I’m currently working on a set of red-list projects for Germany. Basically, the goal is to be able to monitor endangered species better on iNat itself, and find valuable observations more quickly. I have found a mix of collection and umbrella projects works wonderfully for this.
There’s just one thing that is very tedious and that is creating the projects. Essentially, I just have a bunch of rather long excel sheets with all the species of a taxon (ants, bees, hoverflies, etc.) with some information about the degree of endangered-ness and some other info.
Currently, I’m entering all species (sometimes well over 100 for a single project) manually. Is there a way that lets me take a species list from excel and automatically bulk-insert all of them into the “Include Taxa” filter? It would save a lot of time.
you could create a list in iNat and use the Add Batch function to add a bunch of taxa. from there, if you don’t actually need the project structure, you could just filter by your list_id.
Perfect! This will save so much time, thank you! :)
Two questions: Can I just edit the code after I’ve opened the link, or do I need to copy it and paste to somewhere else before (I don’t want to break anything)?
Also, the “project slug” is just the project ID from the link, right (so ger-ungefahrdet-syrphidae for the example project I linked to above)?
don’t worry about breaking any of the source workbooks. you’re not able to change the source workbooks. anything you save will be saved to your local versions on the workbooks (saved within your browser’s storage). if you have a workbook that you want to keep for a long time, the best thing to do is to to download a copy of the workbook to your machine or in your own online repository. this way, you won’t accidentally delete it if you clear your browser cache or if i push changes to the repository that somehow cause everything to reset on your end.
yes. you can also use the numeric id, but that’s harder to find sometimes.