Identify: can't filter by project

[chlorophilia]

Platform: Website

Browser: Version 80.0.3987.149 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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Description of problem:

Step 1: Click ‘Identify’ in main menu to access Identify functionality

Step 2: Select ‘Filters’

Step 3: Filter by Project: ‘BC Parks’

… Filter menu fails to identify ‘BC Parks’ as an option.

[tiwane]

I think this is less a bug than just how search works - there are too many projects which match bc parks and the one you are looking for isn’t in the top ten results.

However, there’s more than one way to skin a cat here. If you go to the project page and click on “Observations” you’ll see an Identify button:

Clicking that leads you to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=bc-parks which you can bookmark for future use if you want.

[chlorophilia]

Very good ! Thanks for this solution. I had figured out the alternative approach in the meanwhile. I am just not accustomed to the collection / umbrella projects as I spend most of my time managing an old school traditional project.

Thanks for this feedback.

[tiwane]

Another workaround (and these would all be workarounds until we improve search here) would be to change the project’s name to something unique. I just made (and now deleted) a test project with the name “All BC Parks” and it showed up in the Filters: