Table of places (L)

The Place Table givesof Places is a structured list of all the places in a genealogy, whichwith columns you can thensort. edit.

Description

The LocationTable Tableof Places lists all the locations in your genealogy, and for each, the corresponding jurisdictions in column according to the format of the locations in your genealogy. For more details on the format of the places, see the Places section.section.

The list can be sorted according to the column of your choice by clicking on the header.

The columns can be moved with the mouse by dragging the header.

The table is surmounted by aA filter bar above the table can be used to reducefilter the list tofor the places you are interested in.

Filter bar

It allows to display onlyfilters the places corresponding to the criteria entered in the filter. ItThis filter includes the following elements.controls:

• The Filter Byby drop-down menu.menu: It allows you to selectselects the jurisdiction column to be affected by the filter. The choiceslist are differentdiffers for each Gedcom file since theythe arelist takenof jurisdictions is read from the formatGedcom offile the places.itself. The choice "*" allows to filterfilters on all columns at the same time.
• The input field allowsis youthe string criteria to enterfilter theplaces. criteriaThe offiltered theplaces filter: these are charactershave to becontain searchedthis string in the jurisdiction of the placesorder to be displayed.
• The Filter button executes the filtering once thea criterionstring has been entered. The Enter key iscan be used toas perform the keyboard action.well.
• The DeleteClear button deletesclears the criterion,input infield order,which in a second step, either to perform a new filtering operation, or to return toremoves the filter and display of all the placesfull savedlist in the Gedcom file.again.
• The total number of different places in the genealogy is displayed to the right of the bar. Please note that the same place used many times in the genealogy would count as one.
• The Export button exports the table to a CSV file.

Usage

Visualization

The table allows you in a very simple way to have a global overview of all your places and to classify, analyze them, and this at your leisureetc. as in a table.

Editing places

Double-clicking on a Table place in any column opens the Place Editor window where you can edit it.

All events that use this place will be modified at once.

If you only want to edit the location of a particular event, use the Cygnus, Aries or Gedcom editors to edit the event in question, and then edit the single location from within the event.

Export places

Use the export button to get a file that can be used in a spreadsheet program.

It is possible to export the locations, in a spreadsheet for example, through the clipboard.

• To do this, click on a location to position yourself on the table.
• Ctrl+A to select all locations
• Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard.
• Do Ctrl+V from a spreadsheet to paste them

 

Customization

There are no customizable elements in the location table.