Re: [Gramps-users] Event order

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2008/6/25 Steve <win...@go...>:

> What would suit me would be a order by year
> command for the whole database.
>
> birth
> christ
> census
>    "
>    "
>    "
>    "
> death
> burial
>
> this would separate the majority of events, any in the same year would
> be consecutive and easily dealt with, and of course all children within
> the family would fall into line.


I'm not sure what your use case is for the above.
You want the events with a person/family seen first ordered on type of
event, then on date? As others indicate, the problem is with dates like
1978, and another one like 1978-10-2, which comes first? GRAMPS cannot know,
but the user can put these in the correct order. That is why 'automatic'
ordering is somewhat dangerous, it could destroy the carefull ordering of
inexact/partial dates a user applied to his data.

If you want a quick overview of all events, you can use the filter sidebar
(activate it in the menu). Then filter on a event type, and click on date
column to sort (you can add custom filter to select only events from a
family/person).

Benny

>
>
> by the way I know the square root of nothing about programming so please
> excuse  if this is more difficult than  I imagine.
>
> Steve
> " Aim low avoid disappointment "
>
>
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