Search Query for Observation Field Values - Additional

[norm_shea]

I didn’t see this specifically addressed and maybe this should be a feature request but I thought I’d check here first. I know @bouteloua addressed this in the previous thread, https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-query-for-observation-field-values/8056, indicating that by clicking on the Observation Field you can search, but I was wondering why the Observation Fields aren’t included in the filters all the time. It kinda necessitates finding an observation with that field result to search by it.

I was interested in the Observation Field result, “Yellow Ratsnake - Pantherophis alleghaniensis quadrivittata=formerly known as”. Once I found one I was able to search others and, in the filters, it now showed a searched Observation Field,

so I was just wondering why isn’t this an option all the time?

I know there is the iNaturalist API, but that is a little daunting (at least for me) and you have to go to to an additional site. If it were just in the filter, it would be ever so much easier.

[bouteloua]

There’s an open feature request here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-by-observation-field/2260

[norm_shea]

Thanks @bouteloua!