I agree completely that the more options that are available, and the more
flexibility, the better.
The program presently makes a choice for you - to sort events according to
when they were entered, with an option of clicking to sort by date. I
suggest that the opposite would actually fit most people's working habits
better. Nothing would be dictated to the user any more than it is at
present.
However, that's not really the issue.
What I am actually suggesting is that I would like to be able to choose
event sorting by date, as a global preference, which would apply to my whole
database. I feel as if I am constantly clicking that little button to sort
by date.
I am really enjoying Legacy, and benefiting from the difference in its
approach. When I was using TMG, I wouldn't have thought of some of the handy
little things that are available in Legacy. I actually made the decision to
try Legacy on the recommendation of a professional genealogist and the owner
of a small publishing company.
I miss TMG's witness function, but I do love the clipboard in Legacy. There
are so many times that you don't want to treat an event as a Witness event -
you want it entered as a real event for more than one individual. Legacy
handles that beautifully. It also offers much more flexibility in handling
graphic exhibits - so much that I haven't really caught onto it yet!
Janis Walker Gilmore
Pawleys Island, SC & Seattle, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] individual event screen
I quite agree, Dennis, The way in which I do things should be my choice and
not be dictated by a programmer's or an alleged standards author's idea of
what is "correct".
Ron Ferguson
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From: Dennis Kowallek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] individual event screen
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:38:30 -0400
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:48:55 -0700, "Janis Gilmore"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In TMG, events with a date attached sort in chronological order. Events
that
>do not have a date attached can be sorted either to the top or the
>bottom
of
>the list, at your option.
Good for them. I have events (actually facts) without dates that I want
in the middle. And I have facts that I want in a particular order.
>Why would you want the 1880 census to sort after the 1920 census?
I want to make that decision. I don't want the software to make it for
me.
>I think I must be missing something here. I know that custom sorting is
>sometimes desirable. But couldn't that be an option, rather than the
>default?
Custom sorting should be the default because that is the way it works
today. I would not want the software to start resorting my data "by
default".
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Dennis M. Kowallek
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