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i’m sorry. i must be misunderstanding something here. when you say “It actually works all the way” and “It does get applied to subsequent pages”, what exactly is “it”?

It is the filter that I try to put on the observations to ID. I don’t want observations of tracks. When I set the filter to not select observations with Annotations: Eveidence of Presence: Track, update the search, go to the next page with observations, and then look at the filter again, it doesn’t …

i’m sorry. that’s still not clear in the context of what’s been said so far. can you provide a screen a screenshot of the filters menu? and also the resulting set when you apply your filters against my raccoon set of observations? based on what you were describing, and since 2 of 10 of my raccoon …

You are right, it doesn’t work. The filter ignores the Track setting and reverts to Without Annotation: Evidence of Presence: Any. When I apply the filter to your data set, it returns the 4 observations that don’t have any Evidence of Presence, instead of the 8 that don’t have Track. Here is a scre…

ok. i think we’re beginning to get some agreement here. let me know which of the following you agree with at this point: if you set “without evidence of presence” and “without track”, the system is dropping the “without track” and filtering using only “without evidence of presence”. so this effec…

According to my understanding you are not quite correct. The filter that you have as 1. should work, but doesn’t. I think this is a bug. It should not change Track to Any, it should select observations that do not have Evidence of Presence: Track, 8 observations in your case.

so is it fair to say that you agree that points 1-3 above represent the current state of affairs in terms of how the system is actually behaving? but you disagree on points 4 and 5 because you believe the behavior in #1 is not working as intended?

@pisum , yes, that is how I see it.

I will agree with @geichhorn that there is a bug here, but I’m not sure if it is in the filter design or just in the user interface - I have no way of knowing what the intent of the designers was. If, as @pisum suggests, it was the intent of the designers that the “without annotation” field should …

yes, i can see both sides. i think the implementation tried to simplify the required UI layout and filter parameters, but that design leads to the quirks/limitations we’re discussing here. i think a more robust implementation would represent this functionality using 3 main UI input options, with th…

Identify Filter "Without Annotation" not working properly

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einsum March 2, 2026, 8:39am 28

even the issues handling was switched last year and no github linking yet for those issues which can be made public :(

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4094

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