| At 07:09 PM 5/9/01 +0200, you wrote: | >Hi there Ira | > | >Had a thought the other day when I was doing a rebuild of my database. There | >is a tck box there that says re-order the events in date order .. which is | >fine. But when you do not have a marriage date, say, it then sends this to | >the bottom of the data on that person. Would it be possible to either have | >as an alternate or instead "Restructue in standard event order"? This way | >you could set up your standard events in the order you would like and Birth | >would come before Baptisms, Marriage before Death ( though for some it may | >be the same event !) etc ... So when you did a restructure all your events | >would be in a logical order. | | Actually the way it really works is that events without dates get | "attached" to the event just preceding it, so that as the unknown date is | sorted it floats with the preceding event. With few events it may be | difficult to see this pattern.| | Ira Sorry Ira, I am not clear about this. When the re-ordering takes place those standard events without a date get attached to the event that used to preceed it before re-ordering ?? Therefore the way the re-ordering takes place would not allow for you to set the order for events, such as Birth, Marriage, Death, Burial?? In my instance say I have the following in my Individuals Standard Events: Birth 1900, Marriage (no date), Death 1950, Burial 1951. After sorting the order ends up Birth 1900, Death 1950, Burial 1951, Marriage (no date). My idea would be to have a set up where you can re-order the entire databases Individual Events in an order you stipulate. ie: Birth, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Burial, so that whatever the dates .. the order will always be logical. Many thanks Hugo

>I am not clear about this. When the re-ordering takes place those standard >events without a date get attached to the event that used to preceed it >before re-ordering ?? Therefore the way the re-ordering takes place would >not allow for you to set the order for events, such as Birth, Marriage, >Death, Burial?? >In my instance say I have the following in my Individuals Standard Events: >Birth 1900, Marriage (no date), Death 1950, Burial 1951. After sorting the >order ends up Birth 1900, Death 1950, Burial 1951, Marriage (no date). >My idea would be to have a set up where you can re-order the entire >databases Individual Events in an order you stipulate. ie: Birth, Baptism, >Confirmation, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Burial, so that whatever the dates >.. the order will always be logical. What you say is happening is not what I expected. I thought that the original sort as you show would cause the marriage event with no date to stay attached to the preceding birth, so that a resort would not change the order - causing the marriage to fall to the end as you say it does. In fact, I was so convinced of this that I checked - and I am right. So something else is going on with your database. If your original order had the marriage right after birth and before death with marriage the only one without a date the order should NOT change. It did not change in my test just now. I understand your suggestion and can add it to my list of ideas (which may never get added - see other message). Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043