Platform: Desktop App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Google Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/john-ball-zoo-turtle-road-crossing Screenshots of what you are seeing: [Screenshot 2025-1…

Same issue! If I select “Observation Fields for Projects”, I get a weird download with a mishmash of observation fields.

Sorry, let me give more details. This is the project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/caterpillar-rearing-group This is what I selected: [Screenshot 2025-10-11 at 14.44.28] And this is what I got: [Screenshot 2025-10-11 at 14.45.25]

The screenshot above doesn’t show any of the columns for observation fields (they would be to the right).

I know, but that’s what I get. :woman_shrugging:

I’m just confused because you said [image] suncana: I get a weird download with a mishmash of observation fields. but I don’t see any observation fields in the screenshot of the file. I also just tested the export for [image] suncana: the project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/c…

I suspect it only happens when the observation fields are both in your recent fields list and also in the project list. They made some changes to that code recently. https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4652

Then a possible workaround might be to select the project fields from the recents list instead and get the data that way if anyone wants to try.

Yep, I get what I need if I just select all the observation fields. [Screenshot 2025-10-12 at 18.11.35] [Screenshot 2025-10-12 at 18.13.40]

I’m experiencing the same issue. I’m just trying to download the ‘field:interaction->preyed on’ for powerful owl observations from the Predators Project. I’ve tried multiple times (with different queries) and the last time I ended up getting a bunch of stuff that I didn’t click: [240] [241] [2…

Did you try selecting the second one and not the first one? [image]

Data export not including project-specific observation fields

Bug Reports

tiwane November 12, 2025, 4:51pm 23

We just released a fix for this.

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Observation fields not selectable in observation export options Bug Reports web	5	481	January 12, 2021
Observation Field "Interaction->Visited flower of:" not included in exports when checked under "Observation Fields for Projects" but not "Observation Fields" Bug Reports	0	79	September 15, 2025
Not possible to select from all existing "Observation Field" values during data export Bug Reports	4	537	May 26, 2022
Downloads do not display the relevant observation fields Bug Reports	3	692	March 28, 2021
Export counts do not match up with Stats count Bug Reports issue-made	31	1063	September 14, 2023

Data export not including project-specific observation fields

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