How can we create data consistency between re-surveys of flora populations?

[brookerichards]

Problem

We need to be able to have consistent location descriptions between re-surveys of existing flora populations and subpopulations.

Feature

Is there a way to create a function that pre-fills location description and other fields that should remain static after selecting the ‘species’ and ‘area code’? Giving the user the ability to write-over this information if required?

[florianm]

TODO: explain in docs. Draft for docs:

Flora Populations are known in TSC as "Taxon Area Encounters" or "Taxon Encounters". The "Area" on which the taxon (flora taxon) is encontered has several properties:

• a polygon around the population or surveyed extent, or only a representative point as in the legacy data
• an Area type - Flora population, Flora subpopulation, TEC boundary, Fauna site, etc.
• an Area "name", which uniquely identifies the Area - in flora's case, the population or subpopulation number
• an Area "code" (URL-safe representation of the Area name), in flora's case, the population or subpopulation number

Within one taxon, encounters (= occurrences) of the same area code (and name) are grouped together. In Flora terms, all encounters of the same taxon and area code are considered to be of the same population or subpopulation. The yellow place marker icon in the occurrence card pans the map to the respective occurrence. TODO: filter occurrences shown on map to given area codes = population numbers.

How to move all/some occurrences of one population to another population (e.g. split or merge populations): Find all relevant occurrences under "Taxon Encounters" in the data curation portal (TODO: add a link to each population occurence card to save some mouse clicks), and use the bottom left menu to "bulk update" the area code and name.