Re: [Gramps-users] A second query

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

2009/11/15 Howard Close <how...@go...>:
> Again thanks. Have done that. Just had a quick count - I have 39
> individuals called James Close and that doesn't include others like
> myself who have James as a middle name.


Version 3.2 or gramps will have sortable person view, which was one of
the most requested features. This is already in the development branch
but the performance still needs to be improved. Note that the way all
views are done has been rewritten (by Nick and me), so
insert/delete/update will in 3.2 be in milliseconds, with the tradeoff
that building the view the first time is perhaps a second slower.

So I guess in spring 2010 this problem will be solved for you, and you
can sort on birth date, ....
As to the sort order, it is on the constructed name grouping as given
in the preferences (for most people this is "surname, given names" as
already replied here, but you can make that more complicated with
callname, .... . Once that is equal, the order is random as decided by
a b-sort algorithm, so linked to how it is stored in the database
tables.

Benny

> 2009/11/15 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>:
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Howard Close
>> <how...@go...> wrote:
>>> In the People view I am puzzled as to how the individuals are sorted.
>>> Clearly the first sort is alphabetical but thereafter is the sort random?
>>> I may have 20 or 30 people with the same name, it would be nice to
>>> have a secondary sort based on birth date.
>>> At present trying to find an individual in this group can be quite tedious.
>>
>> Wow... that's a lot of same names!
>>
>> That looks like a bug. Can you report that on the item tracker?
>>
>> http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view_all_bug_page.php
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>> Howard
>>
>>> Gra...@li...
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users
>>>
>>
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