Changes in location are not completely showing up in the Change History Log

LegacyUser

Jeff Wiseman said: I manually changed the standard location assigned to the display location 5 times on the following test profile. Although each change event was recorded, there is absolutely NOTHING (outside of my very intentional Reason statements) that would give a clue of what happened.

I.e., what's wrong with this picture?!?



All the change logs need to be corrected to actually show the changes that were made.

Note that I didn't try this same test on the date field, but I suspect that the same thing will happen with assigned standard date formats.

LegacyUser

FamilySearch Moderator said: I think I understand. You would like the changelog to show the user supplied value as well as the standardized value?

LegacyUser

Jeff Wiseman said: Yes, if the standard value that has been assigned to the Display name in order to "Standardize" it has been changed, then that change needs to be Displayed in the change log.

It's a good thing that the change event shows up in the change log, but it needs to contain information about what actually changed.

One of the problems I've run into myself is that if a Display name is a significant permutation of the appropriate standard name, then when entering the Display value, the most appropriate Standard value will be way down in the list. The default at the top of the list is wrong.

If you assign the correct standard from way down in the list, you think that you are done. The problem occurs when someone comes along and simply adds a very small (or even accidentally) change to the display name, the old incorrect standard name from the top of the list will OVERWRITE the one that was previously assigned. This is very easy to miss.

Since in many cases, differences in standard names assigned to the same display name are representative of TOTALLY different actual locations. One can be right and all the others wrong. If someone changes that on a person I'm watching (and it can EASILY happen by accident), I need that visibility in the change log to know what actually was changed.