Journal - How to?

[positivek9 0]

Hi all,

 

Okay, I am trying to print a Journal Report. How can I get it to show:

 

Hoofprint Max, son of Keltick Emmet and Hoofprint Nova?

 

Right now I am getting this:

Hoofprint Max ((?) Keltick's Emmet, #2). Was whelped on , etc.

 

I found a sentence structure but I don't know where to put it??? I tried adding it to the Parents-Bio tag, nothing changed. I do have Marriage tags for each...

 

Help!!

Julie

[Terry Reigel 0]

THe Journal reports are designed to reflect parents by there format, and not require a "parents" statement. You can, however add one if you like.

 

You cannot add a sentence to the relationship tag - it doesn't have any provision for sentences It is just used by the various reports to establish parents and children and doesn't produce any output itself.

 

Some users add a parents statement to the birth tag, generally after the birth date and place, though it could be placed first, so you get:

 

Hoofprint Max, son of Keltick Emmet and Hoofprint Nova, was whelped on , etc.

 

Do that by this sentence in the birth tag:

 

[P] was whelped

 

If you really want it as a separate sentence preceeding the birth sentence you could do that by adding a separate tag before the birth tag, perhaps with a sentence like:

 

[P]

 

If you use the BMDB first option on Journals, this tag would have to be in the Birth Group.

[positivek9 0]

Hi Terry,

 

Thanks for the help, never occurred to me to add to the Birth tag.

 

My other question is:

 

Why do my names print out like this:

 

Hoofprint Max ((?) Keltick's Emmet, #2).

 

on my Journal report?

 

This is the first line in the report, and nothing I do seems to get rid of it.

I don't understand why the (?) appears and only the Father's name appears.

 

Can you tell me what that first line is? Is there a way to correct?

 

Julie

[Terry Reigel 0]

Julie,

 

I'm not sure I have all the parts, but here are some of them.

 

First, a Journal always starts with the name of the person, then items you specify on the Names tab of Options - Identifier (ID# and/or Reference field, or none) and the "Other identifiers" (generation numbers and/or back reference generations). The father's name is coming from the last option - back reference generations. Check what you have selected on the Names tab of Options and I think you can fix most of that.

 

Next, if the first sentence item in the first tag used is not [P], there is a period. Then the text from the first tag appears. But, if the first item in that tag is [P] then there is no period, and the text continues. So, you can control whether or not the name stands alone at the beginning of the text by what is in the first tag sentence.

[positivek9 0]

Hi Terry,

 

I just figured it out! I went in and created a custom format, and ta da!! Now I have the report outputting as I want it. I just kept clicking and unclicking options in the name options, creating a small report each time to see what the changes were.

 

Now I have this:

 

Generation One

 

1. 1 Dixie Leigh (W42798), daughter of Hero of Grettamarc (A794101) and Frieda of Dornwald (W768), was whelped on 1/9/1946 USA.

Color listed as Cream/Black. She was bred by E Kent Oglethorpe.

 

Generation Two

 

2. 2 Hero of Grettamarc (A794101) was bred to Frieda of Dornwald (W768) (see #3).

 

Children of 2 Hero of Grettamarc (A794101) and Frieda of Dornwald (W768) (see #3) are:

1. i. 1 Dixie Leigh (W42798).

 

3. 2 Frieda of Dornwald (W768) was whelped 7/31/1942 in USA. She was bred to Hero of Grettamarc (A794101) (see #2).

Color listed as Black/tan.

 

Have you ever had an issue with printing out a Pedigree with a large number of pages? I have another post on the board about it. Seems a shame TMG can do really neat stuff but you can't get it out!! I may have to try contacting Tech Support.

 

Julie

[Terry Reigel 0]

Juliee,

 

I'm glad to hear that you got the Journal working to your liking.

 

Yes, I saw your post on the Pedigree and I'm afraid I have no clue. I very seldom use that format, and when I do I generally do only a single page chart. Hopefully someone else will have an idea.

[positivek9 0]

Hi Terry,

 

Same thing is happening with the Compressed Pedigree Report.

 

I guess it is just too much data for TMG to handle. I let the Compressed Pedigree run all night on 25 generations, when I got up this morning, it was stuck at 0% generating text. Said there were over a million "people". LOL! I had to ctrl-alt-del to stop TMG. I tried running the reports on my husband's computer with no better results.

 

I'm running TMG on a fairly new computer (bought this year), dual-core with GEForce graphics and Windows XP Pro so I don't think it's that. I have 1 Gig of Ram, maybe I need to bump up the memory?

 

Oh well. guess I'll have to stick with 15 gens until I get a response from Tech Support.

 

Julie