Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: website URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload Description of need: In the web up-loader, if you attempt to submit observations missing media, identifications, date, or location, a pop-u…

OK, this has been implemented. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-functionality-added-to-identify-and-upload-pages/48448

i like this idea in general. but i think any implementation should done in a way that it does not suggest that fields are required (as opposed to just recommended) or that there’s an error (as opposed to just a warning or information).

If you are adding like 100 observations in a batch it is quite annoying to check every field on every observation; I agree that even just specifying which field was missing in the pop up notification would help refine the quest. Just a light shading behind the problematic observation seems easy enou…

Good idea. Even just putting the green ‘selection’ box around the affected obs would be good enough imo.

… or an amber version of the selection box.

Yessss please… Also, perhaps the missing field…

Yes please. Even some sort of alternate tab within the uploader than you can click and it only views the problematic observations. Green doesn’t seem like a very adequate “problem” highlight, we need a scary, fear-driving nuclear meltdown warning red of course.

[image] silversea_starsong: Even some sort of alternate tab within the uploader than you can click and it only views the problematic observations That would be useful. Unproblematic observations could even go ahead and start uploading, and one could be taken to just the ones that need attenti…

Forgot to add this GH issue: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3245 Although perhaps it should be another color instead of red, for those who can’t see red.

Since iNat knows which obs, could it not be specific and show this one is missing this Instead of the full list? And avoiding the colour blind issue altogether.

"Missing something" pop-ups in web uploader should also highlight observations that triggered them

Feature Requests

rangerpuffin January 7, 2024, 6:19am 14

Good idea.

The next CNC is coming for sure, in 2024 its is completely in April

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"Missing something" pop-ups in web uploader should also highlight observations that triggered them

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