I see your point. I use the numbers to quickly tell me my interest in the individual I am examining. But since the numbers range from zero to three, I think the original intention of the ancestor number was someting like this: 0: No interest 1: Low interest 2: Medium interest 3: High interest
I use those numbers to help me in the search section to compile a list of people for which I have an particular interest in researching at a historical society I can print the list before going there. At first, I thought numbers should range from zero to twenty, or zero to ten, to more accurately indicate my interest, since using this I like it. So basically, I personally use it to indicate my current research interest level of that person. Thank you. Robert On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:46 PM, hwedhlor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would suggest that if the buttons are to indicate the > user's level of interest it would be better if the most > interest were indicated by the number 1, and lesser interest > by higher numbers. My reasoning is that the number display > shows only a single number, so unless they scroll through > the entire list of numbers, the user doesn't know if there > are 3, 10, or 98 numbers available to scale interest level. > If the highest level of interest is "1", then everything > else is less. If the highest level of interest is something > higher the viewer has nothing to compare the displayed > number with, and as the highest level of interest is always > the most important level, the number 1 is the logical choice > for that award in a system that does not display all levels > available, along with a legend explaining the meaning of the > applied numeric values. > > John Zimmerman Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
