Taxon author not displaying in the tree

[grantfitzsimmons]

Describe the bug
When Specify 6 has "Display Taxon Author in the tree view" checked in Preferences, the author of each taxon is displayed in the tree. In 7, this behavior is not replicated and there is no way to enable this.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable "Display Taxon Author in the tree view" in Specify 6.
   
2. View tree in 6 to verify this change was successful.
3. View tree in 7.
4. See error

Expected behavior
The author should display after each taxon entry.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Edge
• Specify 7 Version: 7.6.1

Reported By
Unitec

[maxpatiiuk]

For future reference:
The remotepref responsible for this is called TaxonTreeEditor.DisplayAuthor

Need to add a needed column to the response object created in this function:

specify7/specifyweb/specify/tree_views.py

Line 39 in b65375f

def tree_view(request, treedef, tree, parentid, sortfield):

And then make front-end append the author name to node's name if needed

[grantfitzsimmons]

@maxpatiiuk Has this feature been added in the new release?

[maxpatiiuk]

No, not yet

[benritchie]

what's the plan with this fix? It looks from the above like the fix is known, but it doesn't seem to be in 7.7?
Is it likely this change will be made?
Thanks.

[grantfitzsimmons]

This has been requested by New Mexico, Unitec, and CSIRO. This should be addressed soon!

[grantfitzsimmons]

Requested by @Schuchert at the Community Forum as well.

This is something that should be addressed soon!

Geneva, New Mexico, Unitec, and CSIRO have requested

[specifysoftware]

This issue has been mentioned on Specify Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.specifysoftware.org/t/authors-of-taxon-names-in-sp7/937/5

[grantfitzsimmons]

Requested by Heather Cole at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada too.

This is something we need to prioritize.

[heathercole]

Requested by Heather Cole at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada too.

This is something we need to prioritize.

This is VITAL to our collection's quality-control and clean up of our tree (which is amazing in some taxo, and messy in others), particularly in botany where there can be multiple published names with different authors which reflect holdings in the collections. Tons of time lost clicking to view this basic info when there are taxa with the same names in the tree.

Even if hovering over the taxon meant that a pop-up would show the author would be helpful (like how the description of a field name is displayed when you hover over a field name)

[heathercole]

my heroes!!!!!

will help so much with quality-control and management of the tree!!!!

[specifysoftware]

This issue has been mentioned on Specify Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.specifysoftware.org/t/specify-7-8-5-release-announcement/1023/1