iSpot & EML project blog

Over the last week I managed to move on significantly with the implementation of the Species dictionary on the site and am now working on making the predictive use of this when users are adding scientific and English to their determinations. After a couple of attempts at developing a user friendly way of integrating this feature I’ve opted to keep it as simple as possible, with a predictive field for both the scientific and English names, and then a button saying something like ‘get recommended’ that will then replace these fields with recommended values if the user clicks it. It’ll be easier to explain once I’ve implemented it.

Rich L has been busy not only creating a custom reports for iSpot team members to view, but also a reports area for these and a block linking to this to make live easier to navigate to them. As well as this he’s created a news area on the site with a block that appears on the front page to allow the dissemination of site info to users. He’s spent time with tweaking the S159 integration to make sure that’s working correctly and a few other tweaks to the site such as tidying up the latest observations page.

As well as working on the species dictionary I’ve also been doing some site maintenance and small tweaks including changing the ordering of the list on the changes page, and allowing any registered user to agree with an identification regardless of whether they have reputation.

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