Chapter 6: The Picklist

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The Picklist is the list of all names in the project. You can access it with a toolbar button or with an option on the Edit > Find a Person menu.

This screen shot shows a basic configuration with accents turned off. Type into the Search field to jump to the first matching name.

(Remember that a higher screen resolution would provide room to display more data at once.)

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Notice that the left-most column reflects an asterisk for primary names.

In this example, "Adgate, Eunice" is a married name record imported from TMG v4.x. The primary name of the same person is "Waterman, Eunice" and naturally appears in a completely different part of the list. Having all of the names in one list makes it easy to find people by any name variation.

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By clicking on the Event List button, the Picklist converts to a different mode which shows a chronological list of all events in the life of the highlighted person.

It is like a little Person View!

You can click on Column Mode to switch back to the previous configuration.

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The Options button offers many ways to customize the Picklist.

In Column Mode, it offers a list of column types which you can select or deselect for viewing (as in this screen shot).

When configured to view the Event List, the Picklist Options window provides a list of all event types from which you can choose for display.

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Here we have sorted the Picklist by given name.

We are also using the Accent feature to highlight the names of people who have more than 3 children. (Being colorful can shed more light on your data and it is also lots of fun!).

Notice that the title bar indicates that there is a total of 5632 names in this project.

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You can also filter the Picklist by a long list of criteria.

Here we've filtered for people named "John" who had any event in Tennessee.

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You can also save Picklist filters to a file so that you can load them again later and switch between filters easily.

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Upon processing the filter, we find that the resulting Picklist shows that 30 people match the specified conditions.

The right-hand side of the screen is updated to show the events of the focus person as we scroll through the list.

(The prior accent conditions are still applied to this filtered Picklist.)

When you double-click on any person, the Picklist is closed and the focus of the other windows is changed to the selected person.