Arrangement of the tool bar on the person details page

Ray Garrison

For anyone working regularly in FamilySearch, the arrangement of the items in the tool bar on the person details page is extremely important. This is because the arrangement impacts the efficiency of their work. At present, the first item in the tool bar is About, the second item is Details, and the third item is Sources. Please move the About tool two spaces to the right to follow Sources. This would allow Details to be the first tool, Sources to be the second tool, and then About to be the third tool. For anyone working regularly in FamilySearch, the tools used most often are Details and Sources. Though a change in arrangement might seem like a minor thing to some people, having About as the first thing you see in the tool bar is distracting. The reason is because it's used only infrequently as compared to Details and Sources, which are used constantly in research work. Please, please make a change, and thank you for your help.

genthusiast

I understand the point about making the most used tab first. I think the reason the About tab is currently first - it is kind of a summary/discovery tab for the person - combining some of the information from other tabs. So it kinda makes sense that it is the first tab. The good thing about the tabs is - the webapp remembers which tab you selected to use last. So if you always use the Details tab - it will remember that - making the tab order a bit irrelevant. If I am already in the area selecting another tab - I don't find it too big a chore to select the one I want/need?

Julia Szent-Györgyi

When I switched to the new layout, it took me about one day to change my habits and stop clicking on About. Now I don't even notice it any more.

(Personally, I'd be perfectly happy if the About tab were moved all the way off the page somewhere, but ignoring its existence works, too.)

Gordon Collett

Since the About tab has seemed to confuse so many people who have posted complaints about the new page being very cluttered and not being able to do any work, not realizing they were not on the Detail page at all, I'd be fine with moving the About link to be the last item in the menu bar for public accounts and next to last for member accounts.