Known Issues and current status of the newly released Person Page

lyleblunttoronto1

Here is a summary of feedback for the New Person Page. Not all opinions are listed, just those that are more common.

Too Bright not enough contrast

• We have more plans to improve the High Contrast Mode, (Ideas welcome)
• Working on a dark mode option as well.
• Now Better contrast with Noto Sans Font

Spacing scrolling and content density.

• More tweaks have been made. We have to do this carefully so as to not crowd other language scripts.
• With the updates to Noto Sans Font. Typography was updated to make better use of the surrounding white space.
• Still making more improvements here.

Home and end Keys for standards

• Currently, the Home and End keys navigate the selection list instead of the typed text. Waiting for a fix for this.

Fonts

• Updated to new Noto Sans Font. Text should now be slightly larger and darker.

Memories Type View

• Looking into if a sticky filter would be too confusing.
• Looking into a sort-by-type option that groups similar to the old page.

Edit conclusion popup comes up too small.  

• We believe this behavior comes from using an unsupported browser.
• We'll be adding a warning banner for unsupported browsers.
• Fix for older safari versions being worked on (Fingers Crossed)

Life Sketch (Brief Life History) is on the bottom

• Warnings and notes do not belong in the Brief Life History, please use the new Alert Notes Feature.
• If you just want to see it first, you can change the order in the My Layout Settings under Tools. 

Computer-Generated Brief Life History is wrong

• Commonly this is because the data or standardized value is wrong and needs to be updated.
• The complexity of the data on the person may not be supported. (IE multiple spouses) You can always replace the generated text by choosing the Publish option in the Brief Life History on the details page.

Standardized Map Pin Icon

• No, we are not going to put them back
• These icons were inconsistent between languages and encouraged users to update places that already had a standard. Thank you @Gordon Collett and @Julia Szent-Györgyi for dispelling confusion and giving further improvement ideas.

kathryngz

@lyleblunttoronto1 , many thanks to you and the dedicated UX designers and engineers! Your list gives a small glimpse into the incredible complexity involved with a multi-lingual page that displays a lot of family information.

We appreciate your efforts and also the way you keep us informed.

Kathryn

Lydia Rae McInnis

I use this program to do family history every day.

I don't like that the stories in memories are dark print heavy at the top and then going down faded, instead of about four lines being highlighted to read in the entire square. We are asking that the stories in memories have the old look.

The date needs to flow in as well, when we add new sources from the blue dots by the people's names. When we look at the new source, they're at the bottom without a date, and It takes time to put the date in for the source to be in chronological order.

I like that we can drag and drop photos from our computer screen to memories.

It takes too long when scrolling down the page to see the family members. Could the special events be at the bottom like 'alternate name' and 'places lived'?

'Print' needs to be at the top of the list on the right hand side bar, instead of at the bottom of the list. I never use those top promps, except 'merge by i.d.'

Lydia Rae McInnis

Tools need to be after research icons on the right bar. Notes and latest changes can be last on the right bar.

Facts and Events can be after family members. A line for 'alternate name' can be between the person's details and family name, It takes too long to scroll down and see the family members every time we open a person's page.

Thank - you for your hard work, just not a fan of adjusting to changes.

Gordon Collett

@Lydia Rae McInnis Regarding the order of the main boxes on the person page, you can use the My Layout Setting in the Tools box to rearrange them in what ever order you feel works best for you.

We can't change the order of anything in the right hand column, but I personally like the current order which is unchanged from the previous version except for the addition of the Notes box. I suspect that if you took a wide scale poll, you would find that every possible order of the boxes got about the same number of votes. For example, I'm fine with Print being where it is because I never print anything out from Family Tree. It takes way to much paper and then you can't find anything anyway. I would be happy with Notes being the very first item on the column since that is where you can actually see the new Alert Note and the important information it contains. I like the Latest Changes where it is visible when you first come to the Details page. It is usually the very first thing I look at to see if anyone has made any changes since I was last working on the page. It is always very reassuring to glance over and see my name first on the list of latest changes. I keep the Search box in that column closed to save room because I rarely use it.

We all have our own way of working and our own idea of what the perfect order of the right hand column would be. So it probably is best that they just left all the boxes in the same order we are all used to.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Regarding sources added via Source Linker having no date: that's because Source Linker predates even the now-old person page, which is what introduced the sort-by date. (Source Linker was introduced way back in 2014, while the now-old layout came out in 2018.)