Find category changed again
They fixed this once so that when you go to FIND it shows the last use of either find by NAME or FIND by ID which was very convenient. Now, once again, it always defaults to find by NAME which is a nuisance if you are finding all day by ID and have to keep clicking back every time you need to search.
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Suggestion: stop using Find for that. There's a box at the top of Recents that will take you straight to a profile, or you can simply replace the ID at the end of the URL on a profile that you're done with.
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Thanks, but it is less bother to just click on Find by ID than to go to Recents and wait for it to load. Just find it odd that they changed from the more person friendly way of having the last use come up each time.
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For me, Family Tree - Recents and Family Tree - Find both take about a second and a half to load, and paste-go on the former takes a fraction of the time and effort of paste-search-wait-click-click on the latter.
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Whilst I nearly always use the "Recents" option to search by ID, I find it better to use the Recents found in the drop-down (as illustrated), rather than by clicking on the one found immediately above an individual's name whilst on a profile page. Taking the former option, you are able to right-click and open in a new tab, then paste in the desired ID. In the Recents option that is seen from a profile page, there is no right-click option, so you automatically lose the page you are working on once you hit "Go" after pasting the ID.
As far as the point being raised in the OP, although I never use this method myself (of using FIND to get to a profile page), that extra click wouldn't worry me at all, as when adding a child to parents (or a similar action, like adding a spouse to an individual) I find I am always alternating between adding by ID or adding by name, so that clicking back and forth between the two options is a common practice for me.
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@Paul W, on the secondary/horizontal menu's Recents, you can right-click the Go button to open the new profile in a new tab.
The advantage of the version in the top menu (Family Tree - Recents) is that it's available on non-Family Tree parts of the site, such as the Catalog or Search - Records.
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However, did I miss that?! True, clicking on "secondary menu's" Recents itself doesn't give a direct opportunity to open in a new tab/window, but clearly - as you illustrate - once the ID has been pasted in there's no problem.
I'm now completely with you about there being no need at all to use FIND to get to a profile by using the ID - including not losing the page one was still working on, of course. Glad I brought up the "problem", which - as you show clearly - does not exist, after all!
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Ever since the Recents tab was moved to the Family Tree menu, I find that I use Find much more than I used to. Primarily when there is an ID number posted in Communities to check out and I am not on a FamilySearch page that has Recents in the tool bar. Yes, Recents and Find are right next to each other in the drop down menu. Yes, maybe they take the same time to load. But it feels like Find loads faster. Probably because it just appears all at once and Recents sits there and flickers as the column of names rolls down and adjusts itself. In any case, as long as Find is there it should work most efficiently for people and we have proof they can have it maintain its last used state. So unless they have had overwhelming feedback that the majority of users want Name to always be the default state, I agree it should be fixed for those who do want to use it and have the default be the last used state.
Three roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel all
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down two as far as I could
To where they bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the third, as just as fair,
And quickly found a big pothole,
Which I filled in in five minutes;
And found as I travelled on
That I cut an hour off my journey,(With apologies to Mr. Frost)
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@Gordon Collett, thanks for the laugh!
Perceptions of time are weird, aren't they? Find by ID has a "search" step that Recents entirely skips, saving not just time, but effort, and perplexity (or opportunity for aggravation, take your pick) at the way Find's not-really-a-list behaves: the logical thing, clicking the name, results in a popup and the need for another click, but a random (accidental) click on the background results in the profile opening with that single click.
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