To J P Gilliver Thanks for the suggestions. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 7:11 AM Subject: [BK] children/events of other spouses, and (lack of) spouse memory >I go to the edit page for a person (let's say man) with more than one > spouse. It shows the events (marriage, family residence places/dates) > for Spouse 1, or the children by that spouse. > > I go to the drop-down list of spouses, and select other than Spouse 1. > The events/children relating to Spouse 1 disappear, and those relating > to Spouse x appear. > > I click the Spouse x button, to view/edit something specific to that > person. > > I come back (the "<" button) to the man. It reverts to Spouse 1! Could > the >/< "memory" perhaps be amended to remember which Spouse I was > looking at/with? > > Also: it would be nice if, in the children tab, all the children of the > person whose name is in Name could be shown - OK, with the ones by other > than the currently-shown spouse greyed, or something similar. Similarly > for events. > > (I've not infrequently found I've entered a child or event under the > wrong spouse, because I saw they were missing, and didn't realise they > were there but not shown because a different spouse was selected. I > can't be alone in this!) > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, > you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

In message <3081E65C20524A6193B352EF6DDB61CC@Dell4600>, John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >To J P Gilliver > >Thanks for the suggestions. > >John Steed [] You're welcome! Hope they're possible. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf a little bit of me still feels that some southerners think we northerners are issued at birth with doomed kestrels. - Alison Graham, Radio Times, 3-9/11/2007.