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Show if a record is attached to the selected person from family tree when performing a search

GabrielArtaud
GabrielArtaud ✭
January 5 edited January 5 in Suggest an Idea

When one starts a search for records from the Person page, the "search results" page shows if the records have already been attached to a person in the tree, which is convenient as it quickly lets the user focus on the records that have yet to be attached.

However sometimes the records have been attached to a duplicate of the person used to start the search (or an unrelated person for that matter), and it's not easy to realize that.

It would be therefore useful if a different icon or marking were used to show records that have been attached to the selected person (the one used to initiate the search) from records that have been attached to another person, making it easy to visually flag potential duplicates of persons or error of assignment of records.

This would be especially useful to notice when unconnected persons have been created from records by users that did not realize that the persons already existed in the tree, maybe under a slightly different name.

Thanks!

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  • Person Page Enhancement
  • Person Page Usability
  • Editing Record Details
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  • Jane Cantrell Brookman
    Jane Cantrell Brookman mod
    January 5

    @GabrielArtaud Your suggestion has been passed on to the appropriate department. Thank you for contributing.

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  • GabrielArtaud
    GabrielArtaud ✭
    January 5

    Thank you!

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 6 edited January 6

    Sounds like a nice idea. Any ideas of what would make a good icon?

    Screenshot 2023-01-05 at 7.23.07 PM.png

    I'm not overly thrilled with the chain links or target with arrow. The check mark isn't bad. Those three were all I could come up with.

    Such an icon would need to, of course, revert to the mini-pedigree if the Person From Family Tree header was closed.

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  • YColeman
    YColeman ✭✭✭
    January 6

    I would find that function very helpful. However, I have no ideas concerning icons. I am not that techy.

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  • GabrielArtaud
    GabrielArtaud ✭
    January 6

    Maybe a combination of the current icon and a checkmark on top of it?

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 6

    Current tree icon, but in a color. Bright green?

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  • MaileLoveland
    MaileLoveland mod
    January 6

    A paperclip like in the source linker?

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 7 edited January 7

    Combining some of the suggestions: a tree stublet (the current icon) plus a paperclip (like Source Linker)?

    image.png

    (Relying solely on color for an interface element is generally considered to be bad design, so I wouldn't recommend that one.)

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 7 edited January 7

    In the source box, a paper clip also means "already attached to this person."

    Screenshot 2023-01-06 at 6.47.12 PM.png

    Since that meaning is already established, the additional use to mean the same thing in the search results list should be easy for users to catch on to. I think I like the paper clip.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 7

    I do a lot of visual filtering of Search results, so if there are more icons that task will be much harder. I really, really want to be able to filter on: attached to the identified profile, attached to any profile, attached to more than one profile (a red flag circumstance), hint, nada.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 7 edited January 7

    See: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/136808/upgrade-request-for-the-record-search-results-screen/p1?new=1

    Is this what people have in mind? Please feel free to thoroughly critique and add further refinements! (If the image ever shows up. Right now it has the blue rectangle and hourglass.)

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  • James F. Carroll
    James F. Carroll ✭✭
    January 8

    This is wonderful to see rapid collaboration between development team and community members! It's very validating and encouraging to see a community suggestion move forward into prototyping.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 8

    Sorry for any confusion. I’m just another user offering an illustration of what I think we users are all taking about here and submitting some wishful thinking to the developers. No prototyping, just photoshopping.

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  • James F. Carroll
    James F. Carroll ✭✭
    January 10
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/487987#Comment_487987

    Oh, I see. Because you are proposing an enhancement, it might be better to post it using "Suggest an Idea" rather than as a "discussion":

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/suggest-an-idea

    That way it can receive up votes and I think will more quickly get to the development team.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 10 edited January 10

    @James F. Carroll This is the Suggest an Idea category! And I did upvote the original idea at the top of this discussion.

    If you mean I should not have posted a proposal in the New Person Page group, that is where we have been asked to post ideas for the new Person pages and things there seem to reach the developers fairly efficiently. Since with a little stretching of the imagination the search result list is rather closely connected to the new Person pages, it seemed like a reasonable place to post it.

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  • James F. Carroll
    James F. Carroll ✭✭
    January 17
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/488325#Comment_488325

    @Gordon, Oh! Sorry for missing that. My apologies. Hope your great idea gets more attention and makes it into the hands of decision-makers.

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