Auto fill in date fields should be consistent

Mavis B. Molto

Suggestion: When searching Family Tree, the date field autofills from the "from date" to the "to date. However, when searching historical records or genealogies, this does not seem to happen. I feel it should be consistent, with autofill in all "to" fields or no autofill. Otherwise, I begin typing in the "to" field and autofill is triggered midstream, so I have to retype the field.

genthusiast

To clarify (hopefully) just a bit: The Search> Records and Search> Genealogies - default date fields trigger with the alert: "! end year must be greater than start year."

instead of autofilling the same year as FamilyTree>Find does.

I am also noticing a 'possible' bug (similar behavior no matter the order of 2 and 3)

1. Search> Records (or Genealogies)
2. Remove the default Life Event: Place
3. Enter name and then select another Life Event other than Any (doesn't seem to matter which) begin typing in the 'place' and date fields
4. Notice how Any auto-selects and the default Place and Date fields reappear.

I don't know if this is FamilySearch suggesting that it will be a better search if these defaults are entered or why this happens.

Paul W

The only place I had previously noticed the autofill behaviour is in the FIND section of Family Tree.

Mavis B. Molto

I hope the comments here will be brought to the attention of FamilySearch developers. I am sure they have a long list of improvements to make.

Consistency helps the searcher know how the date field works across the board (in Family Tree, Records, Genealogies, etc.).