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    1. Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth, death and burial events when all occur in the same year
    2. Jerry Bryan

    3. > Whilst this discussion has centred around BMD events it is also an issue > for > any event type where there are multiple events on the same date, ie > census, > residence & occupation. Unless explicit sort dates are used these three > events will occur in random order every time they are displayed. Totally correct. The difference is there is no natural ordering for census, residence, and occupation. If you have census 1900, residence 1900, and occupation 1900, then the order will be random unless the user includes a sort date. It's really up to the user to include sort dates if desired. But BMD events do have a natural ordering. Those of us who care about this so much believe that the natural ordering should be used in the case of same sort date events that have a natural ordering. Jerry

    12/27/2012 08:18:09
    1. Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth, death and burial events when all occur in the same year
    2. Randy Clark

    3. I can't stand seeing any more messages on this topic arrive. There must be 50 on a relatively trivial issue. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jerry Bryan <c24m48@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Whilst this discussion has centred around BMD events it is also an issue > > for > > any event type where there are multiple events on the same date, ie > > census, > > residence & occupation. Unless explicit sort dates are used these three > > events will occur in random order every time they are displayed. > > Totally correct. The difference is there is no natural ordering for census, > residence, and occupation. If you have census 1900, residence 1900, and > occupation 1900, then the order will be random unless the user includes a > sort date. It's really up to the user to include sort dates if desired. But > BMD events do have a natural ordering. Those of us who care about this so > much believe that the natural ordering should be used in the case of same > sort date events that have a natural ordering. > > Jerry > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

    12/27/2012 08:19:46