Scythebill 16.3 is now available! It adds several small improvements and refinements; in particular, it's much easier to edit existing sightings. As always, download here, and let me know if you have any problems, either on Facebook or by email.
Editing existing sightings
Entering new sightings is easy, but getting back to the "Edit sightings" screen - to edit all the sightings from that visit - has always been a lot more difficult than it should be. There was one way, buried deep in "Browse by location", but it was hard to find.
Now, it's easy: any time you select a sighting, whether in "Browse by species", "Browse by location", or even "Show reports", you'll see a new Visit sightings... button. Click that, and you'll be taken to the "Edit sightings" screen with a list of all the sightings from that same visit.
Location checklist spreadsheet improvements
When you save a location checklist as a spreadsheet, there's two new options:
- First, you can turn off including family names, which can make your spreadsheet much shorter.
- Second, you can add a column for whether a species is a lifer. Previously, the only option was marking the species name in bold, which was hard on those of you who like to write spreadsheet formulas.
BirdLasser import improvements
Scythebill now supports BirdLasser users who use scientific names as something other than the "Tertiary" name.
Scythebill also had a bug that could lead to some species being dropped from BirdLasser imports. This would only happen in cases where the "ISO Date" column - which has date/time down to the millisecond! - had multiple species with the exact same value.
Small fixes
- In some very odd cases, US states whose two-letter abbreviation matches a country's two-letter abbreviation might display as that country. (For example, Pennsylvania would appear as Panama!)
- State/province lists are updated for a few countries, to match updated eBird treatment. The only really significant changes were for France, which changed from 22 regions to 13. (Scythebill will automatically rearrange your records to match.)