You can customize the rank at which the counts for tree items will be calculated and displayed from within Specify. To modify this behavior, you can either add or edit the following lines in your Remote Preferences app resource within the App Resources viewer:
This is especially useful when you are using the “Show only nodes with associated objects” functionality as this depends on your tree count configuration.
The following lines should be present already, but if they are missing, you can add them by copying & pasting the lines below into your Remote Preferences app resource:
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Taxon=100
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Geography=200
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Storage=200
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.GeologicTimePeriod=0
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.LithoStrat=200
The value after the equal sign (100, 200, 0) corresponds to the Rank ID at which the counts will be displayed under. For instance, if you have the Rank ID of 100 set for the Taxon tree, by default all nodes under “Order” will have counts while higher nodes will not be counted.
If you would like the counts to display for all tree nodes, you can simply set each to 0:
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Taxon=0
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Geography=0
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Storage=0
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.GeologicTimePeriod=0
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.LithoStrat=0
If you want to hide the counts completely, you can set it to a high number like 99999, exceeding the maximum Rank ID value.
Default Taxon RankIDs
If you have created custom ranks or customized your tree from the defaults, you should create a query on the
taxontreedefitemtable to find the rank name and Rank ID (e.g. https://yourdatabase.specifycloud.org/specify/query/new/taxontreedefitem/)
By default, Specify assigns the following RankID values to the default ranks in biological collections when configuring your database. If you have modified your tree or added new ranks, please follow the above instructions on creating a query to find your exact IDs.
| Rank | RankID |
|---|---|
| Phylum | 30 |
| Subphylum | 40 |
| Superclass | 50 |
| Class | 60 |
| Subclass | 70 |
| Infraclass | 80 |
| Superorder | 90 |
| Order | 100 |
| Suborder | 110 |
| Infraorder | 120 |
| Superfamily | 130 |
| Family | 140 |
| Subfamily | 150 |
| Tribe | 160 |
| Subtribe | 170 |
| Genus | 180 |
| Subgenus | 190 |
| Species | 220 |
| Subspecies | 230 |
| Variety | 240 |
| Subvariety | 250 |
| Forma | 260 |
| Subforma | 270 |
Before the Change:
Counts only began below the rank of “Order” (100):
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Taxon=100
After the Change:
Counts now show for the entire tree (0):
TreeEditor.Rank.Threshold.Taxon=0
After logging out and back into Specify, you can navigate to the tree viewer and see the counts are now reflected!