Some way to track/know which encounter record was last opened from list in individual record

[ACWadmin1]

What Wildbook should this feature be in? ACW / All

What would you like to see?
Selection indicators of some kind on the list of encounters in the Individual record.

How would this functionality help you?
When opening encounters from the list in the Individual record, there’s no way to keep track of which one was last opened. It causes confusion and repeats and therefore much frustration.

Example ID record with 20 encounters:

Wildbook for Carnivores

[tanyastere]

Seems like this is an issue in all of our tables. I’m going to link a couple of other similar posts so I have them all grouped:

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And I’m going to poke at @brmscheiner to see if we have anything like this planned yet for nextgen, at the latest.
I’m also going to see check level of effort for getting a highlight post-click on the table. It doesn’t seem particularly hard if it opens a new tab, but I’m not gonna swear to it until I talk to someone who does the work.