Hi guys, first time posting on the forum here - I was adding annotations to some observations and somehow two copies of each were added to this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36090712
It was originally three of each but I removed the other two just to see what would happen and it seems that it’s an easy enough problem to fix manually, but I figured it would be good to post here to make sure there aren’t any underlying code issues or anything with the new Alive or Dead annotation. Thoughts, anyone?
I was not able to replicate, adding annotations to one of my animal observations via the observation detail page (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11386226). Wouldn’t allow me to add more than one.
On your example, did you add these annotations serially, all in the same window? Or might they have come from different windows open to the the same observation?
On yours I tried downvoting/upvoting some DQA items to force a reindex, but that didn’t fix it.
Welcome to the forum, and thank you for posting this!
Thanks @jdmore - I was simply adding them from the Identify page in one window, and after taking an abnormally long time to load it popped up with multiple annotations (despite the fact that I had only entered two). When I went directly to the page for the sighting they were still there. I can get rid of them myself by hitting the little x next to the annotation and that solves the problem, but I figured I’d leave it for now to see if anyone knew the cause
Not only alive/dead, but old ones too.
And yes, the system was really slow with adding them, if I added all 3 annotations for the observation the last one wasn’t saved at all.
I can’t replicate it the original way it happened for me, but this time I put in values for the all three annotations and only the first one saved, so I then put in the last two again at which point it loaded with those last two doubled. When I went to remove the duplicates it doubled everything again instead of getting rid of them, but this seems to be an artifact of the Identify page as the sighting itself has everything normal
I started working through some of my recent observations to add annotations, using the keyboard shortcuts to add and to move to the next observation. After adding an annotation I saw the spinning icon indicating the system was working; it took a long time to complete, and sometimes failed to register the annotation.
After adding annotations to about four observations I went back to look at the previous ones, and found that duplicate annotations had been added. Then I moved forward to newer observations and found that annotations had been added before I even got to them!
Moving to the “Your Observations” tab, I found that the duplicate annotations were present in the observations that I had edited, but were no annotations had been saved in the observations that I had not really touched (but showed in the Identify tab). Clear as mud?
In the screen shot below, the only annotation I entered was Life Stage. The rest appeared auto-magically. Only the Life Stage was saved to the observation in this case.
I ended up adding them once and then move on to the next obs, then after a series of them I recheck and see how it looks from id tab, if it’s wrong (multiple added) I go to the obs page and check it there, most of the time it’s right on the obs page, and it’s more likely annotations will be lost than will be multiplied.
I tried a few more annotations, and was able to enter several with only one problem appearing. After entering annotations in several new observations using the Identify module, I went to one of the observations with duplicated attributes. I clicked on the X to remove a duplicate Life Stage attribute, and it was removed. Then I tried to remove a Dead or Alive attribute, but it did not go away. Then I moved forward and back to look at other observations, and all showed multiple duplicated attributes which I had not entered.
I moved out of the Identify module and looked at the observations I had just edited, and found that the apparent new duplicate attributes had not been saved. Then I went through the observations and manually removed any duplicated attributes from my previous session.
Returning to the Identify module, I was able to add annotations with no additional errors. However, I avoided using the Dead or Alive attribute.
I noticed that adding Annotations was operating at normal speed (4-5 seconds from typing the letters until the annotation appeared on screen). The extreme slowness I saw previously was not evident this time.
Noticed the same issue: If I add a second annotation while the first annotation is still being added (animated spinner), the first annotation appears to be lost, and I might be tempted to re-add it. However, if I reload the page, both annotations are present.
I don’t explicitly remember this happening in the moment…but, I oftentimes have my annotations update slowly or revert back as if I had not added any at all.
As for duplicating…that issue happens to me in comments more often than annotations but the second (repeat) comment usually disappears upon reloading the page.
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Going through annotations, I noticed an observation where there were two annotations of adult for life stage by two different observers. In Identify I went to the next page and then back to previous page and this is what it looked like:
That happens sometimes. It’s like it’s still displaying one set of annotations on additional observations. I can’t change that stray annotation. I can keep on annotating for read, but it gets confusing. If I stop annotating (and identifying) for a while it disappears. If I see it again, I’ll try to collect more information.
