# Finding observations without observation fields?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047 "2020-03-27T08:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![erwin\_pteridophilos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/erwin_pteridophilos/32/6244_2.png) [@erwin\_pteridophilos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/erwin_pteridophilos)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047/1 "2020-03-27T08:17:29Z")

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Tony, i got a request for related issue and purpose.  
In this case i reviewed, respectively IDed Obss., yet missed to add certain fields dedicated to still to create special project of mine. Will explain later and elswhere, how i do use iNat data for scientific research.  
I do remember to have read another thread concerning exclusion of search criteria and right url creation, but didn’t find this again. When adding “&not\_field:special\_field\_value=” or “&-\_field:…=” this gave no change of results. Don’t know if “without” resulted in exclusion of fields?  
Best regards, Erwin

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**Author:** ![erwin\_pteridophilos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/erwin_pteridophilos/32/6244_2.png) [@erwin\_pteridophilos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/erwin_pteridophilos)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047/2 "2020-03-27T08:58:56Z")

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Request added to [https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2610](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2610)

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**Author:** ![erwin\_pteridophilos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/erwin_pteridophilos/32/6244_2.png) [@erwin\_pteridophilos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/erwin_pteridophilos)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047/3 "2020-03-27T17:51:19Z")

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Thanks for splitting @bouteloua i found a thread traeting the same issue, [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-for-without-field-fieldname/6652](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-for-without-field-fieldname/6652) which is linked at @tiwane tutorial [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63)  
Perhaps the search feature will be implemented, may be useful in some cases.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/finding-observations-without-observation-fields/11047/4 "2020-05-26T17:51:20Z")

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