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From: nick <>
Subject: [FTST] Re: Selecting datasets in FTST
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:50:12 +0000
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Terry,
Thanks for your comments. However this configuration and the data
selection restriction it creates makes no sense to me. There is already
a 'birth-group*' dataset option which can serve the same purpose; the
linking of 'Birth*' and 'Baptism*' datasets to the birth group just
undermines their usefulness.

Now if I want to express BOTH birth and baptism information on a chart,
I have to make a new tag, eg: 'baptised', which is not part of the birth
group. Using John Cardinal's utility, such a change is not hard, BUT it
removes TMG's ability to show age, based on an individual's birth OR
baptism date. Whether birth and baptism tags should be considered by
TMG as part of the birth group or not should be configurable within
TMG.

Now if I want to be able to show both birth and baptismal details AND
have a functioning age display for each person on the screen, I would
have to create an EXTRA 'baptised' tag per person. For several thousand
people this is an enormous amount of extra work that is not made easier
within John Cardinal's utility and it makes the screen display absurd
having two baptismal-type tags per person.

Nick

nick wrote:

Can someone help, please? I have asked this before but
annoyingly I
have accidentally deleted the response over time. I am trying to set up
a ancestor report in which both birth and baptism dates & places are
printed. In the data type options I have thus chosen
1. Birth* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place and
2. Baptism* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place
but for some reason the baptismal information is not showing.

Terry wrote:

By doing this you are specifying the _primary_ birth information, and
also the _primary_ baptism information. Since birth and baptism are in
the same group, only one or the other can be primary for any individual,
and thus only on will show in the chart. They are in the same group
because in some circumstances users do not have birth information and
may chose to use the baptism info as a proxy.

FTST does not allow specification of non-primary tags because there can
be any number of them for any one person, and it would have no way to
"know" which one to print.

Unfortunately, the net result is that you cannot print both the birth
and baptism info for the same person.

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