Jay sent me an e-mail off-list with screenshots. It does seem to confirm that setting direct line ancestors can change a preferred spouse for those ancestors. So the lesson is, set your preferred line first, then make any individual adjustments after. (In typical scenarios such as setting the root person as yourself, there would be no conflict.)
From: Ward Walker Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Preferred Spouse I am having trouble following this, Jay. The Help text is not very clear, but the focus is on preferred child, not spouse. When you set direct line ancestors as preferred, my understanding is that it marks individuals. This allows these individuals to appear bolded in certain situation, like in the name list and in the children list shown in Family view. Are you saying that setting direct line ancestors also marks preferred spouses, overriding any explicitly marked preferred spouse of an individual? Likewise, does it mark preferred parents, overriding any explicitly set preferred parents? (Even if so, if the explicit settings are made after setting the direct line, then they should stick, I would think.) We’ve established that when you navigate from a child to a parent, you get the preferred set of parents for that child, regardless of which spouse is set as the preferred spouse. But that should be the only case. When you navigate from a couple to a child, you should always see that child’s preferred parents and preferred spouse. Same if you navigate to an individual from the name list. Ward From: Jay 1FamilyTree Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Preferred Spouse Wendy, I beg to differ You said "It bears no connection to what relationships are set in your file, as suggested previously. Its purpose is to determine which spouse will appear next to the individual you navigate to." If you use the "Set Preferred line" that WILL change an ancestors spouse to preferred if it wasnt already. And then if you navigate back to someone who is not a descendant of the couple to whom the preferred setting was changed, it will stay that way, until you manually change it back, or until you select a descendant of the original preferred couple and set preferred line. Does that make sense? Jay On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: The Preferred Spouse is set to the individual, the person whose spouses you are looking at. Click on the spouse icon (in Family View that's the single person of the opposite sex at the left-hand end of the icons in the husband and wife boxes) and another window will open up listing the spouses for that person. One of the spouses listed will have an asterisk (*) in the P column - that's the "preferred" spouse for this particular person. By default it is the first spouse attached to that person. If there is more than one spouse, you can choose which spouse will be the "preferred" one - that means that when you navigate to this person (not the spouse), this is the spouse who will appear next to them. It has no bearing on which is the first spouse or how they will appear in reports, that is determined using the Order arrows to sort them as you wish them to appear. It bears no connection to what relationships are set in your file, as suggested previously. Its purpose is to determine which spouse will appear next to the individual you navigate to. I don't know what the problem is that Howland isn't getting the result he should be seeing. Howland, I presume you've closed down Legacy and rebooted your computer since this all started? It's sounding to me like you need to contact Support for this, if you haven't already. Kind Regards, Wendy David Abernathy said the following on 18/08/2013 12:33 p.m.: > > To whom is the setting “Preferred Spouse†set to? > > Thanks, > > David C Abernathy > > Email disclaimers > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > *From:*Kathy Thompson [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, August 17, 2013 5:02 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Preferred Spouse > > Howland: > > Logically, yes - so why it's not working, I'm not sure. > > Hopefully someone more techy and Legacy knowledgable will have or find > the answer for you > > Kathy > > On 18 August 2013 09:26, Howlanddavisii <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Kathy: > > Yes it makes sense. But I am the root person for the direct line so > that should mean that I can make decide which wife is the preferred, > right? > > Howland Davis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathy Thompson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: LegacyUserGroup <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Sent: Sat, Aug 17, 2013 6:56 pm > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Preferred Spouse > > Hi Howland, > I'll try to explain a bit better but using one of my own blended > families as an example > > Under Tools > Set Direct Line as Preferred ...... when I set myself as > the root person for that, then I have my Dad & my Mum correctly > showing for my Dad's marriage. > > However, if I was to use a child of one of my half-siblings from my > dad's first marriage, and set them as the root person for the Tools > > Set Direct Line as Preferred... then when I look at my father's Family > view, it shows his first wife, not his preferred wife, because it is > showing the direct line of the designated person. > > Hope that makes sense. > > Kathy > > On 18 August 2013 00:00, Howlanddavisii <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Kathy: > > It may be doing that; I don't know. 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