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From: Chris Sackett <>
Subject: Wish List: Sorting Tags
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:14:44 +0000


I would like to suggest consideration of scrapping the Sort Date method
of putting event tags in the required order in favor of "Move Up" "Move
Down" arrows. These are available on the Citations screen and in various
other places in TMG. I believe their use on the Person View would have
big advantages:

- it would no longer be necessary to remember what the sort date of a
tag is, a significant problem on a busy PV, often resulting in opening
and closing tags just to see what the sort date is;

- it would avoid the problem of an alteration in a sort date having an
effect on tag order, and hence on narratives, of other persons connected
as witnesses;

- it would be possible to move just one tag to the required place
without having to change sort dates of several other tags, which can
sometimes happen;

- there would be no need to open a tag to move it to the required position;

- it would be much quicker.

As I have become more experienced in using TMG, I am finding that I have
to use sort dates on virtually every PV. Often there is a witness tag in
the wrong place, but I cannot change the sort date on that tag as it
would upset another PV, so I end up changing the sort dates of a bunch
of tags to fit correctly around the witness tag. Even on the simplest
PV, I nearly always have to enter a sort date on the death and burial
tags to move them up to appear after the birth and baptism tags in order
to produce narratives in accordance with NEHG Register standards.

Another example of where "Move Up" "Move Down" would really make a
difference is when using non-person PVs such as in Diana Begeman's
Census System. A page of census records often runs to a large number of
records (tags) all with the same date, creating a huge amount of work in
entering sort dates if one wants to order them alphabetically or
whatever. With "Move Up" "Move Down", this would be a snap.

Regards,
Chris Sackett

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