Placeholder text no longer visible on Identify

[Vireya]

In the last couple of days when identifying “Unknowns”, I’ve been surprised when then adding annotations to see that there is placeholder text listed in the Placeholder Backup observation field, but I didn’t notice a placeholder was present. The first couple of times I thought I had just missed seeing it, but after it happening a few times I realised that I’m not overlooking them, the placeholders just aren’t showing for Unknowns any more:

So what happened? Does this mean that if the Placeholder Backup process hasn’t run, placeholders won’t be seen at all?

[bouteloua]

Not totally sure if an intentional or unintentional change, but the Identify page recently changed to using API v2, so I moved it to Bug Reports in case it is an unintentional change from that.

[Vireya]

Thank you. I didn’t know if this was a deliberate change (in which case there should be an announcement or something), or unintended.

[asteroidowl]

Ooo, that would be bad because I rely on that placeholder text a lot for unknowns.

[Vireya]

Maybe this has been resolved? I’ve just seen an observation with a placeholder displayed as they used to be, anyway. Will keep looking.

[pleary]

Thanks for reporting. This was an unintentional side effect after we migrated the Identify page to use V2 of our API. Yesterday we released a fix to address this. Hopefully placeholders appear in the taxon name portion of the observation modal windows as they did previously

[Vireya]

Thank you!

[asteroidowl]

thank you!!!