Invite observations to a project

[Rick Otoka]

How can I invite observations that are in the project boundary but not part of it. Do I select any observation separately or is there an easier way to invite them all. Thanks for any help.

[tony]

They changed how projects work, originally you invited observations and the observer accepted the invitations, and there was a sort of bulk invite tool that project curators could use.  But people apparently got tired of endless invitations, so they changed it so that you didn't have project invitations, but anyone could add any observations to projects they were in, so long as the observer hadn't opted out.  But they got rid of the bulk invite tool, probably worried that it could have rather drastic effects if there was uncontrolled bulk addition to projects.  So project curators have a tool to find suitable observations that they can manually add,  and another to find unsuitable observations to find any that have got in, but shouldn't be there.

There is also an option, that can be turned on to automatically gather up observations, but this can have rather drastic effects as we found with the Whau River project where a slight logic change meant that 40000 observations were added, and due to other unresolved bugs the (now renamed) project can't be deleted and there is no way to automatically remove the extraneous observations!

But using a bit of magic, I have added all the observations that match the area definition.

Tony.

[Rick Otoka]

Hi tony,

Thanks for your response. But can you tell me step by step how I invite observations that are in the boundary but not a part of the project.

What is your magic? It are only approximately 60 a 70 observations... Many Thanks!

Rick

Op zondag 15 mei 2016 20:25:10 UTC+12 schreef tony:

[Rick Otoka]

Hi Tony,

Maybe you can tell me the answer on another question: why can't I see all the observations (that are in a project) when I am at a place?

(I need the place for the boundary of my project) Many thanks!!

Op dinsdag 17 mei 2016 13:20:54 UTC+12 schreef Rick Otoka:

[studebak...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:12:03 UTC+13, studebak...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Rick and/or tony,

Was there an answer or an update to this question? I also want the bit of magic...I can only add observations it the project is "Traditional" ie (in my case of my own Traditional Projects case at least) require a Field.