FullName field in Geography tree

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Hi,

I am wondering how is the FullName field in the Geography tree calculated. I thought this field concatenates the values in the Name field for parents and children and I expected that updating the Name field for a country, for example, would automatically update the FullName for that country and all its children, but that’s not the case. What am I missing?

We have Specify 7 Version: v7.11.4 ( I know! Old. We haven’t been able to upgrade to the newest version.)

Thanks,

Soraya

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Hi @sorosoro,

Thank you for your question!

The FullName field is constructed using the tree definition settings, so when the Name field is edited, the change should automatically propagate to it, unless the nodes impacted or updated have been synonymized, which would prevent updates.

In my testing, changes to a parent are immediately visible downstream in the FullName field of children on v7.12.0.7 and our upcoming release v7.12.1. Can you include screenshots or query results demonstrating this discrepancy?

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Hi Grant, thanks a lot for your reply!

It works well, a change in the parent is reflected right away in the FullName field when I do it in Specify.

I got confused because I changed the names of many countries (to the german name) directly in the backend and those changes do propagate to the FullName… Doh! :flushed_face:Sorry, I should have seen that earlier!