Scythebill 17.0.2 is now available. This release includes no new features, only bug fixes and small improvements. As always, download here, and let me know if you have any problems, either on Facebook or by email.
Update: Scythebill 17.0.3 included a number of additional bug fixes and small features.
Import/export fixes
- Observation.org/Waarneming imports will work once again - they changed their format to use localized strings for group names ("Vogels" instead of "Birds") and place names.
- An error message some users saw in imports while looking up locations is resolved.
- Very large eBird exports (large enough to require multiple files) would split almost all checklists across those files. They'll now be much better at keeping checklists together in each file.
- 17.0.3: eBird files can now be imported directly from .zip files - especially useful for eBird's "MyData" mass exports, which come as .zip files.
- 17.0.3: Some CSV editing software would add "byte-order marks" to CSV files which usually don't have them, breaking imports. Scythebill now always supports these files (by ignoring the byte-order marks).
- 17.0.3: Scythebill now gives a much better error message if a provided Wildlife Recorder "locations export" file appears to be invalid.
- 17.0.3: "Observado" imports are now properly named "Observation.org".
Spreadsheet fixes
- When Scythebill picks an earliest or most recent sighting, it no longer ignore times; it is now used as a tie-breaker when dates are the same.
- Saving a multi-taxonomy checklist as a spreadsheet in Browse by location should be much faster.
- Report spreadsheets sometimes had overly wide common name, scientific name, and location columns. These should now be much more reasonably sized.
- 17.0.3: There is now a "#" column in sorted report spreadsheets, which skips uncountable taxa (like sp's, hybrids, and escapees).
Other changes
- Windows users who tried to open up Scythebill files from directly in .zip files would be unable to save; now, they'll get a warning message as soon as the file is open, asking them to save a copy outside of the .zip.
- Scythebill will more consistently give you a good error message when you try to save into a folder that your operating system doesn't allow.
- 17.0.3: Scythebill had stopped showing "new for year" if these were the first species of any sort to be recorded that year, a common problem on Jan. 1!
- 17.0.3: Using the "even more specific?" feature for entering very specific locations would incorrectly reset the parent location to World.
