Comments on: Link Photos to Events in your Family Tree

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:03:28 +0000

Actually, I LIKE the feature of adding the media to the event. I think people like or dislike it based on their use of the application (if all you are doing is uploading pictures I can see why you don’t think is of value). I have scanned documents as pictures (not stories or such), thus a picture of the marriage license can be added to the marriage event. I do think this is an improvement- I love it in fact!

However, that said, I do agree that the space should be tightened up as others have indicated. Perhaps simply a note on the event in (or a icon can appear if media is added to the event) Overview tab that media has been added to an event and then you can click on the Media tab and the media is sorted by events (with items unattached to an event first).

Wanted to let you know that this new feature is helpful to me.

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:58:07 +0000

To sum up:

The majority objection to the initial revision of the Timeline section was adding an extraneous item between the principal fields (Title, Location, Description).

Moving the “add media” link out was a good thing but the new version in totality does not solve the problem:

–new large space between the 3 principal fields (usually, but not always)

–adding the camera logo between principal fields when a ‘media’ item is added.

Added problems with the new version include:
–the new spacing scheme between the 3 principal fields is irregular, sometimes with a large space, sometimes with a slightly too small space;

–sometimes text from one of the 3 principal fields actually overlaps text from the next field (viewing in Firefox, don’t know about in IE, Safari, etc.)

Examples of the above posted here:

http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ancestry.ancimprovements/1688/mb.ashx

By: Bromaelor

Bromaelor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:39:46 +0000

OK, so that nasty “Add Media” is now out of harm’s way but why is there a big gap left??? Please bring Event, Location, and Description back together!

If this is causing problems with adding silly pictures, even better!! The simple answer is to remove that option altogether.

By: Baker

Baker — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:20:21 +0000

*sigh*
is anything alright?
stop trying to make it “better” please!
i’m crying here.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:05:09 +0000

One more time *sigh*

The link below links to a post with an attached image of what I think most people want the overview page to look like *after* adding a media item. Comments welcomed.

http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.ancestry.ancimprovements/1688/mb.ashx

By: Haydn

Haydn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:39:39 +0000

Re #304, #305. O God I see what you mean. That is awfull. And if you where stupid enough as me to try sticking a few photos in there to see what it looked like you still get the name photo wedged inetween your address line and description line. But still my main major gripe has not been fixed. You still have to do all this multiple clicking to get to edit anything. Sureley in this day and age it would be easy for Ancestry to be able to implement a 1 click edit system.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:36:31 +0000

I can only speak for myself but…

Everything looks fine- until you actually add a media item and then it all falls off a cliff!

I have just one small question-

Did *anybody* at Ancestry bother to look at the overview page after adding a media item??? !!!

After the firestorm caused by the original mess could anyone actually believe that this result would be acceptable??

This is horrid! Almost worse than the original mess.

Everything is scrambled- sources under the image, etc.

*SIGH*

By: Margie

Margie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:05:19 +0000

THANK YOU!! for moving the ‘add media’ over to the right, much better place for it. Makes it alot easier to read what we all have put into our description lines.

By: Candi Evon

Candi Evon — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:47:40 +0000

You are right Jerry. After I saw your post I took a look. When I put in a description it is way out of whack. I didn’t notice at first…..I was too excited. I too hope they can tweak it!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:59 +0000

While an improvement, it may be only a MARGINAL improvement. Now the vertical spacing between the lines (Event, Location, and Description) is IRREGULAR!

Here’s hoping this is just temporary until it can be tweaked.