I’ve also fixed, on my local copy, the sort order for the reigns list, and added “preceded by” and “succeeded by” info, which is the Next/Previous Reign button you asked for in effect. I’ll do a few more fixes then upload the changes. I think we need some sort of update functionality so you can get your copies up to date, but that may take a little fiddling.

“Lone sovereigns: not sure why we need this. All awards are given by both sovereigns. In the Lochac Principality days, many were given by a King and Queen who were asleep in bed half a world away when court was on. Will discuss further.”
People remember the event by the fact that “only Yolande was there”. It’s part of what distinguishes one William Marshall (or Rowany yule or whatever) from annother. I don’t object to the award being listed as granted by both, maybe if some text on the event page mentions that only one attended, I’ll stop getting fix me messages, and people can use those identifying feature of only one sovereign present. P1 I guess.

Did I make clear that the webpage text doesn’t have to be edited in gratian (although that appeals), I was just making a punt that whatever you’ve got isn’t easy to use if you haven’t let me loose on it instantly. And while I probably can manage to edit whatever templated goobeldygook you have, with a bit of help, there’s no guarantees about the next canon, and you don’t want to be seperating the job really do you? (or doing it yourself for ever)

These look like good suggestions. Let me triage them slightly, off the top of my head:

* Search results indicator: trickier than it sounds, since it really only does a “find next” rather than a “find all and jump to first result”. I could make it calculate it in the background, though, so call it Priority 2, Difficulty 2 (where each figure is out of 5, with 5 being highest priority and difficulty).

* Event date search: I thought it already did this! The search functionality is modular, so this is dead easy. P3 D1.

* Event merge: will need to look into this.

* Normalised spelling: can be done as a one-off fix followed by an automated feature when you save a new person record. P4 D2.

* Branch status improvements: will require a little fiddling, and may not be as flexible as that, but I can improve on the status quo. P2 D3.

* Lone sovereigns: not sure why we need this. All awards are given by both sovereigns. In the Lochac Principality days, many were given by a King and Queen who were asleep in bed half a world away when court was on. Will discuss further.

* Heraldic registration info: is already on the backburner as a feature, with tables and some support in Gratian (that’s why it downloads the O&A, see?) but got bumped from the list long ago. P1 D4.

* Member list within Gratian: doable as part of a wider “summary screen” feature. P1 D4.

* Notes field: should be a general feature, not just for person records but for everything. Can throw in the email/website/blog option while I’m at it but leave it disabled on the actual site, just for now. P3 D1.

* Previous/next reign: d’oh! Should have been in there years ago! P4 D1.

* Fix reign sorting: I noticed that too. Clearly a bug, the way it is currently. P4 D1.

* Static pages editing: will need to give it some thought, but it should be relatively simple in fact because of how I do the templating on the site. P4 D2.

Fixing some show-stopper bugs would also be a good thing…