Ange:
Actually, Dave's suggestion to sort right to left (largest location
to smallest location) solved this. I hadn't noticed that option
before and that's why I was trying to force everything into 4
fields. Now that I changed the sort order to right to left,
everything comes up perfectly regardless of whether it's 4 fields or
5 fields since it starts with country, then state, then county, then
city, then anything else.
I just wasn't sure if there would be some other ramification of
having both 4 and 5 fields in the same country. So far, I haven't found any.
Thanks for your response.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
At 07:59 AM 1/31/2009, you wrote:
Cathy,
The only reason why you might not want to have 5 places for some USA
addresses and 4 for another is sorting.
In the master location list you have the option to sort the list in any
manner you'd like. However, you must have consistency. It will not be
able to easily find for example all of the locations in Iowa if you have the
state name listed in the 3rd place for some locations and in others the
state name is located in the 4th place.
The solution to this is to come up with template for the 9 location fields
and then use commas so that everything stays in its place.
For example
Location name (--cemetery/church/business, etc), street address, township,
county, city, state, country
Crown Hill cemetery, 5746 Broadway St, , , Plainfield, Iowa, USA
In report preferences you can have these extra commas removed so they do not
print.
Ange
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Cathy Vallevieni
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:52 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Need overall help
Dave:
I did it because I was not as astute as you to pay attention that you
can sort right to left. THANK YOU! There have been so many threads
about this topic and I don't think anyone has ever suggested that (or
my brain wasn't working that day if someone did).
I have always entered the country (USA or otherwise) so that is not a
problem for me.
You've made one happy LUGGER and maybe others that have struggled with this.
If I'm overlooking a reason not to have 5 places for some USA
locations and 4 places for other USA locations, I hope someone will
address this.
Thank you.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
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