Filter by Source tags

BraydenGraves

I was about to try and filter a person's source list by tag, but when I went to do so, I discovered that that isn't even an option:

I know that the tagged sources can be checked from the details page, but this still feels like a weird omission.

Alan E. Brown

I'm not sure how your request could get implemented in a reasonable way. A source is tagged to a particular conclusion or event (birth, death, residence, immigration, alternate name, sex, etc.). A person might have dozens and dozens of such conclusions. Adding all of those as options would create a very messy list of tags on the filter panel. Whereas you can easily go to that particular conclusion/event on the details page and see exactly which sources are tagged to that conclusion, so the capability already exists in a tidy way.

BraydenGraves

@Alan E. Brown The changelog already has dozens of filter options, so I'm not sure that's an issue:

Alan E. Brown

The change log filter is by type of conclusion, not by specific conclusion. But a source tag is to a specific conclusion. As an example, a person may have 10 Residence conclusions. Each may be tagged to a different source.

You asked to be able to "filter a person's source list by tag." I'm not sure what you're asking for. Using the example of Residence, are you asking for:

• a filter with an option labeled "Residence" that would filter the list of sources to include all sources that have any kind of Residence conclusion tagged to a source? I'm not sure how useful that would be, but at least the list of filter options would be a reasonable length.
• a filter with multiple options such as "Residence: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States", "Residence: Seattle, King, Washington, United States", etc.? That seems to be what you are asking for when you say "by tag" but that could get unwieldy for people with a lot of conclusions.

BraydenGraves

@Alan E. Brown I'm not sure the list of locations would be very long for most people (It would almost certainly be shorter than the list of filters for the changelog, which has a grand total of 61 filters and still has some notable omissions!), but the reality is that, aside from marriages, I hadn't really given any thought to the the non-vital information. Perhaps some kind of "search for specific tag" function could be implemented, but that doesn't seem likely to happen. Or perhaps, after clicking the location tag, you could get a dropdown menu of all the locations that have been added to the person?

That still doesn't change the redundancy factor, but I knew it was redundant when I brought it up. As I said, in my original comment, it just felt like a weird omission, not something that is strictly necessary.

(And I'm just now realizing that some of the more potentially useful options would require the implementation of "record type" tags (such as if you wanted to only show census records). maybe this would be harder to implement than I initially thought.)

I guess you realized this before me, but this was not a well thought out request...