I don't agree that just because you have a space between two commas, it
has to imply that something is missing.  Sure it can be, but for those
of us who want a very organized approach, it just makes sense because it
does allow one to sort by the various divisions, whenever they apply.

If you can truly do that with a right to left sort without regard to how
many divisions are used, can someone provide some concrete examples on a
website or a snippet of your Legacy code off-line or something?  I
really don't mean to be hard-headed on this, but I've so far not seen
sorting work so well without the standard divisions.

Jerry Boor - http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org

On 03/11/2012 08:52 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> 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.Â
>> 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.
>



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