I seem to recall something about customising events in V4, so here's a nice puzzle to try and solve ...
I've discovered that one bunch of my family were very litigous, and I've got lots of references to court cases they were involed in. The task is to create an event that details whether they were the plaintiff or the defendant, which court they appeared at, and when, who the presiding magistrate was, who represented the plaintiff, who represented the defendant (if anyone),what the case was about, and which way the decision went, which could be for either plaintiff or defendant, with or without costs, 'nonsuited', or adjourned or referred to another court.
The sort of sentence to be generated should look something like:
On at court, individual was the defendant> in the case of v. v. concerning with presiding. The plaintiff was represented by , and the defendant by . The case was awarded for the defendant> with costs of awarded to defendant>.
If names for Mr X or Mr Y are blank, then the relevent part of the sentence should be omitted, and reformatted to make sense, and there needs to be some logic that will allow the plaintiff/defendant order to be transposed as and when necesary.
Or am I asking for too much
[rolleyes]
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Complicated events
You can not currently define additional fields against a fact.
You could simply set up a court case attribute with the result in the value field and then provide a template note (Advanced button) for you to complete with the details.
If you format the sentence/paragraphs carefully you should be able to extract any important elements you need to query on using GetLabelledText().
Obviously for simple things like finding all the cases a specific judge presided over you can simply use a Query by Fact and use contains text on the note.
You could simply set up a court case attribute with the result in the value field and then provide a template note (Advanced button) for you to complete with the details.
If you format the sentence/paragraphs carefully you should be able to extract any important elements you need to query on using GetLabelledText().
Obviously for simple things like finding all the cases a specific judge presided over you can simply use a Query by Fact and use contains text on the note.
Complicated events
Hmm ... seems like a some experimentation is called for.If you format the sentence/paragraphs carefully you should be able to extract any important elements you need to query on using GetLabelledText().