I’m trying to exclude animals that are annotated as Dead from my search. I find searching for animals marked as Alive is not very useful in this, because most people don’t annotate living animals at all; but dead animals are very often explicitly marked as Dead. I saw here that you should theoretic…

See this bug report: Identify Filter “Without Annotation” not working properly .

Ah, I wasn’t using the Identify page; I forget it has different functionality than the Explore page. Is it possible to use Identify to search a custom area (i.e. a box or a circle on a map)? I can’t seem to figure out how to do that. I tried pasting the URL data generated by an area-bound search in…

[image] quillipede: Is it possible to use Identify to search a custom area (i.e. a box or a circle on a map)? I tried pasting the URL data generated by an area-bound search in Explore into the URL for the Identify search You don’t have to do that, you can make a search in Explore, then click …

Oh, neat! I didn’t know that was an option, that’s good to know. That seems to work perfectly. Is it possible to go from the refined Identify search to a map view to get an overview of where the results are?

I know people have pointed out a different way to filter in the identify modal but I just want to address the original URL formatting in case someone else is looking for an answer to a similar question. The reason it doesn’t work is that without_term_id=17 means there is no annotation about live or…

[image] quillipede: Is it possible to go from the refined Identify search to a map view to get an overview of where the results are? when you have the Identify page open in your browser, change the URL by deleting /identfy in the URL string, and go that that new URL [image] swampster: Se…

How to exclude observations with certain annotations?

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natev February 1, 2024, 5:00pm 3

If you are using the identify page, there is a clickable filter:

I tried reading the bug report post referenced above and I really couldn’t figure out what was going on there. This setting has always worked for me.

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How to exclude observations with certain annotations?

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