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From: "Paul J. Harris" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Select source to view
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:30:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000c01c3a22d$05ada540$69ce89d9@default>


Sally,

I, like you, sometimes use the ID sort to find the last source entered by
clicking on the ID column so it sorts in reverse order and the last source
entered is at the top of the list. If I am looking for a source by the name,
I often use filtering to find it. I guess what I would like to see is to
have the dialog 'remember' how you sorted it last. That way, at the
beginning of a session, if you click on the Name column to achieve that
sort, each subsequent time you open it, it would be sorted by name until you
changed it.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: s.lloyd9 [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:08 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Select source to view


Hi Don,
I normally enter a source and then extract all the information from it,
linking it to Individuals and Events as I go. Having the Source View sort
by source number is useful to me because the source I have just entered is
always at the bottom of the list and easy to locate when I want to link it
to a citation. A way of bringing up say the last ten sources used would be
useful, there are two higher sources I'm using a lot at the moment for
entering stuff from censussss and it's a nuisance having to go all through
the List each time to find them. I think other people have said they would
like something like this too.

Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Zochert" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: [GENBOX] Select source to view


> Hi, Bill,
>
> In order to find a particular source in View Sources, the user must select
> from the list of sources displayed on the "Select Sources for View"
> dialogue. The default order of this list is by source number rather than
> source name. I wish you'd give some consideration to having the default
> order of this list be source name. It's very unlikely a user would scroll
> through this list looking for a specific source number; if you remember
the
> number, you'd just type it in and get the source record. It's much more
> likely a user would be looking for a source by name, and for that reason
it
> would be much easier if the list of sources was already sorted by name. As
> it is, the user has to re-sort the list before looking for the target
> source.
>
> Best,
>
> Don Zochert
>
>
>
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