Hi, I’d like to add my support for this request and also add that all data in an encounter record should be exportable via the standard export format.
As @lucas says, the exports are critical for a number of reasons, some of which are the difference between organizations being able to use Wildbook or not. Several national gov’t organizations require that all data be provided to them - such as the French gov’t dept that’s overseeing the use to Whiskerbook by the lynx organizations that @lucas is in the process of training up and bringing on board.
In Africa, there are laws in several countries that don’t allow the ‘export’ of wildlife data beyond their borders.
Newly on-boarded Panthera are creating exports from their internal system to import into Wildbook for ID. They expect to be able to export as much of the data as they require out of Wildbook to be re-imported back into their internal system, where the do further analysis, research and reporting, including donor reporting. Gaps in the encounter standard export are not ideal for their needs.
So there’s lots of support in the ACW and Whiskerbook community for the standard encounter export to contain all data fields from the encounter record. I think that’s what everyone would like to have from that export function. Some data fields may have more importance to some organizations or for certain purposes over others, but if the export contains all the data, then the users themselves can easily delete any data points from the excel file that aren’t relevant for their specific purpose at that point in time.
thanks
Maureen
thanks
Maureen