# Trouble selecting project to add observations to **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [September 17, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579 "2019-09-17T21:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cheriehemsley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cheriehemsley/32/4572_2.png) [@cheriehemsley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cheriehemsley)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/1 "2019-09-17T21:22:22Z")
Kia ora iNat whānau, I seem to be having trouble connecting some of my observations to a project and I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this issue before? Thanks for your help in advance, I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/2 "2019-09-17T21:24:58Z")
Can you provide a link to or name of a project that you’re having trouble adding an observation to, and an observation that isn’t appearing in that project? Note that observations can’t be manually added to “collection” projects, they just either meet the criteria of the project and are automatically included, or they don’t. [https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#projectobs](https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#projectobs) ---
**Author:** ![cheriehemsley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cheriehemsley/32/4572_2.png) [@cheriehemsley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cheriehemsley)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/3 "2019-09-17T21:27:39Z")
Aha, that might be the issue, I think it’s a collection project. The name of the project is ‘Rakiura HMB School Te Rerenga Rauropi Conservation Week 2019’ and I have a mistletoe observation that is not connecting tot he project. Thanks heaps for your help, I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![kiwifergus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kiwifergus/32/1904_2.png) [@kiwifergus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kiwifergus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/4 "2019-09-17T21:40:15Z")
native mistletoes might be listed as vulnerable, so the location becomes obscured. If that is the case, and the collection project has a place as a filter, then the collection project likely won’t pick it up automatically. The only effective way around that, that I know of, is to make an umbrella project the main project page, and have it aggregate both a collection project for the place and a traditional project that you can manually add the obscured obs to. ---
**Author:** ![cheriehemsley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cheriehemsley/32/4572_2.png) [@cheriehemsley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cheriehemsley)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/5 "2019-09-17T21:44:08Z")
Ok, roger that, thank you, I appreciate it. Kia pai tō rā/have a good day. ---
**Author:** ![kiwifergus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kiwifergus/32/1904_2.png) [@kiwifergus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kiwifergus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/6 "2019-09-17T22:03:42Z")
Ko taku pai ~~Kia pai to “taio” (bioblitz)~~ pārekareka ki to “aromatawai koiora” (bioblitz) [don’t trust google translate! I had someone correct me on that today!] ---
**Author:** ![karen33317](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/karen33317/32/5897_2.png) [@karen33317](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/karen33317)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/7 "2019-09-23T01:17:59Z")
You have a couple that aren’t part of that project, and I think it is because the accuracy on those is listed as 19 miles as opposed to “not recorded”. ![Untitled-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/d/d7f69a95a107ab12c291636ad2908d0c3c4dff63.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trouble-selecting-project-to-add-observations-to/6579/8 "2019-11-22T01:17:59Z")
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