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Web Indexing: Update 'Keyboard shorcuts for indexing'

genthusiast
genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
September 17, 2021 edited October 14, 2021 in Suggest an Idea

Most of the shortcuts found on the shortcuts page operate but some, at least on my system don't appear to work.

I will have to come back to this idea to list and update the ones I am indicating as not operating as I expect.

But it would be nice to have someone at FamilySearch check as well.

One for sure that does not operate as I would expect (again at least on my system):

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Note: I have since learned Ctrl + G DOES function for a Project with filmstrip and not a Batch with Reference images (I am leaving the above note to make it clear the non-funtioning of Ctrl + G with 'Reference Images' - there is no shortcut to 'Reference Images - as I now understand it.)

Question: Contextual help for 'International Characters' does not include keyboard shortcut 'Ctrl + I' - it should show 'International Characters (Ctrl + I)' ?

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021 edited September 18, 2021

    @genthusiast 1 Good catch. I experienced the same behavior you did. These shortcuts for Organize Fields made sense (and worked, I imagine) during the Desktop Indexing days when the Arbitrator needed to align the Fields from the work of Indexer A and Indexer B. Nowadays, one can move Fields around (only in FORM Entry Mode) by dragging and dropping - on demand - no shortcut needed. And one can restore the default Field order by accessing the three dots menu.

    Alt+S does not do a Submit Batch - it seems to create a zip file from the tabs I use and tested with Chrome.

    Ctrl+Shift+S does not do a Share Batch - but some strange HTML save as.

    I couldn't test Ctrl+G or Ctrl+L.

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021

    @John Empoliti If field order is rearranged in Table mode - is this 'setting' held between modes? If so, at least in Batches of those Projects offering - it could be a workaround.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021

    Hi, @genthusiast 1 . I wish that rearrangement of Fields were possible in Table Entry mode. I and others have asked for that option. But it isn't possible now. That was an early morning error/ wishful thinking that I have corrected in my post. Rearrangement of Fields is only possible in Form Entry Mode. I apologize for the incorrect info.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/377499#Comment_377499

    @genthusiast 1 clever idea, but unfortunately, Field order changes made in Form Entry mode don’t carry over to any other Data Entry mode. So it’s not possible to finesse/work around the lack of that Field rearrangement feature in the other modes.

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021 edited September 18, 2021

    @John Empoliti I wasn't seeing the reordering take place but...

    Wait, I just tried again and it's probably due to my sloppy drop - If I'm careful it does seem to move the order....

    I wonder if only some Project have the capability included. The 3 dot menu has Reset Fields but it does nothing that I can tell - obviously if you can't reorder there's no need to reset.

    I can Hide Fields, but not exactly the same thing.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 18, 2021

    @genthusiast 1 Changing the Field order in Form Entry mode and (optionally?) allowing the changed Field order to be “inherited” by the other modes (when available for a project) might be a low-overhead way to implement the feature for all modes.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 19, 2021

    @genthusiast 1 It can be a bit squirrely, and sometimes a Field "springs back," and I need to retry, but I've never found a Project where I couldn't eventually get the Fields where I wanted them. Sometimes I have accidentally touched a Field when Reviewing or Indexing and had it go back to the top. That's why I have asked for the ability to "lock" the Fields in place - to avoid accidentally re-positioning one of them.

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