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Again, lots of useful feedback.

I have now committed the bug fix for this issue, that does at least get the original functionality back to working as it should. Unfortunately it touches 20 different files, so not one I can provide an interim fix for. Perhaps ver 3.0.1 will have to be released sooner rather than later 🙂

However, if I am interpreting responses so far correctly, there is some interest in the alternative “quick links” solution. So perhaps I should explore that further before releasing a fix to the old feature.

Ron, one question though. In your comments about “tree-favourites’ seem to suggest using a different descriptor for those. It sounds logical, but what might that descriptor be? Bear in mind that a common use for these is to display them in a block on the Home page. I have seen sites with as many of a dozen or more ‘favourites’ in that block. Not my taste, but it is an option.

But it might help if I address your earlier questions:

clandav wrote:

Please clarify, in kiwitrees (3.0.0):

1. How/where should I set up ‘site-wide’ favourites (or should that be ‘tree-wide’ favourites?)
2. How/where should users set up personal user favourites
3. Am I right in assuming that personal user favourites are referred to by the ‘Favourites’ widget and that ‘site-wide’ favourites are referred to by the ‘Favourites’ menu item at top right, next to ‘Login’ (on webtrees theme)?

I shall answer this on the basis of the “fixed” functionality, or how it ‘should’ currently be working.

First – there are definitely no ‘site-wide favourites. They are only tree-specific or user-specific. Of course many sites only have one tree, so tree-specific and site-wide would appear then to be the same thing. But once you have two or more trees the difference is obvious.

1. How/where should I set up ‘tree-wide’ favourites?
The only way to do this is to add a ‘favourites’ block to the Home page. But the block is not necessarily required once the favourites are created. They will appear in the “Favourites” menu list (page top) if you have that activated; or you can add a ‘favourites block” as a component inside an HTML block.

2. How/where should users set up personal user favourites
Two ways:
a) By adding a “favourites widget” to the widget bar (now fixed so any member will see an “add favourite” option in the widget.
b) by clicking on the “Add favourite” option that (now its fixed) appears in the “Favourites” menu item (page top) when viewing an individual, family, source, or repository page. On an individual page, simply clicking that option adds that individual to the users favourites widget.

3. Am I right in assuming that personal user favourites are referred to by the ‘Favourites’ widget and that ‘site-wide’ favourites are referred to by the ‘Favourites’ menu item at top right, next to ‘Login’ [on webtrees theme]?
As you will probably have gathered already, no that is not the case. It is more complicated than that.

a) A favourites block on the Home page will only ever display “tree-specific” favourites.
b) A favourites widget will only ever display the user’s favourites
c) The page-top menu item “Favourites” will display BOTH tree-specific AND the user’s favourites if they have any.

(Note: user favourites (where they are individuals) are also displayed on the Charts menu as a sub-sub menu against the ‘Relationship’ chart option. This allows a quick view of the relationship between the individual you are viewing and any one of your personal favourites. I quite like this feature, but sub-sub menus make the issues we are discussing on the other thread about menus even more complex, and we will almost certainly have to abandon these. Webtrees has already done so.)

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info