Updating location ID on bulk import or large number of encounters

[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.