Make accessing contact details easier

Discussion in Feature Requests Forum started by Henry Buckley, Nov 14, 2011
HB
Henry Buckley
Provide a way to view the contact details of the person currently selected in the family tree view (and maybe also ancestors/descendants/kin views) in a single click.

This could be achieved by adding a clickable 'address book' icon next to the details displayed for the selected person in the family tree view, which when clicked on displays the address book entry for that person.

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Les
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Hi Henry, you can add this into the NOTES of the person in the FAMILY VIEW, by using a HTML LINK code to an address book that you can make in a STORY,

or you can just put the address in the NOTES SECTION

All the best

Les

HB
Henry Buckley
Hi Henry, you can add this into the NOTES of the person in the FAMILY VIEW, by using a HTML LINK code to an address book that you can make in a STORY, or you can just put the address in the NOTES SECTION All the best Les
Hi Les,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I can see that your suggestion would allow me to manually set up an address or address book link for each user, one by one. It would be nice however if just by completing the email or contact section of the user edit form, the link from the family tree item to the corresponding address book entry was automatically displayed (or perhaps the edit form could provide a checkbox to control whether to show such a link).

Having to enter the same address details in the contact and notes section seems like unnecessary duplication. Likewise having to look up the correct address book link for each member of the tree and then create a html tag for it in the notes section feels like work that the system should be doing for me.

One of the killer features of this site for me is the ability to use it as an easily navigable, self-updating repository for extended family contact details. I like the idea of being able to use the family tree view as a navigation tool to get to any member's contact details. I guess in the absence of this feature, we can just bring up the edit form itself from the family tree view to get to the contact details, but a dedicated link that doesn't require you to be in edit mode would be better.

Thanks,

Henry