Gene, I would agree with Paul since it is assumed that we do not know the birth order of children with blank dates, therefore alphabetic is preferred.
IF you know the birth order of one or more of the children with blank birth dates you have a couple options: 1/ Order them manually and DO NOT use the auto-sort feature or 2/ use about, circa or between birth dates to keep them in the correct birth order, then you can still use the auto-sort feature. I prefer option 2 since it tells me that I know the birth order but I still need to find the exact date. Larry Lee [email protected] On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Gene, > > I would agree that V8 is doing it differently, I disagree that it is > wrong. In fact, it sounds to me that the date then alpha sort is superior. > It gives a known result every time. > > The secondary sort based on date entered will gave random results from > person to person depending upon happenstance in the way the data was input. > > Paul Gray > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Young [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: November-30-13 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] event sorting > > I have just noticed some extremely bad behavior in Legacy 8. > > In V7, I would select to sort events by date and the events would first > sort by date then by the order in which events were entered in the event of > duplicate dates. This was and is the desired effect. > > In V8, however, it first sorts by date, as it should. Then, unasked, it > sorts alphabetically in the case of identical dates. If I wanted it to > sort alphabetical I would ask it to do so. This is absolutely not > acceptable behavior. > > I have not found anything in the help files on how to stop this > behavior.Time for a problem report. > -- > > Gene Young > Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada > With Legacy Family Tree > http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > 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 > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3629/6880 - Release Date: 11/30/13 > > > > > 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
