Locations were something that I had a good deal of trouble with in terms of being standard, informative, good output etc. I initially had the same problem of duplication in output which show both location and address.
So what I do now is this. All my locations have 4 standard levels, like this Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire, England, UK I have this because I can always fill 4 levels of information starting with town/village, whereas I might not know a parish etc. Where I have further information about an address i.e hospital, church, street etc I add it in the address. Now, the trick I use so that the whole address doesn't repeat is to use private marks to identify text I don't want to print. So my addresses end up looking something like this Name: = [[Hutton Rudby, All Saints Church]] Address = All Saints Church In many reports this will have the effect of combining the location and address to read Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire, England, UK (All Saints Church) Note I only enter as much additional data as I need in the address fields, although I could have put the whole address in and continue to use the [[ symbols to mark text not to print. By putting the name as [[Hutton Rudby, All Saints Church]] all my Hutton Rudby addresses will be in order in the address list, but I can still pick out the specific street church etc. Hope that is of some help. Regards Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Cook Sent: 31 August 2005 22:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Address + location_wishlist ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Crockett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A perennial question on this list is how to combine an address with a >location - for example Hospital Name, Street Address + Location. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer and other patient readers, I think the Legacy developers have this ALMOST right. The question can be broken into two parts; how to handle the Detail component of the Location (in your example, "Hospital Name") and the handling of the details address (in your example, "Street Address"). I have liked the ability to separate the hospital, cemetery, school, etc. from the Location List with the use of the Event Address feature. However, Report Options/Include tab only allows the ability to select addresses "on or off". This has not presented a problem for me as I don't see the need to enter street addresses for events. Besides, if I want to really get complicated, I can enter the hospital or whatever in the Event Address file twice. (Yes, Virginia, it really works!) The real problems are: 1) The address data almost never gets exported/imported to other programs correctly. I haven't really chased this down but I think most of the problem lies with the importing programs. 2) The addresses are not necessarily put on the reports as one might like (I guess, I am speaking for myself here!) a) Individual Report - A marriage address will not be printed. b) Chronology Report - ditto c) Books - If Event Sentence formatting is used addresses come out in an acceptable manner. However, if List Style formatting is set (which happens to be my preference) the address is doubled out thusly: . Graduation: with honors, 29 May 1929, Hayward, Sawyer Co., Wisconsin. Where goes the note?Address: Hayward High School, Middle of Town, Hayward(Hayward High School, Middle of Town, Hayward.) (Doesn't the lack of a space between Notes and Address look nice?!) I have been going back and forth this since "day one". I am currently using the latest build of Legacy in Windows 98SE and the above comments reflect testing done in the last couple of days. Don Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
