Updating location ID on bulk import or large number of encounters

[ljfeyrer]

I am working in Flukebook and my location ID did not import in the recent bulk upload, so as there were only 200 encounters, I was changing this manually by encounter… until I got tired and also noticed that the results table for my largest project had a mix of general Location IDs (i.e., Atlantic Ocean North) and the specific location (e.g., Scotian Shelf). I am pretty sure that the majority of these encounters should have same Location ID for matching purposes. Is changing encounter locations in bulk a feature that could be added or does this require a bespoke help request ?

[Anastasia]

Hi @ljfeyrer, welcome!

You’re in good company; here’s the feature request post for this issue:

Bulk update locationID

Hi all, What Wildbook should this feature be in? Zebra Wildbook, but I believe it also applies to other wildbooks. What would you like to see? I would like the Wildbook to have an option to update the location ID of a bulk of occurrences at the same time. How would this functionality help you? I recently requested to create a new location ID because the algorithm was suggesting matching individuals that couldn’t be the same as the ones in my study area. However at that point I had almost…

The Wildbook release for 10.8.0 will be dedicated to bulk import improvements and will include letting users update locations IDs in a bulk import without having to do it manually.

In the meantime, if you want to change the location ID on a bulk import to the same single location, give me the link to the bulk import and let me know what the new location ID should be and we can fix it for you.