Taxon Tree Business Rule: Can't add child to synonym

[fedoras]

Hi there,

I have this particular issue where I need to add the following synonym to the taxon tree:

Abarema jupunba var. trapezifolia (Vahl) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

However, since the parent taxon in question is a synonym itself too, the system business rules won’t allow me to add a child to it:

But then how am I supposed to do this?

V7.9.6.2

[Grant]

Hi @fedoras,

There is a database preference where you can configure whether or not you can add children to synonyms:

Enable creating children for synonymized nodes

Starting in Specify 7.8.4, you can enable a secret preference that allows synonymizing a node that has children and adding children to a synonymized node. This has been requested by many members of the consortium, including @Ben, @Plarson, @Schuchert , and @HeatherC. You can enable this functionality by adding this line to your Remote User Prefs file in the App Resources viewer. If you have any questions or need some help, please feel free to send us a message! Allow Adding Children to Synony…

Can you try this and let me know if your issue is solved? Thank you!

[fedoras]

I tried, but it doesn’t seem to be working… I logged off and on again.

I am also trying this through scripted API calls which is how I discovered this business rule.

<h1>TreeBusinessRuleException\n       at /api/specify/taxon/</h1>\n   <pre class="exception_value">(";Adding node 'Abarema jupunba var. trapezifolia' to synonymized parent 'Abarema jupunba'", {"tree": "Taxon", "localizationKey": "nodeOperationToSynonymizedParent", "operaton": "Adding", "node": {"id": None, "rankid": 240, "fullName": "Abarema jupunba var. trapezifolia", "parentid": 14437, "children": []}, "parent": {"id": 14437, "rankid": 220, "fullName": "Abarema jupunba", "parentid": 14417, "children": []}})</pre>\n  

[fedoras]

Oh wait… I need to replace TREENAME with Taxon of course!