Have you looked at the Detailed Search option? It will, for example, give you a list of people whose Child Status is marked as Twin which you can then Print or save as a CSV or PDF file. And, if you know which fields you have used to enter the other attributes, this feature will also give you what you want, I think.
You can combine the Detailed Search with Tagging and have great flexibility. Connie --- On Mon, 11/15/10, James Cook <jc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > After reading over the tagging > feature in Legacy, it seems that is > intent is to help assemble groups of people for generating > lists > and/or reports. It does mention that the tags could > be named if you > wish, but no examples of why one might want to do so. > I wondering in > what ways others have found this feature useful. > Specifically, I am > wondering if are making use of them as temporary (just long > enough to > get a desired report), or permanent (not sure how this > works, but say > marking anyone with six fingers or toes), or a mix of > both. Just > generally, a run down of the ins and outs of how you use > and managing > these tags. > > > What I really want to do, is mark individuals with custom > attributes. > I thought maybe tagging was the way to go, but I can see > running out > of nine options in a hurry. Perhaps events (or maybe > a singe event > called "Tags" with simply a notes section of comma > delimited tags) > would better serve my purpose. Some examples may > help. I'd like to > track and have available in reports various attributes, > such as twins. > I know in the child settings, there is a dropdown box > where I can set > twins into my Legacy database, but I've not been able to > discover how > to get his information back out in reports or other ways of > sharing > the research. There are other attributes - > Revolutionary War, Civil > War, Mason, Baptist, Methodist, Republican, Politician, etc > - that do > not have entries built into the Legacy UI. I could > create custom > events for each specific attribute, but this seems a bit of > overkill. > I think I've done this with eval copies of other software, > and am > wondering how to achive this in Legacy. > 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
