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🛰🐦 Bird tracking - GPS tracking network for large birds
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tag-readout-method not saved #120

Closed peterdesmet closed 5 years ago

peterdesmet commented 5 years ago

@sarahcd, in my ref data mapping I have set tag-readout-method to other wireless. This seemed to work fine in the mapping, but I notice that all the data have been saved with empty values for that field. I have since manually corrected it.

Maybe it is because the value in the DB is other-wireless (with dash instead of space). In any case, would be good to warn the user the value doesn't match the vocab.

sarahcd commented 5 years ago

You're correct that for controlled-list values with multiple words, if the values in the file contain a space, Movebank will not make a guess at the mapping and the user will need to define it, e.g. mapping from "other wireless" > "other-wireless". In the example below this hasn't been mapped and the value of "other wireless" is shown as not set:

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Click on the dropdown list to map this value to "other-wireless". If some values remain not set after saving the mapping, the fields will show as empty in the preview if they are present in the top rows of the file:

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There's no option to skip the mapping of controlled list variables, i.e. there is always a step where the user checks and has the chance to complete/correct the guesses Movebank makes with the mapping. That said I agree a warning message if there are unmapped rows could be helpful.

peterdesmet commented 5 years ago

Ok, I think it would mostly help that the controlled vocab at https://www.movebank.org/node/2381 has other-wireless (without space). Idem for other vocab values with spaces.

I'm going to update my SQL script to output it as other-wireless, so it maps automatically.