As the title states, I go from the taxa page, click on “View All”, and I would normally be taken to the observations (with a place filter of New Zealand from settings) and the map would be zoomed to fit the range of the observations, with pins on the map (assuming of course my last obs list had the map option selected). In the last few days I noticed it started not zooming, and pins aren’t showing. Not sure when it first started happening.
If I zoom in slightly and force the button for “Redo search in map” to appear, clicking on that will bring up the pins.
Just went to the first one I could think of… Latrodectus katipo, used “More - Taxa info” to get to it, and when I clicked the “View All” it worked as expected, ie it zoomed to the range of the obs and placed pins. I tried a couple other taxa that I know it happened on, and same story.
I also get to the taxa page sometimes by being in an observation, and clicking the taxa name in an identification. So I tried that with Latrodectus katipo and the bug is repeatable with that path
Hmm, I’m not able to replicate, using iNat.NZ in either Chrome or FF. Can you open up the web console and take a screenshot? there might be some info there that could help us diagnose this.
on chrome, the only “console” in the options I can find is a blank thing in the developer tools… I’m guessing I am in the wrong place… how do I open the console?
View > Developer > Javascript Console. It opens up the console on the page. If there are errors, they get noted in the the console. If nothing’s there, then it wont be helpful.
No urgency on this, it is just a cosmetic/minor annoyance, especially now that I am aware of when it happens and how to avoid it.
Note that I have an account filter for “New Zealand” from accessing through the NZ portal, and assuming I have been on map view in previous observation search results. Using Chrome browser.
If I have that tab looking at that observation map, and then open another tab and repeat the process above, then the resulting observation view does not place the pin locations and does not zoom to the extent of their range.
The above behaviour doesn’t seem as consistantly tied to “another tab or window” as I thought when I posted that above. Another problematic workflow:
With only one tab and window open, go to the Identify page
choose one that has two IDs of different taxa
from the modal, ctrl-click or right-click-“Open in New Tab” on one of the taxa names to go to the taxa page
from the taxa page click “View All” and the map shows, pins located and zoomed to extent of range.
Close that tab and from the first tab repeat for the other taxa, and this time the pins don’t locate and no zoom
I tried repeating this in reverse order, opening the 2nd taxa then the first, but neither resulted in pin locations and zooming.
with the 2nd tab still open and showing the first taxa, I change the view to “grid” and close all tabs/windows. Then when I repeat the exercise, the first taxa expectedly opens on grid view (as last setting), and when I change to the maps tab, it locates the pins and zooms.
It might be behaviour as a consequence of having a plugin, such as textblaze. I haven’t seen it happen recently either, at least not so I have noticed it… maybe close the bugreport and I’ll get back to you if I can figure out anything else about what might have been causing it.
