This is a simple request to make the Find in Diagram function work purely as a proper Find function just like the other find function. I consider in my opinion that the Find in Diagram feature to be a brain dead implementation of a find function. Sorry, but that's my view because it is so useless to me.
If I want to find someone called Mary Axtell in my diagram and I have 50 Mary Axtells in my database I have to select each of the 50 Mary's then select Ctrl-H to see if they are in the diagram. A more logical and intuitive method of finding a Mary Axtell in my diagram is to enter Mary Axtell into a dialog box and for FH to highlight the boxes in the diagram that match one at a time. I therefore only need to search for maybe a couple of Marys rather than 50.
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* To make the Find in Diagram function work properly
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To make the Find in Diagram function work properly
I have added this as
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=334
What I do for this currently, is use the mark using Query option in combination with a query, which prompts for a first and last name and then use it to mark all matching boxes, for Women the query also picks out those whose spouses name matches the surname.
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=334
What I do for this currently, is use the mark using Query option in combination with a query, which prompts for a first and last name and then use it to mark all matching boxes, for Women the query also picks out those whose spouses name matches the surname.
Jane
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To make the Find in Diagram function work properly
Ingenious solution, I'll give it a try. But I still would like the wish list item to stay on the list since the current find in diagram method needs to be made a lot better and a lot more useful for users who would expect it to work.