Adding observation fields can be quite useful, and I am a user who allows others to add them to my observations. When someone else does add a field to one of my observations, it would be nice to know who that user is/was, particularly if they are adding a field that makes an associated species ID li…

You should be able to see who added an observation field in any situation now. But I’ll leave this request open for another day or two, let us know you come across any examples where this isn’t working.

for what it’s worth, you do get updates in your homepage that show who added an observation field. those can get lost in the stream of other updates. so, alternatively, you can get the information from the API’s observation details and observation search endpoints. for example, you can look at the …

That’s interesting. People don’t often add fields to my observations, but I do have one and it does show the name of who added it right under the “Info” portion of the drop-down. I wonder why it didn’t on yours… [image]

that’s a good observation. i guess the info pop-up will only display who added the observation field if the observer was not the one who added it? i can confirm that i see who added the field in a case where someone else added it on my observation : [image]

The information is also available, in the form of the userid number in the json of the observation record (which can be seen by just adding .json to the end of the url such as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66857258.json ) if you dont want to interact via the API.

[image] pisum: it looks like you (arborsphere) added that particular observation field Yes, I modded it, but after I took the screen shot I posted here. The species-level entry, posted by someone else long ago, was apparently wrong. And, as you can also see in the screen shot, there was no at…

Made an issue for this here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2934

Display who added an observation field

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Observation field identifiers Bug Reports	1	1024	April 6, 2021
Adding or editing observation fields reports wrong user Bug Reports	30	2400	August 17, 2025
Add 'Last Edited' Section to Observation Fields Feature Requests web , implemented , observation-field	8	1098	February 26, 2025
Received notification for my own action adding an observation field Bug Reports web	6	187	October 3, 2026
Cannot Edit or Delete Observation Field from Observation Bug Reports web	19	2106	October 1, 2020

Display who added an observation field

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