Is there a way to copy the criteria of an existing Project?

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I want to use the Taxa criteria of an existing Project - Pollen Specialist Bees of NYC - to create a new project with a different Place boundary. The list of taxa is extensive, nearly 200 species. I don’t want to duplicate the effort of typing it all in.

I can Duplicate Project when editing one of my own Projects. But I do not own the existing Project.

I’ve looked at both the source project, and creating a new one. I can find no option to copy the existing project to a new one, nor to model a new project based on an existing one.

Am I missing something? Or does this capability not exist for anyone other than the Project Owner?

Thanks in advance.

Yours in Nature,
Xris

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I don’t know of a way to do this, but you could ask the project owner to make a duplicate, then add you as an admin, and delete themselves (or not if you feel like sharing). Not too much effort for them, and they might be willing to help.

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unless new functionality is added to the system, i think you’d have to do this via the API.

you can get a list of taxa from the existing project from: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/projects?id=140929.

then to add those taxa to your own project, you can do some variant of the third type of API request described in this post: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/edit-project-breaks-entirely-for-project-with-undefined-user/30070/13.

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I had thought of this. I wanted to see if I was just missing something, first.

I think they would be amenable!

Thanx - Xris