Project Observations Bug

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): All

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 3.3.6

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : all

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/woodstock-green-project

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): The project I made this morning, the Woodstock Green Project, is broken. The time is set to any and the only restriction is within the kml file I created. For some reason, the only observations that are showing up are those which are being interacted with through IDs after the creation of the project. I tested it by adding an ID to one of the hundreds of missing observations and it worked, it showed up immediately after. Very strange, none of my other projects have had a problem like this.

Step 1: Open project

Step 2: Find observation within the KML boundary that isn’t showing up.

Step 3: Add an ID to it and return to find it there immediately afterwards.

Maybe you just needed to give it time? There are 388 observations there now. It takes a little while for the system to add everything to a new project. The ones you added IDs to would have been re-indexed or whatever immediately, which is why they appeared as soon as you added an ID.

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Yes, it takes a while to reindex observations for places. Give it a couple of days and if there are still observations missing there might be an issue. Otherwise, the system seems to be working as intended.