Maybe a worthwhile option would be for the Occupation Description field to display a drop down list of occupations that you have already added such that as you started to type in the field the list reduced down. This type of functionality is possible in MSAccess forms so should be just as easy to produce in Legacy.
It would allow you to standardise within your own database without affecting the base functionality of Legacy. Alan From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: 10 February 2012 16:36 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] OCCUPATIONS LIST I agree with you on the impracticality of a master list of occupations. I think nearly all the occupations I have came from US census listings, and it's not like those enumerators had a standard list they used. The reporting method you provided is enough for me, should I need to examine my file for particular occupations. I think the only really "standard" one I have is "farmer" ;) --Paula _____ From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, February 10, 2012 4:35:03 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] OCCUPATIONS LIST On 10/02/2012 03:26, Paula Ryburn wrote: > How did you figure out how to do all that?? ;) Started by wondering if a specific Event was one of the fields one could select to display in a print-out of the Name List. When I discovered it was, I went back to work out how to get the right Names in the list - was thinking it might involve tagging, but it didn't, of course. > > I think maybe the OP was wanting a drop-down list of occupations to > select from when entering... I don't know... a new field for the individual? I can think of 2 reasons for that being impractical. For one, there are just far too many occupations. Secondly, what would you do about someone who had 2, 3 or more occupations over their lifetime? -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
