solving the ordinance color code frustration

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Dorothy Badger said: my frustration is growing by the click with the icon color issue

a missionary told me that there are many people who have a great deal of difficulty distinguishing colors .... red/green, shades of green, etc .... so i can see a need to make a change of some kind

and i am delighted with the additional feature of being able to reserve an ordinance that has already been shared with the temple

but like many, the lime green "can be requested" has become frustrating, as it means more than one thing - as does the turquoise blue

my suggestion i am trying to post is to allow us to "hover" over the lime green, and have it show a message of complete information regarding that ordinance

for example: today i was looking at Bernard Sydnor Davis Sr (LJGW-F64) and when i hover over the E and SP (yellow color), they each provide a thorough explanation which includes "needs more information"

however, Bernard's sister Alva McNeal Davis (LJGW-XJF) shows light green for SP, and says "can be requested" - so i go to the ordinance page to make sure that the SP gets taken care of, and the information is much more complete and shows that it has already been reserved and shared with the temple

I CAN SEE TWO VERY POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THIS WHOLE THING

1 - go back to the color code and the way it was a month ago, and make sure that the users with trouble distinguishing colors know that they can simply “hover” over the ordinance icon (on the person page) and they will have a complete explanation of the current status of that individual ordinance ..... again like it was a month ago

2 - if we must keep the new color code, is there a way to have all the "hovers" (regardless of the color) give complete information, like they did with the previous colors? this would GREATLY reduce the # of clicks and amount of page changing necessary to be able to do a quick overview of a complete family from the father's person page - i do this A LOT

(each ordinance needs its own information, and not the person as a whole is either available or reserved)

i am not trying to complain - this is intended only as positive feedback - i am on FS almost every day, and practical use brings a different view than the programming process

(and i have probably totally confused several, but i think it's a solution to eliminate the frustrations of both color-distinguishing and information searching)

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Tom Huber said: First, there has been a lot of frustration with the now-four icon colors that are used.

Green has and continues to indicate that a person may "reserve" and take the name to the temple to complete their vicarious. It really has not meant anything else, even though a lot of users believed it indicated that additional work was needed.

The green icon appears only for those person's where sufficient information is in the profile to properly identify the person for the purpose of completing their vicarious ordinances.

Jim Greene is deeply involved with the temple system.

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." (This clarified statement was made by Jim Greene on June 17th.)

What he is saying is that we users need to change our thinking with respect to the green icon.

There are several discussions about the color and those suggestions are being considered by the council that makes the decision (led by Elder Bednar). Two other members of the Quorum of the Twelve are also on that council.

One of the suggestions is to provide two shades of green temple icons: one to indicate that at least one of the ordinances is unreserved, and the other to indicate that all of the ordinances are reserved and available for temple work to be performed. I do not know if that suggestion will be considered or not.

The idea of moving the mouse pointer over the temple icon (or ordinance icon) to display a bubble that provides information has also been forwarded.

The other color that has been criticized as having two meanings is the blue icon (now dark blue to eliminate confusion with the hint icon). It means just one thing: the ordinances are not available for reserving and taking to the temple. The person who has the reservation has not shared it with the temple. They (or the temple) may or may not have printed a card for the ordinance(s).

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Roger C. Nilsson said: I like Dorothy Badger's idea of displaying more detailed information when you hover over the green temple icon - that would be quick and easy and, as she points out, is already the case with other colors.