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…

Can you clarify this a bit? Do you mean some feature of Identify where you just apply the same ID to a bunch of observations at once? I’m not sure I’d find that valuable, personally. I find clicking the “Agree” button pretty efficient, and I rarely see a bunch of unknowns that I want to add exactly …

i imagine it might also lead to wrong IDs or bulk ‘agreeing’ without good reason

When I go through “Unknown” observations usually most of them are plants, sometimes nearly an entire page at a time, and I don’t know anything about identifying plants past dicot/monocot. At these times I wish I could click a checkbox on each observation and then do something like “ID selected as: P…

An example is Convergent Lady Beetles or Western Honey Bee. These seem to frequently be posted as Unknown, Insect, Lady Beetle or Bee. Sometimes I filter for them and do a batch all at once. I do this occasionally on those already Research Grade to correct them too. I can sit on the couch with my t…

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.

Batch add the same ID to multiple observations

Feature Requests

kimssight April 26, 2019, 1:24pm 6

At a coarse level, it is likely mistakes will be caught on the next pass. Even with mistakes they are more likely to be reviewed than leaving them at unknown.

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Batch add the same ID to multiple observations

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