Recent change in Export Observations

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Platform: Website

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Browser, if a website issue: Safari

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Description of problem:Under Export Observations, there are now two sets of Observation Fields, #1 Observation Fields and #2 Observation Fields for Projects. Before this change there was only #1. The fields in the downloaded spreadsheet were in same order as the fields listing on the export page. Now with the change, #1 fields are scrambled and #2 fields are in the original order. Regardless of which I use for the download, the fields are scrambled on the spreadsheet. This makes these downloads incompatible with older downloads, necessitating rearranging the new spreadsheet columns, which, especially with a lot of data, is annoying and rather time consuming. Can you revert back to the how the original downloads worked?

Step 1: Project: Western Redcedar Parks Project.

Step 2: See if you can duplicate it.,

Step 3:

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I’ve noticed the same, it’s extremely frustrating. Curating project data takes so much longer now. My project is Caterpillar Rearing Group and I’m using Brave browser.

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Can you please email one of the CSVs to help@inaturalist.org?

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I’m sending a CSV and screen shot of the selected Observation Fields. You will notice the fields are now reversed in the CSV.

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Will send one too as mine are totally scrambled and are driving me nutty.