I admit I had not thought about it in terms of each country having its own standard so when you click on a particular country, it would be true to its own standard. I'll have to run some tests and see if that works well and get back at ya. Thanks! --Jerry
On 03/11/2012 09:33 PM, Gavin Nicholson wrote: > My question for Jerry is why do you need a standard? For any given country > (or indeed groups of countries) the sorting R to L will work because within > that country all locations will follow a standard. So if you had a list it > might look like: > > England, County, Town, Street > England, Different County, Different Town > England, Different County, Third Town > United States, State, County, Town > United States, Different State, Different County > > So all the related locations, that is, by country, or English county or USA > state are grouped together. What else is required? I ask this from the point > of view of what am I missing? > > I can't see how this would not always work because for any given location you > would always have a location with the precision increasing from R to L. That > is, if something happened in Australia and that is all I knew then the > location is Australia and it would be grouped with all other Australian > locations. If I knew it was in Sydney then automatically I know it is Sydney, > New South Wales, Australia. As long as I always stick with my own "standard" > for any given country then surely the location list R-L sorting will work? > > Regards, > Gavin... > > > > > > 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
