Allow for ID to be seen whenever adding a Collaboration item
When I add a Note to the Collaboration section,there seems to be no consistency in whether I can see which ID I am working on. As illustrated, in the example shown in the upper screenshot, the ID is still visible with the box open, but in the lower example, it cannot be seen.
This was not a problem with the old pages. I thought to post this issue at the New Person Page group, but see it is hardly used now, so am not confident if the engineers are still picking up issues from there. Hopefully, they are from "Suggest an Idea"!
I will try this with different examples, as I'm fairly sure it's not browser related. However, in this case I have to clarify that I have used Edge in the first illustration and Firefox in the second.
Sometimes I see the ID I'm working on...
But on other occasions the ID is hidden...
This is important for me as I might have four or five pages open in different tabs - each representing a "John Thompson" of similar identity, so I want to make sure I am adding my note to the appropriate individual (by the ID being clearly shown once I begin to add the note. So, my "idea" is to rewrite the coding that affects the placing of the dialog box*, to allow it to appear lower down the page / screen on opening, so the ID is always clearly visible.
(* Excuse any incorrect terminology: "dialog box", "dialog window", "pop up"?)
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I have left my comments as originally posted, but feel this might be a browser issus, after all. Here is the "same" screenshot in using Chrome:
Now, just (the top) three-quarters of the ID can be seen! I will continue to test this to see if the consistency in behaviour is definitely based on browser. Also, I appreciate I can work around the problem by using Ctrl -, but (as I seem to have the size of display adjusted to the same level in all three cases) I am hoping a "tweak" by the engineers might produce the result I am achieving in using Edge to be replicated when using Firefox and Chrome.
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Can you post a full screen shot of your first two images? There must be some difference in the structure of the page causing the popup to open in a slightly different spot. If we identify that for the engineers, that might help them track down the issue.
I have to say though that most of the time any of these popup boxes in all sorts of spots in Family Tree always seem to be covering what I want to see. Fortunately you can grab the title bar and drag them anywhere you want within the constraints of the window boundaries:
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Thank you so much for that advice, Gordon, although not already knowing this myself makes me feel rather silly! (Although I have tried so many things where click-and-drag is not an option that I guess I gave up on trying this - here and elsewhere.)
Given the problem is so easy to resolve, I don't really think my issue needs to be pursued. However, I did a further check that showed both in Chrome and Edge the default position for the pop-up appears to be about 2cm from its upper edge to the (blue) line above the name, whereas in Firefox the the measurement is only 1.5cm - resulting in the completely obscured ID detail.
Again, with my lack of knowledge on such issues, I don't know how to find the different sizes (in "Settings"?) that are required to be set to display these pages to suit my preference. I assume the three pages are slightly different "in size" (terminology problem again) according to the browser being used, but I seem to have them set as close to each other as I can adjust. (Adjusting by using Ctrl +/- causes them to appear of clearly different size, so I assume a display will always differ slightly, according to browser.)
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