Bulk Import Field for Salinity?

What Wildbook are you working in? Internet of Turtles

What is the entire URL out of the browser, exactly where the error occurred?

Can you describe what the issue is you’re experiencing?

I would like to put the Salinity value into my Bulk Import spreadsheet but the documentation doesn’t list a field for this value. I can see it in the More Details tab.

Can you provide steps on how to reproduce what you’re experiencing?

If this is a bulk import report, send the spreadsheet to services@wildme.org with the email subject line matching your bug report

It looks like it should be Encounter.measurement1 or Sighting.measurement1 depending on if you want to apply the measurement to a single encounter or all the encounters in a sighting based on the commonconfigurations.properties file.

#MeasurementEvents
measurement0=WaterTemperature
measurementUnits0=Celsius
measurement1=Salinity
measurementUnits1=nounits
measurement2=carapacewidth
measurementUnits2=cm
measurement3=carapacelength
measurementUnits3=cm
measurement4=weight
measurementUnits4=kg

#Sampling Protocol for MeasurementEvents
samplingProtocol0=directlymeasured
samplingProtocol1=estimated

I’m putting this here before testing it myself because you may be able to verify this faster than I can as I’m still testing the individual ID bug in IoT today.

So, I played around with it. I included a column header ‘Encounter.measurement1’ but the salinity didn’t show up, BUT, if I add a column header ‘Encounter.measurementUnits1’ and I can put Encounter.measurementUnits1=ppm or anything else - and then the Salinity populates. The display is goofy, it’ll pull in Encounter.measurementUnits1=nounits or ppm (which is the units I’m using).

So, I tried something similar with Temperature and it didn’t change

Encounter.measurement1

Thanks for doing that! I threw in as many measurement combinations as I could in a single import to see what saved and in my test spreadsheet I did get salinity to appear under Encounter.measurement1 but it sounds like it needs a corresponding field in order to display based on your own testing. I suspect it accepted Encounter.samplingProtocol1 for this, but it also showed up as nounits for me.

I need to bug the devs tomorrow and do more testing so I can update the help docs to reflect the correct measurement fields and values.

Cross-posting this ticket here: IoT - Water temp and salinity measurements and sampling protocol won't save or import · Issue #1406 · WildMeOrg/Wildbook · GitHub