following list - need an easier way to find someone I am following - such as a search feature.
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m said: following list - need an easier way to find someone I am following - such as a search feature.
trying to scroll down and locate people listed in alphabetical order by first name is not so easy. you have to keep clicking to get the list to appear is one reason, for example.
trying to scroll down and locate people listed in alphabetical order by first name is not so easy. you have to keep clicking to get the list to appear is one reason, for example.
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Jeff Wiseman said: The scrolling through the list is definitely far more clumsy and slow than it was using the old system.1
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Paul said: I believe this is one of the features from the old "Watch List" that is due to be reintroduced.
It always seemed strange to me that the "default" listing was for first name order (i.e. "last name" was the optional choice). I guess its handy if you think, "Benjamin - now what was his last name?" Easy to find from the first name order list. But surely most users will find the ability to search on last name descending order just as useful, if not more so.
Hopefully I've understood comments made here correctly and this feature WILL be restored quite soon.0 -
Paul said: BTW, m, you CAN already search on a last name - but that will only produce EXACT spellings, so I have to makeTHREE searches for my relatives known as HARROD, and (alternatively) as HEROD and HARWOOD.0
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Tom Huber said: It would be nice to have a following list search be able to use a wildcard or two.0
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m said: If a search feature is introduced, that would be great.0
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Bryce Roper said: Im not sure what you mean by, If a search feature is introduced. There is a search feature in the following list.0
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Amy Archibald said: There is the list of people you are following and the list of changes to those you are following. Currently we can search the list of changes to those we are following. We cannot do anything to the list of people we are following except page through them and they are default sorted by first name. We need to be able to sort through that list. Used to be able to sort that list when it was a watch list.0
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Paul said: Oh, Bryce, now you are worrying me! My understanding was that the simple feature to search on last names was going to be added / reintroduced very soon. Now you don't seem to be seeing any problem. This was a really useful part of the old Watch List, now it is difficult to locate a family if you don't know the exact spelling of their surname, or there were several variants of it.
One of my ancestors was called THUBRON, but his relatives called themselves Thoburn, Thubbron, Thowburn, Thorburn and spelled their names in a variety of other ways - up to 25 I believe I've counted. Without even a wildcard option, how am I supposed to find them all from my Following list? Having an alphabetical sort option would enable me to see them all grouped closely together.
Why ever was this feature removed in the first place? Being able to search only on an exact name spelling (as at present) is not that helpful.0 -
Paul said: Bryce
I just read your comments at https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... and it seems you DO understand the problem after all! In which case, why do you make the comment (above), "Im not sure what you mean by, If a search feature is introduced."
If there had been wider user consultation before dropping what were regarded as "unused" (or underused) features in the switch from "Watch List" to "Following" there would have been no need for all this confusion.
It seems (hopefully) things will soon revert to how they were before, but none of this extra work for the developers should have been necessary. Nothing was "broke"!0 -
Stewart Millar said: A "work-around" option I have found is to use a search feature on the browser (Firefox) that I use . . . . using a character string as exact or as unique as needed to your search . . . in your example - "bron" or "burn" . . . returns a count of occurances and I can skip up or down the ocurances using a next/previous option.0
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Christopher N said:
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Paul said: That only produces names with the exact spelling - no variants.0
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Paul said: Could you be a little more specific of what I need to do, Stewart. I'm not very computer savvy and can't see the exact steps I need to make. Thanks.0
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Paul said: I've had some success at last. I typed h%rod in the box and got both HEROD and HARROD names returned. Okay, I should have tried the % symbol, but how was I to know the * symbol would not work here, when I use it in all my searches on the main familysearch/org search page? Consistency please, FamilySearch.0
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Paul said: The problem is, whilst it does pick up all my THUBRON variants, if I input th%b%n it includes names like ElizabeTH BrowN, ElizabeTH chamBerlaiN, THomas BensoN and THomasine giBsoN in the list as well.
So much for me thinking wildcards would help!0 -
Stewart Millar said: Paul - returning to my "Firefox" workaround . . . previous version of this comment was nonsense! - apologies - Firefox uses the same icon for "search" and "find". . . in Firefox use Cntl+F to pull up the "Find" bar at the bottom of the page.0
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Stewart Millar said: see corrected comment above regarding "Find" in Firefox.0
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Paul said: Thanks.0
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m said: Is a search feature for the following list coming or has a search feature been deemed unnecessary?0
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