Feature request - ad hoc relationships, links in text

RootsMagic
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1

When entering text that refers to another person, it would be nice to create a link to that person.

How I see it working is:

let’s say you are entering information about a death and you want to enter “Murdered by John Smith” where John Smith is another person in the tree.

You would enter "Murdered by "
then type “@joh”
Autocomplete kicks in and you can continue typing or select one from the list

The resultant text will show a link to John Smith with their primary name. If the primary name changes in future it would change in the link text as well.

Benefits of doing this:

  • Saves time for uncommon or unique relationships to events (don’t have to edit fact type etc)
  • Text shows the related person’s name and in the context that makes sense for that unique or uncommon relationship.
2

If the link is supposed to be a hyperlink, where is it supposed to go?

Is it supposed to function not only in the Edit window but also in all outputs (reports, websites…)?

3

To the person record within the application.

It could be used in outputs as well.

4

So when viewing any Fact Note for a person, clicking on this hyperlink (could be more than one?) does what?

  1. Opens this other person’s Edit Person window (max of 3 allowed)? Or
  2. Changes the focus person in the main view (People)?
5

I was thinking change focus person in the main view, how would you do it?

6

I don’t know. It wouldn’t be a trivial change and there would likely be mixed reactions. I suspect it would be easier and more acceptable for it to open the Edit Person window if there are less than 3 in use.

7

Doesn’t seem to me to be a common problem. Seems simple to just type the associated name in the index to bring them up. As for keeping the name insync I would disagree, as the event was that he was slapped by “Will Smith” not “Willard Carrol Smith II”.