In the Citations/Edit Citation screen, why are Footnote, Short footnote, Bibliography, Source ref, Research notes, and Detail comments duplicated on both the left and right sides of the screen? I would suggest having the right side, under the adjustable “Footnote” bar contain just that: the Footnote, Short footnote, Bibliography, (and Source ref). On the left side in the adjustable bar under the Source and Citation columns, which affords more space, contain just the Research notes and Detail comments which typically can contain much more text. I would typically reduce that “Footnote” section to be essentially hidden anyways, giving more room for the Citation fields data entries. And I would want as much as possible of my Research notes (transcribed records) to be visible as I click down through the citations for a given fact.
I think you are referring to the way the screen looks when you have enabled the Slide In Workflow option. I don’t think you see the duplication between right and left without the option enabled.
I agree that there is much wasted space on the screen when the Slide In Workflow option is enabled. I was very excited when the Slide In Workflow was first announced, but I soon became disenchanted with it. For me at least, it doesn’t really solve the problems it was designed to solve. With the notes on the left as you describe, I think there would be room on the right for the two Source Panels and the two Citation panels all to be open at the same time all the time on the right side.
Did you notice that the footnote fields do a live update on the right side as you type into the source and citation panels, but there is no live update of the footnote fields on the left side? I like to see my footnotes come into existence as I type in my source and citation data. The footnote fields on the left hand side do not help with that.
There is much wasted space within the various panels on the right hand side.
The Master Source panel doesn’t have any wasted space, but there needs to be a way to leave it open.
The Master Source, Text, Media, Etc. panel has a lot of wasted space, and there needs to be a way to leave it open. The Source Text, Source Comment, and Source Ref# lines cannot be productively reduced in size. But the Media, Repositories, Source Web Tabs, and Source Used lines could all be clickable boxes within a single line.
The lines for Citation Details cannot be productively reduced in size.
Under Citation Text, Media, Etc. the first three lines of Research Note, Detail Comment, and Detail Ref# cannot be productively reduced in size. But the Media, Citation Web Tabs, and Citation used could all be clickable boxes within a single line.
Under Quality, the three lines could all be clickable boxes within a single line.
The changes I’m suggesting to save space on the right side could be made independently of whether or not the Slide in Workflow is enabled. The changes should be very minor changes to program and they shouldn’t cause any user to have to change any of their own workflows.
The option to enable and disable the Slide In Workflow is totally in the wrong place. It’s in Settings => Program Settings, but it needs to be on the Edit Person Screen right next to the option called Show Relative Events.
Thanks Jerry as some of your comments serve as a tutorial. I didn’t know what the program setting for “Slide in workflow” meant, since I thought everything was slide-in anyways. Struggling somewhat with the new interface, but I see now I have several webinars to catch up on.