One more issue about the Presumed Dead setting and the fact that the Living?-YES/NO option remains active on those people flagged as presumed dead:
If you make any kind of a text entry in the "Cause of Death", then that person also is presumed dead by Legacy. Makes sense to me so far. But what is different in this case is that a "Cause of Death" entry caused Living?-YES/NO radio buttons to be grayed out, something that fails to get done when similar individuals get presumed dead only because of the number setting in Options. In both cases the individual is marked as dead, yet one has the Living buttons active and the other has them grayed out. My off-line messages with the OP about this lack of graying out those radio buttons is what caused her to question why they were still active, or what function they served. Now that we know they are not a provision for a single-case exception (manual override), then it seems to be a programming error. Bug report already submitted. Brian in CA I think I finally know all about the ins-and-outs of Presumed Dead options and the Advanced Living Tool. Mark me as Presumed Living -----Original Message----- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Living? On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:11:50 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >By the way, the software works as expected Your expectations may be different than others. The software has worked this way as long as I can remember (I've been using it 7 or 8 years) and this is the first time I recall ever hearing the issue raised. So *my* expectation is that it should work the way it does. That being said, I don't have a pony in this race because I am happy with V6 and have no plans to upgrade. > when a person is >>automatically determined to be Living and you manually over-ride that >>to declare them dead. They stay dead, so to speak. Yes. Setting to dead is a one way street. If you have the dead option set to 99 and change it to 120, the people who fall in between won't automatically spring to life. Same goes for Advanced Set Living ... it only marks people dead. It won't mark anybody as living who were already marked dead and no longer meet the criteria. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
