# Observation not appearing in search project

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [September 5, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013 "2020-09-05T00:57:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gancw1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/gancw1/32/2089_2.png) [@gancw1](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/gancw1)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013/1 "2020-09-05T00:57:03Z")

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Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can.

**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website):  
android  
**App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

**Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :  
Chrome  
**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52565508](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52565508)  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterflies-of-singapore](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterflies-of-singapore)

**Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)):

**Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

This observation is in Singapore but it does not get included in the Butterflies of Singapore project.

 ![20200905_084739](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/b/b949b5bb7d580a86a864ef8f574212aba8b7ab14.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013/2 "2020-09-05T02:24:01Z")

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That observation is in the project as it should be (see [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place\_id=any&project\_id=butterflies-of-singapore&subview=grid&taxon\_id=149734&user\_id=charlottetay&verifiable=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=butterflies-of-singapore&subview=grid&taxon_id=149734&user_id=charlottetay&verifiable=any))

When viewing other users’ observations, the projects tab will not show you collection projects that the observation is a part of (that info will only appear to the user).

However, as far as I understand, this only applies to collection projects that don’t require you to be a member of the project for your observations to be included; I’m not certain about this caveat, but it’s my educated guess given the ‘BL 5131 2020’ project you can see on that observation is also a collection project, but it has the ‘project members only’ filter.

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**Author:** ![gancw1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/gancw1/32/2089_2.png) [@gancw1](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/gancw1)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013/3 "2020-09-06T09:03:48Z")

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Thanks. I remember seeing some photos which show the collection project.

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-not-appearing-in-search-project/16013/4 "2020-09-25T05:02:41Z")

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