New FamilyTree menu items in Beta

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Adrian Bruce said: Commenting on what is presumably a work in progress in the hope that I might add something useful...

This shows the new FamilyTree dropdown menu -

For info: What was one sub-menu option FamilyTree / Lists is now two FamilyTree / Following and FamilyTree / My Contributions.

This (in production) is what has been replaced (in Beta):


So Issue 1 - what's happened to Recents? - which was always an odd one out as it appears in the sub-menu strip but not in the drop-down, i.e. there isn't a menu item FamilyTree / Recents. (I had a look round but didn't see it)

In the Beta Site, I then went to FamilyTree / My Contributions to see this:

Issue 2 - Life Dates? This has been raised elsewhere but there is some serious work still needed on the item width calculations because it is silly to only show the year of birth followed by a "..." when there is that much white space on that line.
Issue 3 - no visible sub-menu
Recall please that in the current situation (see 2nd image) choosing a Family Tree menu item brings up a menu bar of Tree / Person / Recents / Find / Lists beneath the top menu bar. The new Beta screen when choosing a Family Tree menu item dispenses with that and just shows "My Contributions" (say) This is a seriously disorienting choice - "My Contributions" could be a sub-option of absolutely anything from FamilyTree (which it is) to Indexing and Activities - please reinstate that menu bar (highlighting the current option?)

Issue 4 - Drop down menu covered up
When I choose the Family Tree drop down menu in Beta, I see this:

Oh dear - where's the 4th item gone? Looks to me like the layering has gone awry - I'm sure it'll be fixed soon but just in case it's browser dependent, my Beta site shots are Windows 10 and Chrome.

Which reminds me...
Issue 5 - where's the Beta icon? The Following and My Contributions items on the Family Tree menu don't bring up the FamilySearch Beta icon but the "production" Family Search icon. I'm really hoping I'm still on the Beta Site and it's just an icon issue.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: Yeah it looks like that 4th drop down item is affected by the Name-Date-Change header since the other drop down menus have the same issue.

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Roy F Hunt said: "Tree", "Person: and "Find" are unchanged "Following" replaces "List" and looks like it will work.
The New element "My Contributions" is interesting. It has three elements. Stats, My Changes and Private People.
Stats: -- includes All changes, # of Sources Attached, # of Memories Added and # of People created and gives the totals for each year since 2012. interesting information.
My Changes: Not sure how useful a list of 70,000 changes made over the last eight years is.
Private People Created: This gives you the opportunity to manage entries in your private space. I found there were a lot more than I thought were there should be.

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ATP said: My Changes, even if you edit to correct a spelling error, credits you with a change so agree not sure how useful that is. : )

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Adrian Bruce said: Two points - *any* change that I might make, *must* be recorded as a change. But conversely, it's not clear to me, as well, how I could use that My Changes section - presumably someone has some vision?