Trying to some up the Location discussion:
As others have mentioned, I think there are two simple changes to Locations that would get over the problems we have been discussing:
1. Reverse the current Location field identification order, so that 1 is the country i.e. the "biggest" subdivision. Then one can have as many smaller subdivisions as necessary, complete with commas for the gaps.
2. Make the Short Location name optionally usable on all reports and similar locations.
Then we can edit the default Geo usage of the four fields to suit our diverse needs, keep the Long name precise, but still sortable, and use the Short name for casual reference in reports.
I doubt that a fundamental rethink is needed. It is pretty close to what we need, I think.
Cheers, Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, commas - good news for the future
Hi Sven-Ove,
Doesn't the existing location Sort screen come close to doing this, or have I missed something?
(Master Location List > Sort...>Country, State, County City or whatever (even if you're not using the fields for the named purpose)).
Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sven-Ove Westberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, commas - good news for the future
Thanks a lot that is good news.
But when you design this great new feature I would appreciate if you also could add a sorting order in the view locations where the top level is first (eg. countires).
They are registred in the normal way detail, .. , .. , no detail .
I would like it look something like.
Sweden,Norrbotten,R�ne�,Avafors Sweden,Norrbotten,R�ne�, Str�msund USA,California,Alameda,Berkeley
If the most detailed entity is missing or has a level more then 4 sort after the entities that are available. eg.
Sweden,Norrbotten,�verlule�,Skatamark Sweden,Norrbotten,�verlule�,Skatamark,Skatamark5
Sven-Ove
At 08:33 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote:Our development team has been following the discussion about the proper data
entry of locations. We agree, and understand that all locations will not fit
into a strict "4-location" format.
I received permission :) to let you all know that in the future we will work
to accommodate location data entry of these other variations. However, we
still suggest to be consistent in whatever method you are using.
This will not come in the immediate near future as we are working hard on other aspects, but it will come....
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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