Question #2046
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Place: no link button for existing actors
Description
On the detailed view of Places, it is possible to create new Actors (+Person, +Group) but it is not to Link the Place to an existing Actor. Button [Link] is missing.
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 1 year ago
- Related to Feature #2047: Manual: information about actor buttons at place view added
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 1 year ago
- Category set to UI
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Alexander Watzinger
- Tracker changed from Bug to Question
- Subject changed from Place no Link button for existing Actor to Place: no link button for existing actors
I changed the issue from bug to question because in this case it is intended.
Reason for this is because an actor can have many different relations to a place, it could be the residence, location of birth/death, subject of an acquisition and so on.
For convenience there is a "+ Person" and "+ Group" button where the user interface "guesses" that a "has residence" relation is meant but it is still possible to change it in the form and the new actor can be created nevertheless, see e.g. https://demo.openatlas.eu/insert/person/2936.
It would be much more complicate to offer a "link" button because of the many possibilities mentioned above.
But thank you for reporting and the feedback, because this was asked before we will add this to the FAQ section in the manual (#2047).