Ability to add new sites as admin

Feature Requests
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What Wildbook should this feature be in? GiraffeSpotter

What would you like to see? The ability to add new sites/subsites myself as admin.

How would this functionality help you? Requesting new site locations to be added is probably my most frequent post here for support, it would help me to add new sites faster, and take some tasks of the wildme team’s plate.

If requesting a new location ID, include

  • Is this is nested beneath another location in the hierarchy?
  • Is there a prefix for region-based naming? (optional)
  • GPS coordinates in decimal format (optional)

Note: Not all feature requests can be accepted, but all of them are reviewed by our product team. We’re unable to provide implementation timelines for accepted requests. We are a small team with many competing priorities. Thanks for your understanding!

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Hi @CourtneyMarne

I’m not sure this is likely to get implemented anytime soon as the process currently involves manually updating the database and restarting tomcat and then backing up the changes in Github.

A middle ground in the meantime would be to submit a PR for the location ID update in GiraffeSpotter. You would just add the new location and coordinates to the locationID.json file in the giraffe branch and then we review and take care of getting it to reflect on the site:

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