Family Historian User Group

When creating a new source it would be nice to have FH automatically disable Automatic Source Citations. I can't see any reason for not doing this and the (agreed, small, but still...) benefit would be that I don't have to do it myself over and over... again when using the DEA button.

I thought it best to post this here and not on the wish list, to see if other users also find this annoying when using DEA's.

I don't find it annoying -- but then I usually run with ASC visible but disabled anyway. However, if you run with it enabled, I can see that it would be annoying.

Yes, for me it's a bit annoying.

My workflow is:
- copy the transcribed certificate data from a website
- create a templated source
- Disable Automatic!!!!
- run my DEA-1 to get the copied data neatly to all fields in the source (including a nicely formatted Text to Source)
- if available get the scan of the certificate
- cleanup the scan (crop etc.) and drag it to the Media tab
- run my DEA-2 to rename the file and file link to the Title of the source
- Enable Automatic
- fill in the facts from the transcribed data
- check with the scan and change and add facts where appropriate

I recognize that my workflow is rather specific and before moving this as a request to the wish list, I wonder what could be against automatically do Disable Automatic when creating a new source. Especially, if you (like me) sometimes forget it's on, and end up with wrong citation links).