All suggestions in the forum, neither for observations nor for identifications are not working and the API documentation does not contain any &without_field parameters, so i reckon that the feature simply is not implemented, hence the feature request. Here is an example of what i would like to acco…

Sorry for the late reply but yes, this has been implemented! If you find any bugs, please file something in Bug Reports .

It used to work!! It doesn’t now :-( I really need it to work because I use it often.

[image] karoopixie: I really need it to work because I use it often. Then vote for that feature request ;-)

I cannot as I have no votes left! Also, this should perhaps be a bug report rather than a feature request, because it did used to work.

[image] karoopixie: I cannot as I have no votes left! You could unvote another less important one, then you have one more vote left.

I could, but I choose not to. Mostly because I think this is in fact a bug report not a feature request.

[image] GeraldA: Then vote for that feature request ;-) Given the new discussion happening here , I wouldn’t worry too much about votes on Feature Requests. Staff will still see the Feature Request topics that get posted, and prioritize the ones they deem suitable. That said, this request ce…

The API has never supported a without_field parameter, but it is a feature we would consider adding

This feature would be a huge help. The New York City EcoFlora is asking folks to mark White Snakeroot observations that show evidence of leaf miners. The activity is called LOOK FOR LEAF MINERS FROM HOME . It’s a special pandemic activity. We ask people to score the Leaf Miner observation field as…

A year later since the last remark here, @pleary is this still being considered to implement? I would like to add certain fields to potentially largish quantities of observations for different purposes (burls, pinned specimen, cicada evidence type are recent examples for me). But as the number of “…

another 12 months. I just started to understand the fields section, and what i can’t find is how to exclude certain bunch of observations which can be custom group by fields … seems like what you’ll were crying out for.

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tiwane October 10, 2023, 9:34pm 17

Yes, sorry. We’ll be making an issue for it soon.

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