* Narrative Reports

[Shiriki]

Hi, yet another question.

I have a number of Baptism (and some burials) entries for children entered as follows within the Address field:
St. George’s Church, Gravesend, Kent
When an Individual Summary report is generated the information is displayed as above.
This also holds true when a Family Group Sheet is generated.
However, when I have generated a Narrative Report – Descendants by Generation (focussed on the children’s father), only part of the Address is displayed against a few of the children (But not all) after the Baptism date as follows:
St. George’s Church
I have double checked that all the data across the respective children is the same by checking Tools-Work with Data Places to ensure that there is only one entry with:
St. George’s Church, Gravesend, Kent
Having explored a bit further, it appears that this anomaly only manifests itself when I generate a Narrative Report focused on the children’s father. If I generate the self-same report when focused on one of the children which has previously only displayed St George’s Church, I get the full entry including the town and County????
This is most perplexing; particularly as in other reports the entry appears in full.
Has anyone else experienced this, or is there something else I’m missing?

Many thanks in advance

Shiriki

[tatewise]

In Narrative Reports all Address fields are omitted by default.

You can change the Report Options to Inc. Event/Attr Addresses but then the text says: The address was:

So what you are seeing is automatic short form Place names after the first occurrence.
If you check carefully I am sure you will find that St. George’s Church, Gravesend, Kent is in the Place fields.
This would appear to be confirmed when you say you used Tools > Work with Data > Places.

Note that you can also use Tools > Work with Data > Addresses.

If you do NOT want the Place names shortened, then in Report Options at the bottom of the Main tab untick Use Short Form for Repeated Place Names

[Shiriki]

Mike

Again thanks for the prompt reply.
You were exactly right. I made an error in my original post. My data was in the Place, not the Address field.
After following your advice re recurring Place names in the options menu following report generation, all is now well and my sanity has been restored.

Cheers

Shiriki

[Jane]

A useful trick with standard sentence templates, if you split your addresses across both the Address and place fields, is to add <{address}, > in the sentence to include the address in the generated sentence.