In which Wildbook did the issue occur? Spot a Shark Australia
What operating system were you using? Windows10
What web browser were you using? Google Chrome
What is your role on the site? Researcher
What happened? New photos are being added for Australia and I am unable to edit them or check the photos because I was not named as the submitter. Sean tells me that this is a bug as researchers used to have the ability to check any photo for Australia.
What did you expect to happen? I expect to be able to edit new photos submitted by anybody for Spot a Shark Australia.
What are some steps we could take to reproduce the issue? I would suggest checking the permissions against the role Researcher and increasing permissions to be able to edit photos submitted by others?
Hi, @Sarah_Aus_SpotaShark !
Interesting. Your user account Sarah Handebeaux does have the regional roles that ought to enable you to edit. Can I trouble you to link me to an encounter or two or three where you are experiencing this inability to edit?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi, @Sarah_Aus_SpotaShark !
Interesting. Can I trouble you to click on one of them (i.e., the row in the results table) and tell me what happens?
-Mark
The IDs you gave me are sighting (a.k.a occurrence) IDs rather than encounters IDs! Once I figured that out and investigated the encounters (e.g., Spot a Shark | Login), I realized that
all six of these encounters have the location set to South Bondi but they don’t actually have a locationID, as you’re well aware because you posted about that here. So, once I create that location, I’ll go ahead and
assign these encounters to that location ID and
I’ll grant you and Sean the South Bondi-specific role so that you can edit.
I’ll let you know when I’ve done all of this here (hoping for very soon). Sound good?
Hi @MarkF, thank you for adding the South Bondi ID as a new location. However, I still do not have edit rights over the photos, and furthermore for encounters that have not been loaded to any site ID I cannot edit those either.
I will want to have the ability to edit photos for South Bondi initially, but soon I will need the ability to edit photos submitted for all of NSW. Happy to wait for that access, but for now it is critical that I have access to edit the new photos for South Bondi.
When people submit photos they are not mandated to select a site ID, and so we may always have this issue, so can you please continue fixing this bug so that I can edit all photos?
Hi @MarkF I have found that I am unable to edit lots of photos, even some of those loaded by me, that have been submitted without a location ID. Somehow some of the photos I uploaded are showing up without my name as the submitter too - like this one? Occurrence ID: 57bdf02e-3a88-48fe-8f1d-f037992698db
Very odd. I wonder if there is an underlying bug with the upload feature ?
Can I ask you to try something?
What happens when you sign in and upload an encounter vs. submitting an encounter from a logged-out state? Being listed under the “submitters” list in an encounter is something slightly different from being the owner of the encounter (which you should be if you are signed in and upload an encounter).
Since you do have roles for all locations in NSW, I would think that you should be able to edit encounters such as Spot a Shark | Login. I’ll be looking into that today.
Not being able to edit a photo that does not have a locationID makes sense to me, because you have the researcher role and then roles based on locations. This makes sense in terms of security for most other Wildbooks, so it’s not a bug.
If you send me a list of ENCOUNTER links (just the URL from the browser when you’re looking at an encounter rather than a sighting/occurrence), as opposed to OccurrenceIDs, that saves me a step, but I can assign those encounters that should have a certain location ID but don’t.
Cheers,
Mark
There are so many more to go through, but I will be here all day running through and finding the hyperlinks. Perhaps these examples may help you find the source of the problem?
There are another 65 encounters I would need to go through and check if I can edit, which I won’t have time to do today unfortunately. Hopefully what I have shared so far will help you work out what is going wrong.
Hi @MarkF if you find a solution on this one for me? There are a number of edits I need to work on and this issue is preventing me from finishing up my edits. Wondered if perhaps as an interim solution if I could be added as admin as well as Sean - or can only one person be admin at once?
Also, I’m currently working on safely purging SAS USA entries from the SAS AUS database. After that, there’s an urgent ticket on another project that I’m committed to. Afterwards, I’ll get to whichever resolution is agreed upon herein.
