Reduce clicks to simplify processes
Situation: When I am working in Family Tree and when Searching for records, I now have to click through multiple layers of windows in order to achieve some basic tasks.
Need: I would like to do less clicking through multiples of windows, or confirming multiple times that I want to do something.
Outcome: The desired outcome is more work for less effort.
Benefit: This is important to me because working harder makes me more fatigued which, in my case, is a big deal. I love working in Family Tree and these recent changes are making it harder for me to do the thing that I love.
Helpful Additions:
For doing Searches (which are often necessary when dealing with erroneous merges), I now have to:
1. enter the search parameters
2. every time I need to edit one of those parameters, I am now required to re-open the "Source" part of the window because it closes automatically
...and I have to do this for each and every revision to a search. It is only by creative searches that I can find the needed information, which means I often do revisions to the search parameters.
This is the one that is the worst for me and seems unnecessary. Anyone wanting a larger viewing area has the option of closing the "Source" portion. To have it close automatically is causing me a lot of extra work.
Along these same lines, perhaps the new steps to tagging could be re-evaluated and streamlined a bit, to the benefit of those people who are working diligently to clean-up tagging. This is the process as it stands now:
1. enter the event as if to edit (same as it's always been)
2. click on "Tag Sources"
3. however doing any tagging is now gated behind the need to indicate again that I want to do some tagging; click on "Select Source"
4. select the desired source(s)
5. click "Save"
6. ending the 'session' is now gated behind needing to click on "Exit"
Thank you for your consideration of my suggestion.
Comments
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After using the new Full Text searching, I can see why the search area is closing automatically. It works very well for those searches, but not so much for searching within Family Tree.
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