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 seei…

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

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.

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

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

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

Placeholder text no longer visible on Identify

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Searching ‘Placeholders’ General	22	3306	September 26, 2019
Placeholder and unknown General	6	1417	September 7, 2019
Question about placeholder notes General question	7	905	July 14, 2023
Placeholder text and IDing Unknowns General	8	657	May 11, 2021
Lost placeholder General	19	558	March 10, 2021

Placeholder text no longer visible on Identify

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