Create a way that the same id can be given to multiple observations at the same time. For example, for “unknown” observations it would be good for applying a coarse ID rather than going through them one by one. Also for filtering to a particular taxa and selecting the ones you agree with. I use th…

Like @upupa-epops , I would use it to add coarse IDs after I had filtered the Identify page to only show unknowns. I can see it being especially handy during bio blitzes and sudden student influxes to at least ID multiple observations as “plants” or “arthropods” at once.

This isn’t quite a batch option but it does make things go faster when you’re working your way through a group that is dominated by a few taxa. You can also use it to paste comments. In Windows 10, go to Settings and open “clipboard settings.” Turn on Clipboard History. Then it keeps stuff you’ve c…

I agree that adding a tool for adding many identifications would be great. I just searched all the Unknown species for Costa Rica, and the entire first page are Fungi. I would be great if I could easily select multiple observations, like all 30 on this page, and identify them as fungi instead of hav…

It’s also a very useful tool for out-of area observations, e.g. fungi obs. are mostly orphaned and nobody checks them, so there can be thousands of wrong ids of some american species “seen” worldwide, with more and more obs. because of “seen nearby”, it’d be much faster to batch-reid them than spend…

I would be concerned about the potential for mass-vandalism with a tool like this available.

i agree that it’s probably not a good thing to have a batch add for identifications, but i think it would be useful to effectively allow the creation of macros – collections of actions – that could be applied with keyboard shortcuts. so for example, if you’re identifying species A (a flowering plan…

Maybe it could be a tool only available to trusted users I was just going through the evening primrose family and most I could tell from the thumbnail were Oenothera or Ludwigia. It would have gone so much faster if I could click a bunch of checkboxes and batch add a genus

Or maybe have a limit per day for the batch tool. So you can catch abusers before they cause too much trouble. I’m limited by how much I can ID based on time limit. I could get a lot more done in a day if I could for example batch ID a whole lot of evening primrose family into genus Oenothera and th…

Well then the subspecies shouldn’t be added at all.

Batch add the same ID to multiple observations

Feature Requests

richyfourtytwo October 30, 2021, 5:58pm 17

I use a tool called AutoHotkey for exactly this (on windows).

Bulk identification tool

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Batch add the same ID to multiple observations

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