Pathological Pools
Being drawn back to this, just a few more observations...
There are apparently 3 equivalent routes to creating an unrelated individual, all starting out with an "empty" pool number (beginning to learn here).
(1) From the Individual Records window (by right-click in the first (expansion button) column).
(2) From the Individual Records window (or, apparently, any other record-type window), via menu Add > Unrelated Individual (which opens the Focus window).
(3) From "essentially any" starting point, via menu Add > Into a Diagram > New Individual. There are 2 cases:
(a) If that is invoked from the Individual Records window (or, apparently, any other record-type window), then a new (otherwise empty) "Relatives of" diagram is created.
(b) If that is invoked from any Diagram window, then a pop-up dialog asks whether to insert into the current diagram or a new one. If "new", then it behaves as in (a); if "current", then the diagram type does not change.
(4) I haven't checked for any further entry points.
For completeness, there is also the menu to Add > Into a Diagram > New Couple. This has an interesting behaviour described below.
Now...
In
all the above cases and variants (and it is interesting to speculate why), the pool number is always blank. That
persists during/through:
(i) File > Save
(ii) Adding/editing any
Individual events/attributes (via Property window or diagram)
(iii) From the Property window, toolbar blue button "Go to Parent" (the "up" arrow)
That last is where it gets interesting. You can keep adding
one parent (M or F), through the generations, all with no pool number despite adding properties.
What is
sure to trigger a pool update is anything that sets or implies the sex of some individual in the chain. That is bound to happen through the "Please indicate the sex of..." dialog when creating a spouse or adding a child directly, or adding a link to an existing individual as a child.
That "event" seems to be when an appropriate Family record is created - which, of course, is the only way to provide pool continuity through "marriages".
Looking in the Property window "All" tab, all of the links to parent or child (and, of course, spouse) are empty. However any parent's Record ID & name are shown, even in the absence of a Family ID. The same is true for children (where they also show up in the Main tab).
Coming back to "Add > Into a Diagram > New Couple"... this seems to be the only way of introducing a "ready-made" couple (with no Sex defined for either). The Property window "All" shows spouse ID, again without Family ID.
Well, there is probably more to discover, if anyone can be bothered. For me, it's all a bit "pathological". And, thanks to David Potter, I now know a one-click solution (and several other ways) to trigger pool number updates.
It leaves me unenlightened as to how/why the magic Window > Refresh works (maybe that's in Help).
It leaves me puzzled how I managed to get more "relatedness"/complexity in a group without pool number (maybe I mis-remembered, or maybe there really
is a little bug hiding out somewhere).
It leaves me thinking Calico might tighten up "completeness" a bit, e.g.:
Always create a GEDCOM family record in that explicit last example, and the implicit case of creating a parent. That could also apply to creating a child, without the need to specify parent(s) sex. Isn't that a step forward, anyway?
Hope that wasn't too boring!
BTW I am continually irritated that, in a Diagram, there is no "right-click" (context) menu item to add an unrelated individual. Many other operations here
are mouse-orientated).
