Enhancement request when linking a citation and/or tagging media to more than one event for a person

[kevinm]

This feature request is to enhance the workflow when linking a citation and/or tagging media to more than one event for a person. This could be a census record (and image) being added to a Birth event as well as a Census event or a death certificate being added to a Death and Birth event. There are many similar examples.

Granted, this request falls into the irritant category and though I am sure it has been mentioned since the UI changes introduced with RM8, I couldn’t find it as a stand-alone request.

Details:
RM provides the ability to add a Citation Link from the Citation Used field in the Edit Citation pane of the Edit Person window. A similar dialog popup appears when adding a Media Tag from the Other Tags field in the Edit Media pane of the Edit Person window. When the user selects “Event” from the “Link to” or “Tag Type” drop down list in either of these windows, it would be useful if the Person field would be pre-filled with the current Edit Person (since the current person is already known) rather than the current behavior of having to search for the person that you are already editing. The same behavior could occur when the Person or Name options are selected from the drop down list. The ability to select a different person should be kept.

Associated User Interface:

[thejerrybryan]

Here, here!

There are very few cases where it wouldn’t be useful to have the current person at least pre-highlighted when entering a list of people. And highlighting a person doesn’t check their box, so no harm is done by having them pre-highlighted. And a great deal of advantage is gained by having them pre-highlighted.

[rzamor1]

It’s using the same screen when adding a Media Tag from the Media, Sources, Places, and Task pages. It can’t always assume you are on a specific person.

[thejerrybryan]

That’s well understood. But there are already cases where it does assume you are on a specific person and where it does highlight that specific person. I just think it should make that assumption whenever possible, and there are cases where it is possible to make that assumption and it doesn’t. And I repeat that there is no harm that comes from making the assumption because the highlighted person is just highlighted and is not yet marked.

[kevync1985]

subtle small distinction - but can matter in workflows

Kevin