Middle Clicking on the Source Linker Page

Aaron Thacker

I have a suggestion regarding the Source Linker page. Sometimes, when attaching sources, I learn information not known previously about a person and I would like to visit their profile page to update the missing or incomplete information (i.e. a missing middle name, a more precise birth date, etc.) Currently, we have to left click on their name to bring up their summary card and then middle click (using the scroll wheel button) on their name on the card to bring up their profile in a new tab. It would be easier if we could just middle click on their name directly on the Source Linker page without bringing up the summary card first. The descendancy tree view already has that ability and so does middle clicking on names in other areas of FamilyTree. This is the only place where middle clicking doesn't seem to work properly. Several of the people I help with their family history are older and they struggle with this limitation over and over again. Please fix. Thanks!

Julia Szent-Györgyi

What we really need is for FamilySearch to stop re-inventing the wheel and go back to standard interface norms, where links look and behave like links, and buttons look and behave like buttons. Currently, one cannot tell whether any given click is going to go somewhere or open a popup or what.

Tom Huber

A lot of this goes to the lack of or ignoring any style guide for the site. I've mentioned this before. As far as changes go, they are often not being made for change "sake" but because the entire site is being reworked as sometimes a perfectly-working page is impacted, but the change is necessary to allow other pages to function correctly.

FamilySearch is a very complex site and a number of teams are working on various sections of the site. That is where using a style guide for the site is so very important, but something that -- if it does exist -- is not referenced and used.

glewis

I agree that returning to person page from source linker is cumbersome. Linking a name from source linker to their person page would be so much easier than passing through the source summary and clicking back arrow.