A few ways to improve Source tagging
Firstly, just wanted to say that the new person page is just excellent. Took a while to get used to it of course, like any change, but I wouldn't go back now. Especially the ability to tag sources against Alternate Names, Events and Facts has saved me so much time manually completing the "Reason This Information Is Correct" field. Thanks!
I just wanted to raise a few usability points. I haven't had a chance to read all the comments here, so apologies if these have already been discussed.
1) When selecting sources to tag, you need to be very precise when clicking on the checkbox. If you miss by a pixel (e.g. clicking in the blue "glow" around the checkbox) [screenshot 1], it opens the source information in a popup window, which you then need to close before trying to click the checkbox again [screenshot 2]. I've found this happening to me less over time, but when ticking multiple sources, it still slows me down a lot.
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2) When attaching a source to a person, and adding an event [screenshot 3], it would be great if that source was automatically tagged against the newly added event. Currently, you need to then edit each newly added fact [screenshot 4] and manually tag the source [screenshot 5]. This can take quite a while when adding a census record to a family, for example.
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3) I believe this is an existing issue with Couple Relationships, but I noticed it again while using the new Other Relationships feature. Basically, it just seems to be really difficult to add a source to a relationship, so much so that I usually don't end up adding them. Maybe I'm missing something, but it could certainly be more straightforward - ideally, the ability to tag a source that has already been added to the person against the relationship.
Cheers!
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All great observations
1) I can bring up the click target area. See if it can at least cover the highlighted area.
2) This one is on the raidar. This may be waiting for the new source linker.
3) I completely agree and so do many others. There are a number of ideas floating around. The data migration makes this a hard change to make.
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