I tried event sorting for the first time today. Created settings with a template in the "Change" nav section
Then went to a specific couple where I new a few events were out of order (compare to what I wanted)
I opened the events view of the husband and clicked on "Sort Events". Nothing changed, more on that later
Just to make sure, I tried going to the Change panel and do the sort from there.
I made sure "Sort Events for…" was selected to "Source couple"
I set an events template of my preferences and "Use Event Template"
Selected "When Finished" mark no one
Clicked on "Sort"
This was the result
Screen Shot 2020-12-02 at 23.34.43.png
Much to my dismay the feedback (at the bottom) indicated my whole database had undergone event sorting! It would be exhaustive to check all 7568 people if it was what I wanted, let alone that I did not have them marked to do so.
So, do I misunderstand how this is supposed to be used for a single couple? If the answer is no, this is a very problematic bug. Luckily for me I am not all that trusting, so I had made a backup just before. Phew...
Now to the "apparently nothing changed". I figured out why nothing happened. You can see the template I used above. Below is the event panel before sorting:
Screen Shot 2020-12-02 at 23.42.46.png
My first explanation for nothing happening is that Reunion does not know what to do with the events that have an "about" date. Those events do have a date (although be it somewhat qualified), including a year, as opposed to being empty. I expected them to be sorted according to that date without qualifier. This may actually still have happened because when I changed the birth date to "abt 7 dec 1733" and sorted again it was placed before christening.
Then I discovered that if I play death before burial and sort, it gets moved to after burial. So now I am thinking that equivalent dates with "abt" in one of them always have the "abt" one sorted later. That does not seem a wise decision.
Somehow I had expected the event template's order to also be used to resolve the order of two events otherwise sorting equally. So may be this is not a bug, but I would put in a strong request to implement that.
Overall I would suggest: For purposes of sorting
Treat fields without a year as "empty"
Treat fields with a year but an abt qualifier as well as if the qualifier was not there
Treat fields with a year, but a "ca" qualifier is if it was not there (one could argue that ca is less precise than abt, so I could live with these being treated as empty)
Now sort by date
Now take any events that are not empty (no date with year, but something in place or memo or both), with types in the order they appear in the template (this is assuming template use is selected)
Place them after the last event of the type before it in the template
If there are multiple of these with the same event type, preserve their original order
Then went to a specific couple where I new a few events were out of order (compare to what I wanted)
I opened the events view of the husband and clicked on "Sort Events". Nothing changed, more on that later
Just to make sure, I tried going to the Change panel and do the sort from there.
I made sure "Sort Events for…" was selected to "Source couple"
I set an events template of my preferences and "Use Event Template"
Selected "When Finished" mark no one
Clicked on "Sort"
This was the result
Screen Shot 2020-12-02 at 23.34.43.png
Much to my dismay the feedback (at the bottom) indicated my whole database had undergone event sorting! It would be exhaustive to check all 7568 people if it was what I wanted, let alone that I did not have them marked to do so.
So, do I misunderstand how this is supposed to be used for a single couple? If the answer is no, this is a very problematic bug. Luckily for me I am not all that trusting, so I had made a backup just before. Phew...
Now to the "apparently nothing changed". I figured out why nothing happened. You can see the template I used above. Below is the event panel before sorting:
Screen Shot 2020-12-02 at 23.42.46.png
My first explanation for nothing happening is that Reunion does not know what to do with the events that have an "about" date. Those events do have a date (although be it somewhat qualified), including a year, as opposed to being empty. I expected them to be sorted according to that date without qualifier. This may actually still have happened because when I changed the birth date to "abt 7 dec 1733" and sorted again it was placed before christening.
Then I discovered that if I play death before burial and sort, it gets moved to after burial. So now I am thinking that equivalent dates with "abt" in one of them always have the "abt" one sorted later. That does not seem a wise decision.
Somehow I had expected the event template's order to also be used to resolve the order of two events otherwise sorting equally. So may be this is not a bug, but I would put in a strong request to implement that.
Overall I would suggest: For purposes of sorting
Treat fields without a year as "empty"
Treat fields with a year but an abt qualifier as well as if the qualifier was not there
Treat fields with a year, but a "ca" qualifier is if it was not there (one could argue that ca is less precise than abt, so I could live with these being treated as empty)
Now sort by date
Now take any events that are not empty (no date with year, but something in place or memo or both), with types in the order they appear in the template (this is assuming template use is selected)
Place them after the last event of the type before it in the template
If there are multiple of these with the same event type, preserve their original order
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