For example I edited this observation field and changed the value “T. cf. aquilinus” to “T. aqulinus group”: https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/8909 Now the graph shows that value as having 0 observations. In addition, I can still sort for observations labelled “T. cf. aquilinus” and fi…

The ‘allowed values’ just restricts which values you can enter, it doesn’t change any existing field contents. So yes, what you are asking for is a new feature. The ‘allowed values’ are a simple list, one of the things I quite often do is re-order the values in the drop-down list (eg to put common…

Editing an "Allowed value" in a "Datatype: text" observation field does not update its observations

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Editing an "Allowed value" in a "Datatype: text" observation field does not update its observations

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