Trait name conventions causes issue when exporting Field Book photos on Windows computers

[ch728]

Field Book exports photos with the trait name appended. The trait name, following ontology conventions used in Breedbase has a ":" in it. The ":" is not allowable in file names on Windows file systems, so the file name gets mangled; thus, making it difficult to upload the images to Breedbase.

[nickmorales]

hi @ch728 on windows is it allowed to have a file name with a backslash before the :, like myfilename_ONTO\:001111.png? Another solution suggested by @bellerbrock is to not use ontology traits when taking photos, or use a string like "photo". I believe that is how it was intended to be used.

[ch728]

It doesn't like that either. I understand what you mean by the photos not needing to be ontology traits. I think that will be our solution for now. The downside is that if we do it like that then we can't pull the photo traits into Field Book via BrAPI. I guess another solution would be to push the photo traits directly from Field Book to the database using BrAPI rather than exporting to the Windows computers and then uploading.

[trife]

@ch728 If we remove the colon characters in the exported image files will that break the ability to import those images directly into breedbase?

[ch728]

@trife, yeah I believe that would break the import. These are the two formats allowed:

The first upload option is the problem child because of the trait names having colons. The second option should work for us, but will require some reformatting. I think doing it via BrAPI would probably work as is, but currently we only import traits via BrAPI.