Lists and the List Manager

Create and maintain lists of people. Easily add a focus person to a list.

The List Manager is at General | List Manager. The functionality to add an individual to a List is at Individual | List - Add. It is offen convenient to have these two functions beside each other. The following graphic shows them added to their own toolbar Toolbar for List Manager

The button to add an individual to a List is followed by the button for the List Manager.

People in lists are colour coded. Report on the list into Excel, Word or other formats. Automatically add people to a list from a report. The people in your list can be from any GenBase. Export to Gedcom the people in a list. Jump to anyone anywhere from your list.

Adding individuals to a list

At any time you can add the focus person to a list just by clicking on the button List - Add. If there are no lists in the List Manager then the individual will not be added.

The active list

There are two ways to tell which is the active list.

1. Look at the List Manager and note the highlighted list. In the following graphic

List Manager the active list is 'Favourite People'.

2. Hover the mouse over the button List - Add. You will see a hint such as in the following graphic

List Addwhich indicates that the active list is 'Favourite People'.

Output individuals to a list from a report.

Having generated a report you only need to click the Lists button to output all the individuals to a list.

To output all the individuals to a list it is necessary to view all the pages of your report for these reports:

Descendant Plus

 

The following reports do not include spouses in the list:

Narrative Descendants Indented

Narrative Register

Narrative Register (Modified)

 

Output individuals to a list from Query Manager

Please see the topic in Query Manager.

Adding a new list

Adding a new list is a 4 step process. Initially the List Manager will look like this:

List Manager add

Step 1. Click the button More. The List Manager will look like this:

List Manager more

Step 2. Click the button New. You will see the New List dialog:

List Manager new

Step 3. Key the name of the list you want to create. For example, "Favourite People". The filename gets automatically written for you. In most cases you will want to keep the same filename but you can change the name.

Step 4. Click Save.

Changing the contents of a list

You can delete an individual by firstly selecting an individual, then right click with the mouse and choose the menu item Delete. See also the section on Adding individuals to a list.

You can delete the whole list by clicking the button Delete. You can delete every person in the list by clicking the button Empty. To produce a report of the people in the list click the button Report.

If you change any data in the More section (eg. List Note, Color of Male) then to keep those changes click the Save button.

The data in the More section consists of:

o List Note

o Color of Male

o Color of Female

o Color of Unknown

o Advanced.

 

In the Advanced part you can choose which people in GenBases are to be displayed.

Jumping to a person

Firstly select an individual, then right click with the mouse and choose the menu item Jump.

(2009)

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