Hi. I have added a Host Taxon ID relationship in the Collecting Event Attributes table of a collection. It seems to be working well.
Now I want to add another relationship to that collection (i.e. the left side collection), this time an Object relationship in the Collection Object table. But I cannot create a new relationship type.
In the form to add a Collection Relationship Type I can enter a name, but not the left and right side collections, whatever collection name I enter, it gets deleted. And nothing happens when clicking the magnifier glass.
I also cloned the Collection Relationship Type that is working well, and I could change the name of the relationship and save it as a new Collection Relationship Type, but I could not change the left and right side collection.
There is a known bug with the Collection Relationship Type form in Sp7 where it has reverted to the default form of Sp6, making it rather dysfunctional.
There is a GitHub issue that I have updated and passed along to the development team to be addressed with higher priority.
In the meantime, I have just two ways for you to work around this.
You can create the new collection relationship type through Specify 6. For this I recommend following the documentation we have here on the Forum.
If you have access, a new collection relationship type can be created with through SQL at the database level.
For the second option, I was given these instructions to help guide you through that process:
I believe the documentation had previously had the url string /specify/view/collectionreltype/new/, when this post makes clear that the url should be /view/collectionrelationship/new, which I have tested and is displaying as intended. I notice that they are slightly different, but reltype seems to be a valid url but with a buggy form (at least on my end), so may wish to investigate when going into this section of the documentation.
Edit: I see now that the relationship type is a subform of collectionrelationship. It is just the arrow above the name field that makes it look like there should be something there, (fields on either side of the arrow)
Unfortunately, the initial workaround I offered on this post was not valid.
Please see the edits to my response for the updated suggestions in establishing a new collection relationship type in Sp7.