Improve speed when assigning names.

Gordo

When I am assigning names to faces in the people view and the suggestion is incorrect I can right click on the face and go to the “This is…” pop-out list. But, my list is very long, around 100 names. So, a lot of scrolling. At this point I can enter the first letter of the persons name on the keyboard and the selection point will move to the first name with that letter. It still requires a long mouse movement and more scrolling. What I am suggesting is that when the name list pops out and I enter the first letter of the name that the list shrinks to only show names starting with that letter thereby leaving a much shorter list to select from. I know that I could use the “Enter person name…” option but this feels less efficient than the other method. Thanks for your consideration.

Cheers,
Gord

Andrey

Gordo What I am suggesting is that when the name list pops out and I enter the first letter of the name that the list shrinks to only show names starting with that letter thereby leaving a much shorter list to select from.

What you are describing is exactly how “Enter person name” works, so I am a bit confused. Why you don’t use it?

Gordo

Here are some screenshots to demonstrate what I am trying to, maybe poorly, explain.

List of names after opening the “This is…” menu option.

List of names after entering to initial “s”. The list has shifted up but the “s” names are still not visible.

This is what I am proposing should happen after entering a name, “s”, initial.

I hope this makes my idea clearer. Thanks for responding and considering my suggestion.

Gord

Andrey

Gordo Thank you very much for explaining. Though I think this kind of behaivior is something not people expect from drop usual down menu, so I guess it might be confusing for many people. This menu is only suitable for cases you have few people in your library, then it is really easier to do everything without even toughing keyboard, just with the mouse.

However, when there are many people, using keyboard is easier than scrolling down long list, but it that case you can just press F2 and voila, you have your input field, where you can find necessary person with just a few key strokes, and there is also a picture near to the name.

So my point is, the functionaliry you are looking for already exists, you just need to select “Enter person name” isntead of “This is…”.

Hope that makes sense.

E.s.e.

what I do to look for names with X letter, is to leave it pressed and it loops between those letters…and there I look for it, although your option is EXTREMELY INTERESTING TO IMPLEMENT, IT HELPS REDUCE THE VISUAL LOAD.
PS: nates had names like you…alone…then I sorted by LAST NAME - FIRST NAME

Gordo

E.s.e. Thanks for the tip. It works very well to lead the eye to the requested initials\names. Yes, my idea was to reduce the visual load, good terminology, and bring the requested names to where the cursor is positioned. As Andrey points out I can use the F2 keyboard shortcut as well, I didn’t know this existed. I think I use the mouse over keyboard shortcuts for some reason. Now I have 2 ways to speed things up, Thanks.