Viewing Person after attaching record

SGregerson

I hope this is the correct group to post this suggestion. There was a recent change to the source linker that is very cumbersome. After attaching a record you used to be able to click on view <name of person > and it would return to the person page with the updated attachment. Now when selecting the view it opens a new window. It might be a small thing for some, but this is driving me crazy. Not only do I have to close the window where I attached the record, but I also have to close the original person window. Am I missing an easier way to return to the person with record attached? If not, please consider changing it back

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@SGregerson There is a dedicated group for Source Linker Feedback.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The question is relevant to both the Source Linker group and this Person Page group, because I think they made the change to the Source Linker "view" link concurrently with a change that's supposed to update the hints on profile detail pages more actively. That is, I think the intention is that you should be able to just close the Source Linker tab and end up on the profile that you started from, but with the hints/attachments updated.

(I haven't been paying close attention, but I have noticed that going back to a profile detail page from Source Linker sometimes results in the hint sidebar closing and the hint count decreasing. Sometimes. Other times, I have to hit "refresh".)

I agree that until/unless browsers add an "open in THIS TAB, thankyouverymuch" option to their right-click menus, it would be good to go back to the old default Web-standard behavior of "links open in situ unless you right-click and choose otherwise". As it stands, I hardly dare click things on FS, because the result is so totally random.

SGregerson

Thank you all for the help