Move to comment, maybe? When choosing a category, could the placeholder text not be automatically replaced and erased? I keep accidentally overwriting placeholder text when I’m barrelling through the Identify sideways scroll pop-up, because it’s faint, small, and out of the way. There is no way to…

But what I suggested does work, I often do it, and tested it again before posting. But it doesn’t store it in species_guess as you say, but the .json dump is only a selection of useful stuff from the database entry.

Relief! The mystery, then, is what field is it stored in, and is it accessible to us somehow to query against?

Example in case you don’t believe (just believe ;-) https://inaturalist.nz/observations/1017592

oh, interesting! that is good to know

Placeholder can be pretty confusing for a new user. For a long time I thought placeholder was a computer suggested ID when the observer hadn’t selected anything for ID. I only realized that it was user input when I saw something like “lunar eclipse from X location in wetlands” or some other landscap…

Why not just duplicate the Placeholder into the description? Is there a reason why this is not desirable? (the user can edit it out at a future date if they dont want it easily visible)

The only undesirable reason I can think of is if the observer has something in both description and as a placeholder. You would have to make sure to append their placeholder, so it doesn’t completely overwrite whatever seperate info they have in the description.

[image] cas4moss: There is no way to get it back once I’ve loosely categorised something In addition to what others have said, if you are on the website (not the mobile app) and just directly add “.json” (without quotation marks) to the end of the URL in the address bar, you can see the place…

But can the original observer still see it?

Do not overwrite placeholder text

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llsrvd January 9, 2020, 12:56pm 26

Thank you, this is helpful!

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Do not overwrite placeholder text

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