On 11/03/2012 12:07, John Magyari wrote: > Thanks for everyone's ideas. > Some of my Polish time periods use 4 some 5 positions > > I decided to force all 5 location positions into 4. Having same number > of fields helps with sorting. > > Ideally if would be nice to specify Number of locations field MAX. > Then if entered with less fields specify which fields to become null. > ie. MaxPositions = 5, LessPositionOrder if less 2,3if less than MAX > ie For Me for Poland > city, administration, county, state, country (1,2,3,4,5) > If less fields entered enter Nulls > city, county, state, country (Null 1 field - admin) > city, state, country (Null other 2 fields -admin, county) > city, state (Null other 3 fields) > state (Null other 4 fields) > > > I will use 4 fields, and in the process converted all locations with > fewer positions to 4 position system.
Surely the aim should always be to enter *accurate* information and you are not doing that. If you are "forcing" 5 elements into 4, are you implying that, there is a place called "Village Town", when in fact it is a place called "Village" with a place called "Town"? And if you make a 3-element location fit 4 fields, you are presumably adding an extra comma somewhere which inevitably implies that there is a missing element, but in your case there isn't! Because I include complete addresses in the location field, I have anywhere from 1 element (only know the country) to 6 or 7 elements in a location. If I want to see them grouped together I sort them from right to left. It's not a problem. -- 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
