Making a fact always appear last in reports

retiredbri · Post by **retiredbri** » 27 Oct 2007 21:46

I hava a custom event 'Data Available' that just has attributes (a list of locations for my supporting certificates and paper records) that I want to always be the last item in reports. FH places it before Death (I assume this is because FH sees death as the final event)
I can manualy place 'Data Available' last but any re-order activity causes it to jump before Death.

There is nothing I can see in Chapter 6 that allows a fact to be designated as 'always being last in the list'.

Any Ideas?

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tommy166 · Post by **tommy166** » 28 Oct 2007 00:42

A simple work round would be to give it a date of 2010 or similar; then it would always come last in the list. You would probably want to alter the sentence for the event using the work with fact sets dialogue so that date didn't appear in the report.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 28 Oct 2007 08:56

I don't know of a way, out of interest why don't you use sources for this, I would have thought that is what sources are for?

retiredbri · Post by **retiredbri** » 28 Oct 2007 12:24

Hi Tommy

A simple work round would be to give it a date of 2010 or similar; then it would always come last in the list. You would probably want to alter the sentence for the event using the work with fact sets dialogue so that date didn't appear in the report.

It would work but I was hoping not to add a ficticious date if there was another way of 'forcing it' to always be last.

Hi again Jane
'Data Available' is the basis of a method (given in talks by me and about to be published) to organise all your supporting documents (certificate, census printouts, photos etc.

It works with people who use manual methods as well as computer based Family Tree programmes.

'..... why don't you use sources for this, I would have thought that is what sources are for?'

I've always used sources to tell anyone how/where they can get back to the data included in my tree - a census RG reference, a parish record [Church, date and entry number], a GRO Vol/page reference etc.
Supporting Data, in my case are the actual copies that I have obtained. With my method, the physical items are referenced and separate to the 'source' information.

Hope this helps.

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