report links/hyperlinst/textmarks

justone · Post by **justone** » 13 Dec 2007 09:57

unsure if textmarks is the correct word, nor if it's hypelinks. Not using an english word.

What I', looking for is a way to bring back intelligence to reports (6x3 record card alike ones) so that I could press CTRL on a name (child) for example and end up at the page where the child is the root.

I know how to manually implement that within a word document, but is something like that availbe to be defined from within the report wizzard ?

I'm alreday thinking about spending some of the upcoming days off fiddling with vba if nothing's available.
Point is that I wanted to bring some intelligence to my reports, and manual implementing such things is senseless since the reports need to be rebuilt each time data chances.

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 13 Dec 2007 11:29

I am a bit lost as to why you might want to do this.

The only possible solution might be to include the report with in the ones for an FH CD/Web export, I suspect that links will be created if you include all the people in web output.

justone · Post by **justone** » 17 Dec 2007 07:01

I wanted to create a 'semi intelligent' PDF which allows me to quickly browse to each record/person from any other record/page this record/person is mentioned.

I'm currently looking on how to provide relatives with an easy to be used document so that these could help me collecting data to some persons, and I'm pretty sure that some of them could at best bet open a document and click links, against being able to use search function from within Word or Acrobat.
(ya know, some poeple are that old, the computer was invented in last 10% of their estimated livetime, and as are their computing skills)

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 17 Dec 2007 08:30

I use the report from 'The Complete Genealogy Report' when I need this it does what you are looking for with PDF links and has recently been fine tuned to work really well with FH GEDCOM files, including picking up attached multimedia and to use Living Flags etc.

http://www.tcgr.bufton.org/

justone · Post by **justone** » 26 Dec 2007 17:05

I'll have a look at that one then. Thanks for letting me know.

justone · Post by **justone** » 31 Dec 2007 14:05

Hi Jane, just wanted to come back to you with a small note about your idea to have a look at 'TCGR'.
Bought it straight, after having played with it for an hour. Not only because it nearly did what I was looking for but also because the author did respond within some minutes since I asked if he could implement letting me display the SOUR TITL next to the SOUR links in the report, which he promissed for the next build.

So thanks a lot for pointing out to this great piece of software.

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