Re: [Gramps-users] The Sort Order for Children

[Alex R. <sh...@gr...>]

Tony,

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 18:12 +1300, Tony G wrote:
> Some weeks ago I made a post to the bugs mailing list about two problems
> with the text descendant report. One was sorted out. It was suggested
> that I post the other here for some discussion.
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> The issue is one of the order of children occurring in the descendant
> report. It appears that if there is no birth date the children are
> listed in alphabetical order whereas if there are birth dates, the
> children are listed in birth date order. If the family has some children
> for whom the date is known and some that are not, the report lists the
> no-date children first (in alphabetical order) then the date children,
> leaving an understandable but rather random order.
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> It was suggested that if I could suggest a better algorithm for sorting
> children that can be formally described then it could be programed. I am
> not a programmer so am not sure what can be formally described, but I
> think that it would be helpful if all descendant reports used the same
> algorithm for sorting the children. My preference for an order would be
> that as shown in the family view which is that used for the detailed
> descendant report and the descendant graph. (I wonder if the fact that
> this order already shows in these other reports indicates that the
> algorithm is already in use?)

Thanks for clarifying this. I think it makes all the sense to go
with what's in the Family View in all reports. After all, the Family
View is the one and only place where one can change this.

Could you please file a bug report here:
   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3D25770&atid=3D385137
and add the details: which reports need to be fixed and which
ones already have it right (and in what version of gramps).

Thanks,
Alex

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Alexander Roitman   http://www.gramps-project.org