Ordinance work color changes.

LegacyUser

Roger C. Nilsson said: I understand the reason for the color changes of the symbols for temple ordinances and support the decision. However, I suggest another color shade be used, instead of green, when an ordinance is available to do but has been previously reserved by someone else. Green next to a name on the family tree or individual details page indicates to me that ordinances need to be done and have not been reserved at all. It is only after clicking through several screens that you discover otherwise which takes time.

Even so, if the change relieves the back log and furthers the temple work than I strongly support it and am happy to spend the extra time.

Thanks for all that you do.

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Tom Huber said: First, welcome to the community-powered feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

This has been discussed a number of times.

There are a couple of ideas floating around. At least one of them has been passed on to the engineers by Jim Greene, perhaps, the other, too.

The first one suggested involves two versions of the green icon. As Jim pointed out on the 17th

We are no longer in a position where names submitted to the temple is more important than to have the ordinances performed. Therefore, while not changing the meaning we are changing the emphasis of the green temple. We need to think of it as "This ordinance is available for temple work to be performed." It does not mean "This ordinance is ready to be requested/reserved or submitted/shared with the temple."

The green icons are suggested as one darker than the other, with one of them standing for one or more ordinances are currently unreserved and the other other standing for all ordinances have been shared with the temple and are available.

The other idea is when you hover over the icon, you will see that (some) ordinance(s) are not currently reserved or they are (all) shared.