I think you need to read the help on this new sorting function to see how carefully this new function was thought out. We knew we had to deal with folks who were particular about their order. And we knew many folks had events entered with no dates.
Let me assume you are not talking about a global sort, but just a sort of the events for a person or a relationship. That sort has some different rules and considerations.
Once you order the events, the only sorting that is done is when you edit the date of an existing event or add an event. And the sort is just to put that event in its place. Legacy does not resort all of the events again.
And, if you do not like where it lands, you can manually order it using the arrow keys... which is a lot less work than you had to do in previous versions where every event had to be manually ordered to the sequence you wanted it.
Now if you do not like the feature, just turn off all of the 2.2 options and you have what you had in L7.5.
For me, this has been wonderful. I had to do some work recently with an L7.5 file and having to sort every event was such a pain....
AND... let me remind people of a trick they can use to make undated events appear in a particular order: Use private dates: [[1925]]. Any date field in Legacy can be populated by a private date. Private dates, like Private notes, use double square brackets around the date you want to hide.
I do this for birth dates all the time when I do not have a good date from a source but I can estimate the date. I make the date private so it does not show in reports or exports (I really do not wish to publish anything with guess for a date because someone might pick it up and think it is real...) but the date then sorts correctly in Index view or Name List. When you are doing a study and lots of people have the same name, this helps organize where in the time line this person is.
When you do it for an event, you are then having the event date sort to your correct place when you do any event sorting.
john.
At 07:24 PM 11/30/2013, Jay 1FamilyTree wrote:
Gene,Â
I'm sorry, but I disagree.Â
I would prefer that when there is a duplicate date, those events should then be sorted alphabetically.Â
I can see your point, as there may be situations where you might want a specific sequenceÂ
Which I think would be a better option than in the order they were entered as maybe the first record wasnt found until after the other ones) Â
I would suggest you make a suggestion for future upgradesÂ
JayÂ
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Gene Young <[email protected]> wrote:
- That does not help. Â If you need to do a sort by date manually it still decides for you that you really meant to screw up your sort order. Â It should not add additional sort criteria to any sort. Â By Date should be by date, no other criteria added.
- On 11/30/2013 12:08 PM, Sherry/Support wrote:
- > You can turn off the automatic sorting. Â In Options > Customize,
- > select your choices in option 2.2
- >
- >
- > Sincerely,
- > Sherry
- > Technical Support
- > Legacy Family Tree
- >
- >
- > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gene Young <[email protected]> wrote:
- >> 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. Â This was and is the desired effect.
- >>
- >> In V8, however, it first sorts by date, as it should. Â Then, unasked, it sorts alphabetically in the case of identical dates. Â If I wanted it to sort alphabetical I would ask it to do so. Â 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
- >
- >
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