Please don't include the changes I made in the weekly list of Changes To People You Follow

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George Scott said: The list has an Options button. Could you include an option to exclude the changes I made? (Thanks.)

I work on Family Tree 70 hours a week, so a large portion of the changes which are made to the people I follow are ones which I have made. I don't need to see those.

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Carol Jo Menges said: Are you saying that you don't want to see those changes, yourself--by email, I'm presuming--or that you don't want *anyone* to see those changes that you made in FamilySearch, either by email researchers who have the Person on a starred Follow list? What about on the "Latest Changes" portion of a Person page?

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Paul said: George is asking for an option to filter out the changes he made. It looks as if FamilySearch has listened to similar views, raised on this forum, and will be making this option available.

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Carol Jo Menges said: But specifically, would it be OK with George if others are allowed to see those changes that he made?

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George Scott said: I only want to filter what I see. The filtering options I choose have no effect on what others see. It's fine and actually good for others to see the changes.

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Paul said: See: https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

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George Scott said: Paul, thanks for the link. Before posting my suggestion, I looked to see whether a similar suggestion had been made, but it didn't show up on the list of possible duplicate suggestions.

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Bryce Roper said: I have a question that I would like your feedback on.

FamilySearch has heard the feedback on allowing users to filter out their changes on the new following page. This will be done by adding a button in the options panel.

With the release of the following page we added the option to view changes by the date of the change or to view by person by date.

It is a relatively easy change to allow users to not show their own changes when viewing changes by date. When the changes are viewed by person it adds a lot of complexity to filter out your changes.

My questions is what if we only allow you to filter out your own changes when you choose to view them by date? And we continued to show your changes when you choose view by person.

What are your thoughts?

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Tom Huber said: I think that when the changes are by person, then we need to see our changes as well.
But by date, then we need to be able to filter out our changes.

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Paul said: Yes, I agree with Tom. In the former "Changes" feature we only had the list in date order, I believe, so reverting to "how things were" is fine by me.

Well, with the proviso that sorting on last name in "Following" is brought back, too! It always seemed weird with the old "watch list" feature that the default was a list on first names, but at least we did have the (far more sensible) option to sort on surnames, which is now removed.

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Jeff Wiseman said: See my comments on the longer discussion on this same topic:

https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

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Jeff_Luke said: Thanks for working on this improvement!

i think that when the user selects 'do not show my changes' it should apply regardless of how the list is sorted.

A view that shows all changes to an individual already exists ('Latest changes' when on an individual person's page).

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Jeff Wiseman said: Right! But remember that the old Watch List was static. It didn't really change without you changing it. The view of "Recent Changes" is derived from that. The Watch list itself did not show changes--it only showed the list of records in your watch list. your changes or anyone else's changes are not shown in the Watch list itself, they are shown in the Recent changes view of the watch this.

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Jeff_Luke said: Yeah. If i remember correctly there was the 'watch list', then the 'changes to people i am watching' and a click box to filter out changes that I had made. If you are in the 'changes to people I am watching' view and sorting by person, I still think you should be able to filter out changes that you have made.

Seems the same identifier in the code that removes changes made by the user should work regardless of how the values displayed are sorted or organized. First apply the filter to remove the user's changes, then sort/filter what's left either by date or by name.

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Nancy Ann Scott said: Sounds good to me. I mostly sort by Date anyway. I have not used the Full Name Sort so far.

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Jeff Wiseman said: For a report of CHANGES to make any sense, they have to be in chronological order. To use a primary key based on the name or PID of the person, you still need to use the date of change as the secondary key (that's the one that would be difficult of FS to implement). Again though, that type of view is already available in the change history log for the person. It isn't necessary here (at least, nobody has given any good reasons for it, and we didn't have it before, so I don't know why the question is being asked in the first place)

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Jeff_Luke said: I would like to be able to filter out my own changes even when sorted by name in cases where:

1) I have made a lot of changes to an individual and there may be 1 or 2 changes made by someone else that I am interested in finding without having to carefully scroll through and look for a name other than my own

2) I want to scan for people by name who have been changed and I don't want to be bothered with my own changes which I of course already know about (see example below)

3) sorting by change date is not necessarily practical because there may be recent changes to people that I am not scanning for or already know about and I am looking for an individual person, not just a list of changes by date.If I can do this from a view sorted by name that lets me cut through to an individual NOT modified by me without wading though what can sometimes be a lot of recent activity on other people.

If I only had a handful of people on my following list I would not care much about sorting and filtering. I have almost 600 people on my following list though.

Here's a screen shot. My 1080p monitor will only fit 9 people on the screen at once, Three of them were modified by me and 2 had no changes. So I am left with 4 out of 9 people with changes that I care about and I have to visually sort them rather than having a view where the website does it for me. Scrolling through 500 plus people and visually sorting them myself makes the list too difficult to use to be practical.

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Jeff Wiseman said: What I find ironic is that in the change history log for any person record, you have 54 different filtering settings that you can apply, but not a single one is the name of the person that made the changes (or everyone BUT the person who made the changes).

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Bryce Roper said: This morning we turned on the ability to hide your changes in the following list. You can find this under the options tab. In the coming weeks we will add the ability to sort by name, birth and death date, sex, and ID.

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Tom Huber said: I just used this feature and it is working fine with Chrome on a Windows 10 computer.

Thank you for setting this up.