På Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:18:18 +0100, skrev Jenny M Benson <[email protected]>:
> On 25/01/2012 09:45, Bjørn K Nilssen wrote: >> I'm trying to find where to turn off the long descriptions of >> timelines in reports with chronological views, but I can't find it:( >> Where is it? I want to show who was the king, or prime minister etc, >> but I don't want the entire life story of the king in the >> chronological report. > > Have you looked at the Timeline (View>Timeslines...) concerned to see > whether what you are seeing on your Report *is* actually the Long > Description and not a more detailed Short Description than you want? Yes, they are definitely the long versions. I get both the short version (by default in Dark Orange) in the second column and the long versoin in the third column (black) > I haven't used Timelines much, but it looks as though Long Descriptions > are not included by default, although some of the Short Descriptions are > longish. I think Chronology Reports should only be showing the Short > Descrption. Well, mine shows both - always. > If the Short Description is longer than you want, you could copy the > Short Desc into the Long Desc field and just have the little bit you > want in the Short field. I know that I can workaround it by making new customized timeline files, but with all the settings available in Legacy there surely must be somewhere to set if it should use only short descriptions or both? -- Bjørn K Nilssen - [email protected] - 3D and panoramas 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 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
