Show if a record is attached to the selected person from family tree when performing a search
When one starts a search for records from the Person page, the "search results" page shows if the records have already been attached to a person in the tree, which is convenient as it quickly lets the user focus on the records that have yet to be attached.
However sometimes the records have been attached to a duplicate of the person used to start the search (or an unrelated person for that matter), and it's not easy to realize that.
It would be therefore useful if a different icon or marking were used to show records that have been attached to the selected person (the one used to initiate the search) from records that have been attached to another person, making it easy to visually flag potential duplicates of persons or error of assignment of records.
This would be especially useful to notice when unconnected persons have been created from records by users that did not realize that the persons already existed in the tree, maybe under a slightly different name.
Thanks!
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@GabrielArtaud Your suggestion has been passed on to the appropriate department. Thank you for contributing.
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Thank you!
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Sounds like a nice idea. Any ideas of what would make a good icon?
I'm not overly thrilled with the chain links or target with arrow. The check mark isn't bad. Those three were all I could come up with.
Such an icon would need to, of course, revert to the mini-pedigree if the Person From Family Tree header was closed.
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I would find that function very helpful. However, I have no ideas concerning icons. I am not that techy.
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Maybe a combination of the current icon and a checkmark on top of it?
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Current tree icon, but in a color. Bright green?
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A paperclip like in the source linker?
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Combining some of the suggestions: a tree stublet (the current icon) plus a paperclip (like Source Linker)?
(Relying solely on color for an interface element is generally considered to be bad design, so I wouldn't recommend that one.)
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In the source box, a paper clip also means "already attached to this person."
Since that meaning is already established, the additional use to mean the same thing in the search results list should be easy for users to catch on to. I think I like the paper clip.
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I do a lot of visual filtering of Search results, so if there are more icons that task will be much harder. I really, really want to be able to filter on: attached to the identified profile, attached to any profile, attached to more than one profile (a red flag circumstance), hint, nada.
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Is this what people have in mind? Please feel free to thoroughly critique and add further refinements! (If the image ever shows up. Right now it has the blue rectangle and hourglass.)
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This is wonderful to see rapid collaboration between development team and community members! It's very validating and encouraging to see a community suggestion move forward into prototyping.
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Sorry for any confusion. I’m just another user offering an illustration of what I think we users are all taking about here and submitting some wishful thinking to the developers. No prototyping, just photoshopping.
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Oh, I see. Because you are proposing an enhancement, it might be better to post it using "Suggest an Idea" rather than as a "discussion":
That way it can receive up votes and I think will more quickly get to the development team.
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@James F. Carroll This is the Suggest an Idea category! And I did upvote the original idea at the top of this discussion.
If you mean I should not have posted a proposal in the New Person Page group, that is where we have been asked to post ideas for the new Person pages and things there seem to reach the developers fairly efficiently. Since with a little stretching of the imagination the search result list is rather closely connected to the new Person pages, it seemed like a reasonable place to post it.
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@Gordon, Oh! Sorry for missing that. My apologies. Hope your great idea gets more attention and makes it into the hands of decision-makers.
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