New "directory".... a step back in usability

while i understand the desire and need to modernize websites & code, the new "directory" is less useful. its harder to navigate trying to look info up in just a small sidebar attached to the map Functionality. From a user's perspective Split them back out again please!

take this new "directory" and just leave it as the new map, I can't think the last time when i was using the directory going hrm i wonder how this section im looking at looks on a map.

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Many of the custom formatting options are gone such as font size and multiple columns.
This was useful for my tech challenged elderly members.
I now get a 30+ page printout that they can't read.

The new Directory is now very difficult to navigate. I agree with a previous post "the new "directory" is less useful. its harder to navigate trying to look info up in just a small sidebar attached to the map Functionality". I only want the map if needed. Now it crowds out the ward membership which I need.

marketurley wrote:The new Directory is now very difficult to navigate. I agree with a previous post "the new "directory" is less useful. its harder to navigate trying to look info up in just a small sidebar attached to the map Functionality". I only want the map if needed. Now it crowds out the ward membership which I need.

I agree!

I agree that the new directory is difficult to use and the result is NOT satisfactory .... please put back the old directory .... it was much better than than the new attempt of a directory .... the auxiliaries that use the directory will NOT be happy with the new directory.

It is harder to use. It is map centric instead of ward list centric. I can't find the lock visibility option either as a ward clerk. Grr....

Ward clerks can currently only change visibility settings in LDS Tools.

Huge changes -- and the Help/ Release Notes that I went to for help say this "Last Updated: 31 October 2016 at 13:15"

Not only is the new directory less useful for basic functionality, it also removes important functionality used by clerks and executive secretaries. I used to be able to send an email to all members of the High Council, to the Stake Council, to other orgs. With that functionality gone, the only option we have left is to manually look up those addresses each time in case any of the callings have changed since the last time we sent an email.

Is there a way to get multiple e-mail addresses at once, such as when I need to e-mail our High Council or all Bishopric members?

If you have access to Leader and Clerk Resources >> Applications >> Send a Message >> (select members/ orgs/ members within orgs/ whatever)

The church will send out the emails with you/ your calling as sender.

NOTE: household emails don't work -- "The System" requires personal emails from the directories.

aaronj84 wrote:it also removes important functionality used by clerks and executive secretaries. I used to be able to send an email to all members of the High Council, to the Stake Council, to other orgs.

My reading of the tea leaves is that leader support is all migrating to LCR and away from be scattered about in different apps like the directory.

aaronj84 wrote:Not only is the new directory less useful for basic functionality, it also removes important functionality used by clerks and executive secretaries. I used to be able to send an email to all members of the High Council, to the Stake Council, to other orgs. With that functionality gone, the only option we have left is to manually look up those addresses each time in case any of the callings have changed since the last time we sent an email.

bobconlon wrote:Is there a way to get multiple e-mail addresses at once, such as when I need to e-mail our High Council or all Bishopric members?

You both have access to Leader and Clerk Resources. Use the Send a Message function in LCR.

scgallafent wrote:

aaronj84 wrote:Not only is the new directory less useful for basic functionality, it also removes important functionality used by clerks and executive secretaries. I used to be able to send an email to all members of the High Council, to the Stake Council, to other orgs. With that functionality gone, the only option we have left is to manually look up those addresses each time in case any of the callings have changed since the last time we sent an email.

bobconlon wrote:Is there a way to get multiple e-mail addresses at once, such as when I need to e-mail our High Council or all Bishopric members?

You both have access to Leader and Clerk Resources. Use the Send a Message function in LCR.

I thought of the same response but I went and looked and LCR doesn't have an option to email all bishoprics in a stake (unless if gives a different list of options based on calling and I can't see it).

chriswoodut wrote:I thought of the same response but I went and looked and LCR doesn't have an option to email all bishoprics in a stake (unless if gives a different list of options based on calling and I can't see it).

It's only there for stake leaders. We specifically addressed several of these use cases for stake leaders.

The new "directory" (really a way of bludgeoning some poorly-functioning directory functionality into the maps site) is a disaster.

The rather reasonable printing / PDF export options from the old site are replaced by a print function which is useless. It won't print last names, it takes literally 5-10 times as many pages while giving less usable information, it doesn't have decent options about which information to print, etc etc.

There's no way to get directories of e.g. the EQ or RS or any other organization.

The only workaround being floated is "Use LCR." Basically what this means is that no one except the ward council has any quality way of dealing with contacting other members. The rest of us "outsiders" should just give up on taking any initiative at all because as all the functionality is excised from the tools for regular members we become third class citizens.

You should be glad you're not in the UK. Over there, members have to "opt in" to be visible in the directory. As a result, the regular members see a nearly empty directory. It's been that way for several years - all due to "laws of the land".

russellhltn wrote:You should be glad you're not in the UK. Over there, members have to "opt in" to be visible in the directory. As a result, the regular members see a nearly empty directory. It's been that way for several years - all due to "laws of the land".

Ouch.