On 01/12/2014 16:39, Barbara Levergood wrote: > Another possibility would be to treat the Legacy Tags as one would a > 9-bit binary number. However, to distinguish 10 lines, you would need > to use only 4 Tags. Where T is tagged and u is untagged: > Tags - 1234 > Line 1 - uuuT > Line 2 - uuTu > Line 3 - uuTT > Line 4 - uTuu > Line 5 - uTuT > Line 6 - uTTu > Line 7 - uTTT > Line 8 - Tuuu > Line 9 - TuuT > Line 10 - TuTu
I started to compose a post saying that one could have dozens of Tags by using them in combination, but then I abandoned the idea when I had thought about it a bit more. I realised that it would place severe restrictions on how you could Search. In the example above there are 3 different sets of people with Tag 1 set. If one wanted to search for, say, all people tagged 1 AND a couple of other conditions, one would have to "search the Search List" several times in order to exclude all those who had other Tags set in addition to 1 and fulfilled the other Search criteria. I decided it was probably going to be more trouble than it was worth. I do think much can be done with UserID though. The simplest method would be to use an initial letter for each line as either the whole UserID or the first element of it. I already do this with my database where my UserIDs combine a prefix letter with the RIN. The letters I use are the initials of the surnames of my 4 grandparents, with another set of letters for the later generations where the grandparent lines have merged. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
