General observation regarding navigation.
First I wanted to give a big shout out to the programmers and designers who made the CET's possible. Totally caught me by surprise. I personally think this is a game changer for FamilySearch.
On the a profile page of my CET you are presented with a list of search options (image 1). I know a Find a Grave record exists for this profile, so I want to attach it. I click on Family Search to see if the record pulls up.
On the search results page, the main navigation at the top switches to the FST navigation (image 2). The link to Records is highlighted indicating I'm searching Records. I would think (IMO) the CET navigation set should be here. (image 3)
As it stands now, if I click that Records link, it will take me to a search page that only allows attaching records to the FST, not the CET. (image 4)
Because the Find a Grave record did not pull up in the search results, the navigation at the top (as it currently stands) takes me to a place to search records. I search for the find a Grave record for my profile and find it. It says "Attach to Tree". (image 5) Great, I try to attach it to my tree. However, it only has the option to attach it to the FST (image 6) I try to attach it using the PID of my profile (G176-7LV). Results not found. (image 6)
There are 2 ways I can see this being accomplished.
- Change the navigation on the "Records Results" page to be inline with navigation in the other CET sections. This will remove the link to "Records" all together. This will prevent users from inadvertently searching records first to attach to the CET. Leaving users with the only option to search for records via the "Search Records" section on the profile page. Which will prevent unintentionally switching between FST and CET.
- Allow the "Find a Match in the Family Tree" to pull results from both the CET and FST.
From what I can tell, (and maybe I missed something), there isn't a way to attach a record to a profile, you have to attach a profile to a record. Navigating the site, as it stands, only allows you to attach records to FST profiles. Maybe a 3rd option could be to give the user a choice. (image 7 and image 8)
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April,
I think you have successfully found a real bug. Thank you for your thorough testing. The intent is that when you choose to work in your CET, that the entire system will keep you in the context of your CET until you change to another tree.
Notice that in the search results page of image 5, if you have any little "Possible Tree Matches" person icons at the end of a search result row, those person icons do keep you in context of your CET. The "Attach to Tree" button SHOULD do that as well. We'll alert the eng team that owns this component.
-Robert Kehrer, sr product manager1
