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Split view options in Tools menu to see census column titles

Eric Warren
Eric Warren ✭
April 30, 2021 in Suggest an Idea

Hello,

It would be very helpful to add split view options (horizontal and vertical) to the Tools menu in the image viewer. This way a user could select horizontal split view and in the upper view scroll to the census column titles and in the lower view scroll to the row of interest and be able to view the information in context. A vertical split view could be useful to keep the subject's name in view as other census column data is read.

Extra points if the zoom settings between both views can be toggled to be synced or "zoom locked" so as a user zooms in, the column alignment of the images stay in sync.

Yes, I know that you can open the image in another window, but it doesn't address the constant zooming and scrolling which makes the user prone to error during research, in addition to wasting time positioning multiple browser windows (and deal with yet another browser window when we already have like a bazillion open when doing research. 😂)

Here's a crude mockup for an example. 🙂

Screen Shot 2021-04-29 at 10.43.22 PM.png

Thanks,

Eric

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