Scythebill 18.4.0 is now available. It includes a much-enhanced "First records" query option, some improvements to trips browsing and trips reports, and some smaller features and bug fixes.
As always, download here, and let me know if you have any problems, either on Facebook or by email.
"First records" improvements
In previous versions of Scythebill, the "First records" query option let you get a list of world lifers, or lifers for a location or region. So if you wanted to know everything new for your ABA list on a trip to Texas, that was easy.
But if you kept other lists - like a "Photographed" list - there was no way in Scythebill to find what was new for that list. Now, it's easy!
When you choose "First records", instead of just a field to choose a location (or leave it blank for your world list), you can choose any report options just within "First records". So if you wanted to find out what's new for your Photographed list on a trip to Taiwan, choose a report for Taiwan, and then "First records". For "First records", choose "Photographed" and "yes".
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Expanded "First records" options
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There's one other meaningful improvement here. If you use "First records" should be "highlighted", Scythebill has long shown a species list with lifers in bold. Now, when you look at the sightings for a species, the relevant sighting will also be highlighted. So if you were generating that "new for your photographed" list, and you saw a bird multiple times but only photographed it once, that sighting will be in bold:
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| The first-photographed sighting of White-rumped Munia is highlighted |
Trip browsing and report improvements
Trip browsing now automatically shows endemic species - both the count of endemics present as well as those seen:
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| A successful trip to Taiwan! |
Those endemics will also be visible when you generate a trip report.
There's also a new option for generating trip reports - "Show threatened status?" - which can include the IUCN Red List status of species (everything worse-off than Near Threatened).
Smaller features and bug fixes
eBird exports will now automatically combine imported location names below the city/town level. So if you've entered sightings for "The Ramble" inside "Central Park" in New York City, Scythebill will create eBird exports with "Central Park--The Ramble" instead of just "The Ramble". This will, in particular, help users who import from observation.org and export to ebird.org.
Scythebill-format imports will, if you have multiple latitude/longitudes for a single location, automatically save a lat/long pair inside each sighting description.
The "centralis" subspecies of African Grey Woodpecker in the IOC taxonomy was incorrectly mapped to the "centralis" subspecies of Cardinal Woodpecker in eBird/Clements. This is fixed, and I've attempted to automatically clean up sightings. If you've seen African Grey Woodpecker in Tanzania, though, I can't detect whether data is correct, and you may have a mis-entered species.
A bug that garbled the display for some Windows users after opening a menu has been fixed.
