* Overall order of events in narrative reports

[Peter Collier]

There doesn't seem to be a a way to specify the overall order of events in a narrative report - do I have that right?

I can see how I can add and remove whichever individual events/attritibutes I wish and amend their order relative to one another, and likewise for the family events/attribues. However, the individual and family event lists are separate from one another in the report options and the overall order - i.e. where the family events will appear among the individual events - loooks like it is baked into the report (?).

I don't think you can generate a custom report ab initio, you have to start from an existing report and customise it, so that scuppers any thoughts of a solution there. As another possible workaround, might it be feasible to perhaps modify the sentence templates for certain events using expressions? For example, modifiy the birth sentence to also include the death fact and then omit the actual death fact from the report, so that an individual's birth and death details would then appear before those of their marriage(s)?

[tatewise]

What is 'baked into the report' is that all facts are presented in chronological order as decided by their Date AND Sort Date.

If you change the Sort Date of any fact it will reposition itself in the Individual Property Box Facts tab and in the Report.
So by setting the Death fact Sort Date just after the Birth Date it will appear in the Report immediately after the Birth.

It is also possible to amend the Sentence Templates such that the Birth fact includes the Death details if they exist, and the Death fact excludes its own details if a Birth fact exists.