"Match other cells with same content" keeps appearing as the default choice

[VojtechDostal]

Describe the bug

When doing reconciliation, I sometimes manually match entries to Wikidata items using "Search for match". I choose the correct match but the match is applied to all entries with the same name because the radio button "Match other cells with same content" is always ticked by default. Even if I change it, next time this button will again be ticked.

Expected behavior
It would be very cool if I could either choose the default button in settings, or OpenRefine could remember my last choice.

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Desktop

• OS: [Windows 10]
• Browser Version: Chrome version 80.0.3987.106
• OpenRefine 3.3 Beta

[adrijshikhar]

@wetneb i would like to work on this. can you please assign it to me?
PS: i have already setup the repo

[adrijshikhar]

@VojtechDostal Can you please add the steps to reproduce the issue. Thanks

[wetneb]

@adrijshikhar you might want to learn about reconciliation in OpenRefine - this issue should be understandable if you are familiar with reconciliation workflows in OpenRefine. For instance:
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation

[VojtechDostal]

@adrijshikhar Thanks for taking up my issue. It would be very helpful if it could be solved. If you want I am happy to assist so that you can easily reproduce the issue. But it should be pretty clear once you try it out for yourself.

[VladimirAlexiev]

@adrijshikhar #2332 shows that "Match other cells with same content" is actually harmful.
So please make "Match this cell only" the first and default choice.

[thadguidry]

@VladimirAlexiev Agree to change the default choice, but curious... we do have Undo/Redo to help here a little or is there some extra problems with Undo in this case ?

[wetneb]

Not sure about the change of default and changing the order of options - this step should not be done lightly as many users might be used to the current UI layout.