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Typestatus should be cleared when set to "None" #480

Open FedorSteeman opened 4 months ago

FedorSteeman commented 4 months ago

As per personal communication with @AstridBVW there is a problem with the option of "None" for typestatus once this arrives into Specify, because when it's exported to GBIF, GBIF raises a flag "Type status invalid". Ideally, the typestatus should be cleared when "None" is chosen.

This can probably be easily fixed either by:

  1. Remove "None" option from DigiApp
  2. Or clear the "None" option in GREL

Option 1 is probably preferred.

We should also clean up these invalid typestatuses in Specify.

FedorSteeman commented 4 months ago

@PipBrewer and @bhsi-snm to discuss the need for the "None" option.

PipBrewer commented 2 months ago

Actually I probably need to chat to GBIF. There is a growing international need to fill in blank fields to meet MIDS standards amongst other things (to differentiate between data not captured and data not existing for example).