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I think the issue is that none of the obsevations have this observation field, eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38479485 I added the Phenology field to one of them, then re-exported, and that value was included in the export. I should also note that on iNat, “annotations” are different …

What’s the URL of your export?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export?verifiable=true&page=1&spam=false&nelat=30.101&nelng=-95.406&swlat=30.097&swlng=-95.413&taxon=true&iconic_taxa[]=Plantae&place_id=any&user_id=&project_id=

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export?flow_task_id=99177 Here are 3 obs. 1 fruiting, 1 flowering, and 1 with no phenology The export does not show “fruiting” or “flowering” under phenology heading.

What are the URLs of the individual observations?

Id 44840950 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44840950 44841011 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44841011 45585373 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45585373

As I mentioned above, I think “annotations” and “observation fields” are being confused here. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44840950 has an annotation of flowering: [image] But annotations cannot be exported. Only observation fields can, and these observations don’t have any observatio…

Forgive me, I am not as familiar with computers as the younger generation. I may not have the terminology right. If I understand correctly, If I want to download a group of observations, that shows whether they are flowering,fruiting, etc.then I have to go to each observation and add it under “ob…

As things currently stand, a CSV export from iNat will never include the values from Annotations. This is mainly due to the exporter being quite old, and Annotations being relatively new. One alternative is to use the Explore page to filter out only observations that have a certain annotation, and …

ok thanks I will try that. How can I determine what follows the equal sign for fruiting, etc

Annotations not exporting

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tiwane July 22, 2020, 9:40pm 12

That’s all laid out here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63#heading--annotations

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Annotations not exporting

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