Search Side Bar
Until yesterday the Search panel on the right hand side would stay put when Results were displayed.
For some unfathomable reason someone has decided that it should disappear. Forcing you to hit F5 or the Search button again. Every single time.
When disappearing, the Results re-size which is really great on the eyes, too.
Then the Results re-size again to put the Search side bar in place.
It might be necessary to search 15 spellings of a name, times half a dozen parishes.
So you have to hit F5…EVERY, EVERY, EVERY single time…Genuis.
Edit: I suppose I should ask a question…Can it be fixed, please?
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Yes, this is a big step backwards. I personally doubt that "someone has decided that it should disappear"; rather, I would guess that it was an unintended side effect of some other change.
Another report of this is here: BUG REPORT: Record and Tree Search - Criteria panel closes when I click its SEARCH button
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I see the same bug. Using MacOS 15.6.1, Safari 18.6 and Firefox 142.0.1. Persists after clearing cookies and cache.
I'm sure this is just a good example of the law of unintended consequences and the fact that when dealing with large, complex, interconnected systems, you just cannot test for everything in updated coding before releasing it. Back in the mid-90's Discover magazine had a article about this and that was in those relatively primitive times.
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This issue has been resolved.
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Funny as I have the opposite complaint. I WANT the search panel to disappear (as it always had for me) so I can see the data! Someone 'fixed' it so now I have only half the data screen available as I used to unless I manually the panel. Maybe if the slider bar worked right so I could easily shift the data, I'd say I can work around it. But that reported oops has yet to be resolved. The website seems to get improvements that make it less useful. Please make 'Keep search panel displayed' an option so we all can make ourselves happy in our searches.
Someone will edit my post for saying things are wrong. I get it, I was a programmer and took offense when someone didn't like my design. You know what, I still had to fix it as the user is the one using your programming.
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