Improve species selector about gbif-alert HOT 13 CLOSED

Wow! I love it. 🔝
I like how you can select by tag and the checkbox to select/unselect species! It makes selecting very intuitive and the colorful interface is pleasant to use.

One small suggestion: I would allow users to select species by multiple tags. For example: all plants and crayfishes (but no other animals) from the union list.
As far as I know, selecting multiple tags is everywhere the normal way to play with tags.

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Yeah I had this in mind, too!

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@damianooldoni: the change is now implemented, can you try it on https://dev-alert.riparias.be/?

If it looks good to you, I think we can deploy to production.

Would you be available quickly after that to add the relevant tags (in the Admin's species section) so users can fully benefit from the new features? (I have no idea if the "animal", "crayfish", "Species of union concern", ... tags that I choose for the demo on dev are the correct ones). In that case, I can also add them myself, but I'll ask for you to check I didn't made any mistake in the data.

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Tags added to admin species panel. They are visible on production now.

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Indeed, we need partners' input. But, for the draft version, I give you already some basic ideas:

• very likely we will need to allow users to select species by vernacular name (maybe easier to hardcode them? The vernacular names (in English) can be found in the questionnaire (see questions 13-15) we used for business analysis. And we can start with English names only
• typeahead future is something nice to ease the selection of the species, indeed, as species of EU concern are a long list
• I would wait for adding grouping species feature

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IMPORTANT: grouping features discussed here below is something to add to the roadmap towards version 2.

In the species selector, users should find predefined lists. Based on discussion with @niconoe and @bramdhondt today, the following lists should be present (I group them by scope for better overview):

Taxonomic scope

• all plants
• all animals
• all vertebrates
• all invertebrates

Further groups (reptiles, mammals, etc.) could be added later based on users feedback.

Functional scope

• all aquatic plants
• all riparian plants (notice that some species can be both aquatic and riparian)
• all freshwater crayfishes (a quite RIPARIAS specific functional list)
• all terrestrian plants: empty within RIPARIAS project, but interesting for data providers/publishers contacted by RIPARIAS, e.g. RATO vzw, or for other needs of institutions of the RIPARIAS consortium, e.g. INBO.

Depending on needs of the users community extra predefined lists could be added.

Specific project related scope

• all species in project proposal
• all species in alert list
• all target species (the union of the two above)

Note: specific project related predefined lists should be removed after the end of the project. Functional lists should be enough.

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See also #165.

Stijn (VMM) also mentioned that a select all/unselect all feature might come handy

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Indeed, @niconoe: Stijn told that this feature would be helpful for selecting for example all species except one or two. A click-saving feature 🖱️

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Given that we want to use multiple kind of (non exclusive) classifications, I am thinking a tags mechanism might be a better option than categories/groups here.

I'll sleep on it, but if we want to proceed like that, django-taggit looks like a sensible option!

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Hey @damianooldoni / @timadriaens a decent (I think!) first version of a new species selector is now implemented (on the main dashboard page (for filters, not yet for the alert form) and visible on the dev server:

The following features are available, but I am not sure if it's immediately understandable to users:

• The species list can be sorted by clicking on the row header
• More data shown: scientific and vernacular names, GBIF taxon key, ...
• Tags can be assigned (via the admin). They are also visible there and allow to classify around multiple overlapping scopes: taxonomic, functional, projects-related, ...
• Users can filter by name of GBIF Id by typing in the text field
• Users can filter by tag by clicking on a tag at the top of the modal. Clicking a second time will remove the filter.
• All visible species (according to filters) can be selected or unselected in one click using the checkbox in the header row.

Can you try it and provide some feedback?

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As discussed in chat, we agree to deploy to prod.

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Hey @damianooldoni, can we consider this feature complete?

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Sure. Issue solved 🚀

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