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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Focus terms in list reports
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:48:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030216125639.00b51de0@mail.richard.cleaveland.name>


On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:02:56 -0500, Richard Cleaveland wrote:
>Questions in TMG4: 1. Is there any way to use more terms
>in a focus than the eight provided?

Not directly. But you can probably use some of the terms to set a
flag, then use that flag in a second filter to get what you want.

>2. When I establish a term "any death date day > 1" I get
>some with blank days. How come, and how do I avoid this?

Do those people have more than one death tag? If so, and one of them
meet the filter criteria, the person will appear on the list. If this
is the cause, I suspect specifying the Primary tag rather than any
tag may do what you want.

>3. Is there a possible way to get a pick list of all
>persons with complete birth and death dates (that is, no
>blanks in day, month or year for both birth and death)?
>Reason: Those are the only ones I want age at death
>printed.

I think you can do this by creating a temporary flag with the values
Y, N. Then use a filter:
Any Primary birth tag date day < 1 AND
Any Primary death tag date day < 1

and use the secondary output to change your flag to N.

Then, use a filter with your flag = Y to create the pick list.

I think you have to use the flag because you can't get the people you
want directly -- only those you don't want. I think you can just
filter on the day because I don't think you can enter a regular date
with a day and with the month or year missing.

Terry Reigel



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