Setting default data in indexing data fields

LegacyUser

David G Clawson said: During entry of data into a indexing batch, set up a default entry for a specific field or fields. Two methods to implement.

1) Add a check box near each field. When clicked on/turned on, whatever is entered into that field will be propagated to all that other image records including sub entry records in that batch. This would allow the indexer to control what is set as default data.

2) During indexing batch configuration, designate a field that the data does not change with a default data. Indexer could change that default data if necessary to match the image data. So most of the time the default setting would be accepted for a specific field and would be left as is but could be changed if needed.

For example a person prefix name field that most of the time is entered as "BLANK" would be set as a default "BLANK". In a death register, if birthdate data is blank, all the image records that batch would be set to "BLANK".

This idea would make entering data a little faster with less typing, and therefore faster.

I have noticed that the surname, when entered into a field is remembered and is suggested for following fields in subsequent image records. This is a great help.

Other ideas that this could be extended to:

Year data fields would be set default with "19" or "18" or other, and all a indexer would need to do is enter that last two digits of the year without erasing the first two digits that's already been entered as default.

For month data fields an indexer would enter a number for example '6', then the system would see that as 'Jun' and put that in that field instead of '6'. The indexing entry already has a default fill in for months. When you start typing 'j' a suggested 'Jan' is displayed. A lot of the image data for dates is in number format. This would allow the indexer to not have to convert the number of the month in to a three letter month designation, and then find that month in the drop down list. Indexer would type in a '2' and 'Feb' would show in that field. But keep the type a letter and a drop down list that appears.

I realize that the Indexing software that the Indexer is interfacing with may not support or be able to implement these ideas. If that is the case these ideas would not be possible without major upgrades to the main indexing interface.

Thanks

LegacyUser

Juli said: Is this what you're asking for?

LegacyUser

Juli said: Note that the buttons to either side of the highlighted one also have related functions: the one on the left is the same as Ctrl-D: copy text from the same field on the previous entry, and the one on the right is the same as Ctrl-Shift-D: copy text from the previous entry into the selected entry.

LegacyUser

David G Clawson said: I do use those buttons for multiple “entry” in the single image record. I change the data entry to “table” instead of “form”. Those buttons work great in that mode.
The bottoms do not work across multiple image records. If, in a batch there is 10 records to index, those buttons do not work to copy data to same field across to next image record. I have tried different browsers, without success.
Data entry would be a little faster, and a little easer with the ability to cooy default data across multiple image records.

LegacyUser

David G Clawson said: Yes. I would like to see those functions/buttons work across multiple image records, not just multiple entries for a single image record.