchecking one of the DQAs fixes it.

5

This usually happens when an observation is just uploaded and the metadata is up, but not the photo. If you refresh it should default back to Needs ID in a few seconds.