6 replies to this topic

[Vyger]

Working with ever growing Media Galleries is challenging to say the least and one leading program makes this a little easier by allowing the user to categorize media items and create their own custom categories.

In short I would like to see such a facility added to Rootsmagic to help users manage those ever growing Media collections. The screen shot below is borrowed from another program and I have added a few categories of my own to try and better illustrate it's possibilities, after all media collections need a good filing system.

[MVS]

This type of feature, along with other improvements to the whole media handling capability of RootsMagic would get my vote. MVS,

[TomH]

Vyger is to be commended for envisioning usability improvements and explaining them with graphics and examples from the real world.

[zhangrau]

This suggestion looks like it would be effectively similar to the method I currently use. I have a main "media" folder with a bunch of subfolders (38 on the first level, over 40 on the second level) for categorizing my images and documents. I don't often create new folders, anymore. I don't think that adding categorization to the Media Gallery would reduce my keystrokes, so I'm not sure I would start using the Media Gallery. Right now, I attach all images and documents by selecting [Media] [Add new media] [Disk]. I now have over 9,800 multimedia links, many of which LOST their captions when I upgraded from RM4 to RM5 to RM6, because a decision by RM was made to allow only a singe caption per image/document, rather than multiple captions (which were previously allowed). I'm gradually finding and replacing those lost captions, and not looking forward to being forced to adopt another re-organization.

[Vyger]

Vyger is to be commended for envisioning usability improvements and explaining them with graphics and examples from the real world.

A picture is worth a thousand words

[Renee Zamora]

Confirming enhancement request and comments are in our tracking system.

[Vyger]

I'm gradually finding and replacing those lost captions, and not looking forward to being forced to adopt another re-organization.

I'm sure TomH could suggest some help on working through those lost captions and I don't see why this change would affect your or others ways of working. I also have a folder structure but this categorization change would compliment any existing filing system making it stronger.