Checklist functionality, including statistics
| Project: | Scratchpads |
| Version: | 7.x-2.0 |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Laurence J Livermore |
| Status: | active |
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Description
When I type in new terms in my taxonomy I explicitly select the taxon level of that new term in a drop down menu (species, genus, family etc.). Is it possible to use that information to create a little block to count and display these taxa numbers? [Stefan Imhof]
- By Irina Brake at 2010-09-17 15:19
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#1
#2
Hello,
I'd like to revive this issue, started some month ago. Any progress here?
Greetings,
Stephan
#3
Stephan. What you're after appears to be some form of "checklist" functionality on top of the taxonomy editor. We intend to put this into place over the course of the next year. In the mean time, I can possibly create a block specifically for your site. Can you tell me exactly how you would like your data to be displayed.
#4
Dear Simon,
thank you very much for your promising message. The form of presentation of these data is secondary, to have it at all would be very useful. It could simply be an amendment (perhaps substitution) of the little numbers shown behind the terms of the classification tree (in my scratchpad on the left hand side, called 'Mycoheterotrophic Plants'). Then the reader would instantly see how many families, genera, species are subsumed under this term (instead of the term number of the suordinate level, which not always is the desired taxon level and also includes the not accepted terms). For example, in my case the term 'monocots' (momentarily there is a '(5)' behind it, for the 5 following terms which are orders) would be followed by '(7F, ?G, ??S)' or '(7 fam., ?gen., ??spec.) or how ever you feel it is best. They would display the numbers of accepted taxa under 'monocots' tagged either as family, genus or species. We could also include orders or subspecies, but this might make it too confusing). You may also create an entirely new block, perhaps called 'statistics' which count all accepted and not accepted taxa. This could then also tell the reader the less important taxon levels, like orders, subspecies or whatever other scratchpad authors use. Perhaps both is possible ;-)
Thanks a lot!
Stephan
#5
Is there a quick way of finding out the number of locations, specimens, images and so forth that is currently on the site?
#6
Hi there,
I am still interested in some sort of quick statistical info in the taxonomy module. It would be sufficient to simply count (number behind taxonomy terms containing children terms) only the 'accepted' (blue font) taxon-children of a taxonomy term, instead of all children (then including all synonyms as well).
It is quit annoying to count these valid names by hand (better: eyes) from the screen . . .
Cheers,
Stephan
#7
For users that are logged in the number of nodes of a certain content type can be seen at the bottom of the new matrix editor. However, sadly, the matrix editor doesn't work for the ITIS name content type.
#8
#454: Taxonomy: option to show completely extended classification was marked as a duplicate of this one.
#9
LL & MN to create design for BS. BS to add a default view for about this site (possibly under admin).
#10