New Person Page - Missing Standardized Place choices are missing
I do a lot of work in Sweden where farm names are needed in the place field. On the OLD Person Page when the farm and parish that I need are not on your inhouse listing I can usually find a close match - i.e. just the parish without the farm. My place with the farm stays primary and the choice without the farm is behind the scenes.
- On the NEW Person Page I don't have the same choices. It is giving me a list of other farms with the same name, but in different parishes. It is not giving me the option to have the parish name alone in the background.
- An example is Röd, Skredsvik, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden. The OLD Person Page allows me to choose Skredsvik, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden - the parish without the farm. The New Person Page only has other Röd farms in other parishes and does not offer me Skredsvik parish. Because of that, I can't keep my farm and parish in the place field. I've had to switch to the OLD Person Page to keep the place name as it should be. But when the OLD Person Page goes away soon I will not be able to list my places as they should be listed because FT won't allow me to.
- Please fix this problem or just allow Swedish places to be listed as they need to be, even if the place isn't in your database.
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I hope they fix the algorithm that populates the drop-down, because I agree: the new one is awful.
However, in the meantime, it is possible to work around its flaws. When you first enter the place, and discover that the algorithm is giving you pure junk, delete the farm name and choose the correct parish. Then click in the placename field again, go to the beginning of the text, and add the farm name. Then click the reddish text at the top of the drop-down to keep the typed text -- with farm -- for the display, and the previously-selected parish for the background.
It's clunky and annoying, but it can be made to work.
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