Brilliant John, many thanks :)

Good morning all,

I am having a similar issue to Fiona, but with recorders trying to record Whale/Dolphin Species.

We are running a public participation survey and many of the participants want to record (for example) Dolphin, but without going to species level.  The order (marine mammals) exist in the UK Master Species list (codes below), but you can't seem to enter this on iRecord (or equivalent).  Does this mean that they are not added to the search index table referred to in  a previous post or do I need to make a request to have dolphin sp. or whale sp. added to the dictionaries?

TVK    Preferred TVK    Name    Authority    Group    NameType
NBNSYS0000040768    NHMSYS0000376171    Cetacea     ORDER, MARINE MAMMAL    marine mammal    S
NHMSYS0000376171    NHMSYS0000376171    Cetacea    Brisson, 1762,  ORDER, MARINE MAMMAL    marine mammal    S

Jim,
I changed the changed_date to now(), so that the index entry was regenerated at the next run of the warehouse scheduled tasks.
Cheers
John

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your information/reply's.  Great to understand why the names we are expecting to find (E.g. dolphin) are not visible due to the UKSI link.

Yes I did consider having another species list in Indicia, but we are already running an invasive species list (alongside the master list) & I can see a way to have another list added (This is probably my lack of understanding rather than a restriction in Indicia).

Even with good help functions, I think that most members of the public will not be able to find Cetartiodactyla and will need to have common name associated with this redefined Order.  What is the best way to get this associated so the common name can be found in the taxon list in iRecord/Indicia?  Post in the relevant section of the general announcements forum to get NHM staff to associate Cetartiodactyla with whales & Dolphins?