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From: "wim prange" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:21:52 +0200
In-Reply-To: <000001c65cc6$b8e170a0$3ef2e550@dfrethome>


Hi Dave,

Only if you have Access and when you're not afraid to open and make changes
in your database in that program. You can ofcourse use a copy of the
database for this and not your original file when you don't want the changes
to be permanent.

Open the (copy of your) database in Access (File > Open > make sure to set
filetype to "All" to be able to search for a gdb-file)
Open the table "Families". The value for Partners is stored in the field
"Flags". The value for a partner-flag is 1.
This field however also contains the values for the flags Private and
Exclude. That means that you have to increase existing values in that field
with 1, except the familyrecords that are already have the partner-flag set.

Possible values for this field are:
No Flags set0
PARTNERS1
PRIVATE2
PARTNERS + PRIVATE3
EXCLUDE4
EXCL + PARTNERS5
EXCL + PRIVATE6
EXCL + PARTN+ PRIV7

This leads to the following possible replacements:
0 > 1
2 > 3
4 > 5
6 > 7

Gr. Wim




> -----Original Message-----
> From: D Fretwell [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 7:47 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
>
> Hi Wim,
>
> Ok, it's working now - it did help when I set the correct
> parent/family to partners!. Now, is there a simple/quick way
> to change all the families (over
> 1,000) to partners and back again when required? )):
>
> David (UK)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wim prange [mailto:]
> Sent: 09 April 2006 18:14
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
>
> Did you set the correct parentfamily to partners? I tested it
> and it still works for me. Tested it also with setting the
> program- and report-language to English (UK) in case
> something was broken there but it still worked there too.
>
> Wim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D Fretwell [mailto:]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:59 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
> >
> > Hi Wim,
> >
> > Many thanks for the suggestion. Tried changing to Partners on the
> > Family tab, but nothing changed???
> >
> > David (UK)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wim prange [mailto:]
> > Sent: 09 April 2006 17:46
> > To:
> > Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > You can control it with setting the relationship on the
> Family-tab to
> > Partners, than it will print as "Fred Smith, son of Joe
> Smith and Mary
> > Brown"
> >
> > Hopefully, Bill will someday come up with a way that allows
> users to
> > set their own default preference.
> >
> > Gr. Wim
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: D Fretwell [mailto:]
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:17 PM
> > > To:
> > > Subject: [GENBOX] Parents names in Reports
> > >
> > > On descendant reports, when Parents names are selected on
> > the Contents
> > > tab, is there a simple way of changing that part of the
> report that
> > > say's: Fred Smith, son of Joe and Mary
> > > (Brown) Smith to: Fred Smith, son of Joe Smith and Mary Brown?
> > >
> > > It looks confusing and to someone not in to genealogy it's
> > also almost
> > > unreadable. I have been asked by various recipients of
> > reports why I
> > > print out like that, but it appears I have no control over this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can anyone help?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David (UK)
> > >
> > >
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