Step 1: I’ve made a project with a long list of my expected lifers. It includes 808 species. I’ve tried to make this list longer, but project failed to be saved (“Undefined” pop-up). So, I stopped at 808 species.
Step 2: I’ve tried to remove some (one, ten, hundred) species from the project, but faced the same “Undefined” pop-up. So, at the moment I can’t change any filters of the project.
for what it’s worth, the immediate problem, based on the text of the Github issue, seems to be a timeout setting on the server that is too short. this means that if you were to try updating again during a period when the system is unlikely to have a heavy load, you might be able to accomplish your update.
alternatively, you could try to make your updates using the API directly, as described in some of the related threads i noted. as far as i can tell, the project definition screen processes updates by processing the entire project definition, not just the parts that actually changed. but if you use the API directly, you can make requests to change only the things that actually need to be changed, which will take less processing time and thus avoid the timeout problem.
as far as i can tell, the developers probably never envisioned that folks would want to add hundreds or thousands of taxa to their project definitions. so the only way to really address the fundamental problem is probably to (1) establish a hard limit for items that can be added to the definition, and (2) to process only the things that actually changed in the defintion when the project definition is updated. (simply extending a timeout setting probably isn’t going to cut it.)
Hi, the same problem here when trying to edit the taxons list in the project “EXOCAT”.
Would like to see the last answers on this issue, where is the last thread? Is there any solution so we can continue adding taxons to the list? Thank you so much.
I forgot about this issue and added too many requirements to a project again - has anyone found a way to successfully remove things and make their projects usable again? Last time I ended up just deleting the whole thing and manually re-doing it with fewer requirements, but that was a pain.
I’ve seen the mentions about trying API, but I’ll be honest, I barely know what that is, much less how to do anything with it.
At the moment, the only workable option to edit the project requirements with many filters (ca. 800 species) is to make a duplicate of the project. This helps at least to save changes. The initial project could be deleted after this.
I still have no idea how to enlarge the list of initial filters.
