Myrna,
No one is asking that sorting Events by date be automatic. Dennis
M. Kowallek and Ron Ferguson have chosen to mischaracterize what we are
requesting. And *then* they say what we are asking for is a poor idea. We
are *only* asking for the *option* to sort by date. We are not attempting
to force anything on anyone, as they state we are doing. They chose to
merely react and not read carefully a long post.
As it is now, Events are not sorted at all. They appear in the
order they were entered. Thus the 1910 census is next to the 1850 census
but not next to the 1900 census if that is how you entered them.
However, if you go to the Individual's Information window, click
on Options, you will see "Sort Events by Date" and "Sort Events by Name."
The problem with this is that you have to manually change the order for
*every* individual. And once you do that, all dated Events you later enter
appear at either the top or the bottom of the list of Events, so you have
to go back and force another resort by date.
All that we want is for the *option* to have Events listed in date
order. That is, if I enter, in *this* order, three censuses for 1900, 1830,
and 1870 as Events, that they will be listed *chronologically* in the
Individual's Information window as follows:
Census 1830
Census 1870
Census 1900
and *not* as follows:
Census 1900
Census 1830
Census 1870
as happens now.
Again, all that we want is the *option* to sort all Events for all
individuals by date in Legacy. We are *not* asking the current default sort
be changed from what it currently is. Dennis M. Kowallek and Ron Ferguson
say that is what we want. It is not. We are only asking for the *option.*
At 08:42 AM 6/25/2006, you wrote:
Well, here is my 2 centavos worth. Please do NOT make it automatic
sorting. Sometimes I place items that do not have dates between items that
do (believing that is when they happened) so sorting by date is fine as
long as it is not automatic!
Myrna
in beautiful rainy Mexico
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