Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: Website, mobile URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Identify module Description of need: Improve filtering for different annotations Feature request details: Add functionality to search for or url filter multiple annotations. Thi…

this functionality does exist, but search filters must be manually added to the URL rather than through a user interface. this is the list of them. i have created an Identify search with your described filtering needs : without life stage annotation: without_term_id=1 with evidence of presence ann…

This doesn’t really work. For the first part, it doesn’t allow for specific values to be excluded, only the whole annotation or term ID. I want to find observations with no life stage and without a specific EoP annotation (namely leafmine or egg), not without any EoP annotation. And for the second…

please refer to the linked guide and the search filter provided (I can see you did not even click them) before telling me it does not work, as you absolutely can include/exclude specific values to your discretion. you can include/exclude annotation groups AND/OR specific annotations within group. b…

i misunderstood your description of your need, [image] ncb1221: I also couldn’t find a way to search for observations with multiple evidence of presence annotations (like organism and molt). i was trying to give you this search for multiple possible evidence of presences, and found that you …

This was very helpful for other use cases though. The UI is limiting, so I didn’t realize I’d be able to successfully create filters that granular with the URL. I still think the other functionalities would be very helpful. I can try to summarize my ask better in the original post

This one is helpful too. But still a bit limited (hopefully I’m not asking for too much). I guess for condition 3, I was searching for either no EoP annotation or any EoP annotation besides the ones you listed. I’ll try to describe a specific use case, maybe that will help clarify better than my w…

no worries, i am very glad to help with search filtering (i think i am surprising myself with how passionate i am about it, in terms of being able to sort the huge amount (200 million +) observations! it is so important) thank you for your very specific use case, as this helps solve things: you don…

I certainly appreciate your help. I definitely learned a few things. I’ll clarify the ask in the original post once I clarify things in my own head lol I was playing with your last link to get the results I was looking for. I used this search: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?with…

i am experiencing the same in spite of the without_term_value_id=32, so i must have done something wrong. it looks like the guide says “ Both the group parameter and value parameter should be included in the URL ,” so perhaps it is not possible to include both groups (observations with an annotation t…

Filter by multiple annotations at a time

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ncb1221 December 11, 2024, 3:28pm 5

Sorry, I didn’t mean it didn’t work functionally. I meant it didn’t work for my use case.

I’m looking for without life stage and without a specific EoP annotation. Your link is without life stage and WITH EoP = 24,28

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Filter by multiple annotations at a time

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