Add "pick first" matching behavior to the WorkBench

[grantfitzsimmons]

fedoras on the Speciforum:

When using Workbench in Specify6, I recall it was possible to set the match behaviour to, say, always “pick first” as to take the first entry of a range of possible matches. In Specify7, I no longer see that option leading to a lot of extra manual labour, because now you need to manually disambiguate numerous entries.

The lack of this option has led to the need to create branches in the past. See 8715143.

This branch modifies the Workbench uploader to choose an arbitrary agent when multiple agents are matched. The modification is just hardwired in with no control flag or anything. This was for experimental purposes.

Requested By: NHMD, New Mexico, and others

[specifysoftware]

This issue has been mentioned on Specify Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.specifysoftware.org/t/workbench-match-behaviour-lacking/1271/2

[grantfitzsimmons]

From Alexis Beck at NHM Geneva:

Hi, do you still think about implementing this “pick first” possibility in the matching behaviour? In my problematic case, there are numerous of localities which are real duplicates so I wouldn’t mind if the system would pick any of them so I can proceed with the import.

Unfortunately, the workbench asks me to disambiguate every case (more than 300) which is painful. What’s you suggestion? Should I first kill every duplicate before my import? Thanks!

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