Sherry, I said in a previous post that expand/contract would not work unless the four field convention is used.
I do not know Albert Park, Victoria, Australia, but it has been said that they largely have only 3 fields, and if that location is the full one, then what would you do - stick some commas in to make it incorrect? Coming to England, what would you do with the correct Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, England, the current location, - historically Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. England? Whatever you do will give an incorrect location, and I will not have errors in my locations, nor look like an ignoramus in reports/webpages. The choice is with the user. I have made mine, accuracy first. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sherry/Support <[email protected]> wrote: >Ron, > >If you don't have the four places or the locations aren't entered >consistently, then the list is not sorted correctly. I can't send a screen >shot to the list, but "Victoria, Australia" is not sorted with the other >countries - it's sorted up by "Scottsdale, AZ" (my locations are in a >jumble in my test file and not always formatted correctly for testing all >sorts of scenarios) and completely out of sequence with the other Australia >locations which have been created with three elements (Albert Park, >Victoria, Australia is one) > >Consistency is important > >Now if I use Expand/Contract Location Parts to shorten Australia to AUS >(for the Short Location Name), then it's not going to find *any* of them >because Legacy's not recognizing Australia as being in the country field. >Adding a comma wherever you're missing one of the governmental >jurisdictions does work. > >Like I said, if you never use that feature, then it's a moot point. I use >it all the time.... > > >Sincerely, >Sherry >Technical Support >Legacy Family Tree > > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Ron Ferguson ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> James, >> >> May I correct one oft repeated fallacy, that is that locations only sort >> correctly if a "standard" format is followed. Wrong, wrong, wrong!!! >> >> Legacy allows locations to be sorted from right to left, ie. >> Country>Cemetery, much more sensible than sorting from left to right. >> >> Provided one's locations are written from lowest to highest they will >> *always* sort correctly if right to left is set - at least for Western >> locations. >> >> >> Ron Ferguson >> > > > >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 > 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
