To J P Gilliver I will fix that bug. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:02 AM Subject: [BK] oddity with "back" button when adding a person > I'm looking at person 1466 (my current starting point for all until I've > cleared up things relating to him). But I get correspondence about > someone else, so I F3 for them. > Now I'm looking at person 642. > I go to his spouse, person 641. > I go to her father, person 301. > In the Children tab, I click Add Child (i. e. a sibling to 641). > I enter the name, which is one I don't already have, and the gender; now > I'm looking at the page for the new person, 1469. > I click the back "<" button, expecting to go back to the new person's > father, i. e. 301, so I can add the source of the fact of the new person > being a child of his. > However, it takes me back to person 641. > Further back takes me to 642, forward takes me to 1469. > > In general: when I have a sequence of people in the back/forward > history, and I add a new person (via Add child, Add Sibling, or possibly > other ways), and then click "<", (a) it always takes me _two_ places > back in the sequence, (b) the person who was last in the sequence is > removed from it altogether. > > Usually only a minor annoyance, as in most cases the person lost from > the sequence is connected in some way to the person two places back so I > can get back to them easily enough (in this case by clicking Father), > but I thought I'd mention it as I suspect it isn't how it's _supposed_ > to work. > > I do find the back/forward sequence facility extremely useful; others > MMV! > > Regards, John > > (P. S.: I'm delighted that JS has avoided the Microsoft obsession with > Leading Capital Letters On Every Word - for example, the buttons are Add > child and Add sibling, not Add Child and Add Sibling. Just a minor > point, but pleasing anyway!) > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake > when > you make it again. -Franklin P. Jones > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

In message <10A3885F92344BA9B87EDDF3D6A28484@Dell4600>, John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >To J P Gilliver > >I will fix that bug. > >John Steed [] Thanks! No hurry; as long as I know it's there, which obviously I do, I can work round it. Glad to have brought it up though! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Why do they always start off the evening news with "Good evening" when all they do is tell you why it isn't ?