In the past it was a bit difficult to deal with the issue that arose when there were duplicate plant entries in the database. Admins had to manually move the images and comments over to one entry, and then delete the other entry. Anyone who had plants in their lists were affected, along with growers reports and tagged images in the Multi-Plant images.

So I have written a "Merge two plants" feature. So now if you see duplicate plants, just open one of them (it doesn't matter which) and click on "Merge this plant entry with another"

Then search for the other plant and select it and submit the proposal. When it is approved by a moderator, the system will:

1) Figure out which entry is older.

2) Move everything from the newer entry to the older one (list entries, images, comments, tagged plants.)

3) Delete the newer of the two.

I tested it on Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Sungold') (which was duplicated by an entry called 'Sun Gold') and it worked perfectly!

What a great and helpful new tool Dave. Thank you so much.

valleylynn said:What a great and helpful new tool Dave. Thank you so much.

Wow.

valleylynn said:What a great and helpful new tool Dave. Thank you so much.

Always improving and making everything efficient!

That's why we're winning.

Egg-zactly!

Sweet!

I bet this means that we won't have as many difficulties with keeping track of plants in our lists. If the name changes now, all of the previous content should merge over, right?

That's exactly right, Chelle.

Another excellent innovation.

Just ran across another duplicate, proposed a merge, and voila - done and done! Great new feature. Tip: it may be easier to find duplicates by being LESS precise in your initial search to bring up more potential duplicates that are entered slightly different.