At 10:58 AM 12/26/02 -0500, Jerry Bryan wrote: >This discussion reminded me of an enhancement that I would like to see >someday in Roots Magic. The facility to include or exclude individual >fact types from GEDCOM, from reports, etc. is very powerful. However, the >mechanics of viewing and setting the options is very clumsy. Somebody on >the list (Alfred or Wayne, maybe?) once reported having an empty data base >with all the fact type options set the way they wanted for special >purposes, and into which they would on occasion import GEDCOM. > >I envision an interface which is a matrix, where the rows are the fact >types (so there would be dozens or hundreds of rows) and where the columns >would be actions to be taken for Family Group Sheet, Books, Individual >Summery, Notes/source report, GEDCOM export, and WWW site (six >columns). Each cell of the matrix would either be blank (if the item is >not to be included) or an X (if the item is to be included). A right >click of the cell would open up the dialog to define the sentence >structure for the fact type. You could easily scroll up and down the >matrix to see which fact types were enabled for which operations. > ><snipped stuff> >Jerry Bryan The Genealogical Companion program for Family Origins produces a report that shows this information in a table format. Being a report it is not interactive, but simply eyeballing the report tells you which facts you may want to modify. You can download it at http://www.geocities.com/genealogical_companion/ ======================================== Charles R. Weese, 4012 Pardee Rd., Stow, Ohio 44224 See http://web.raex.com/~cweese/weese/ and http://web.raex.com/~cweese/vance/ for my family info. I maintain the following USGenWeb county sites: Gallia County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgallia/gallia.htm Jackson County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjackso/jackson.htm Vinton County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohvinton/vinton.htm