From: Jim W. <ji...@li...> - 2005-03-04 01:49:24
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Luke-Jr wrote: >Many times, information on the dates of events may be unknown. In this case, >GRAMPS is unable to sort events by date properly. Is there any interest in a >special date that is defined as being 'before EventList' and 'after >EventList'? Not quite sure how it would be implemented, but it shouldn't need >too much of a complex change... > Several genealogy program solve this problem by having the event chronology sorted by sort dates. The way it works is events are always sorted on the sort dates. When you enter a valid date the sort date field is automatically filled with the real date. An estimated date can be entered directly into the sort date field. The sort date field never prints. Jim |