Event Type - Linking People

lisa
@lisa
9 years ago
126 posts
Hello! Is there a way to link a person as in the "Marriage" or "Residence" or "Census" Event Type when I create an event called "Death of Spouse" and be able to link the spouse who died? Gosh, did that even make sense? :-) Thanks!
updated by @lisa: 06/07/15 06:05:27PM
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
lisa:
Hello! Is there a way to link a person as in the "Marriage" or "Residence" or "Census" Event Type when I create an event called "Death of Spouse" and be able to link the spouse who died? Gosh, did that even make sense? :-) Thanks!

You can create the new event, but you'd need to manually "link" it - right now that type of linking has to be handled by the backend, so is limited to specific events. Down the road I could look into "generalizing" it so it can be configured, but I hesitate a bit to make it more complicated than is needed. In this case it would just be 1 extra event that needs to be added, so hopefully that is not too much of a pain.


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lisa
@lisa
9 years ago
126 posts
LOL! Oh, I understand. I was not really asking you to do something as much as I was asking if there was a way to do this? I would link the person manually, but the spot for that is "grayed" out. Example: I created an event called "Death of Spouse, " but the area to link a person is not available.
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
lisa:
LOL! Oh, I understand. I was not really asking you to do something as much as I was asking if there was a way to do this? I would link the person manually, but the spot for that is "grayed" out. Example: I created an event called "Death of Spouse, " but the area to link a person is not available.

Yeah it will be grayed out since it's not supported for custom events - instead just put the spouse's name as the first line in the event details box and will basically look the same.

Let me know if that helps.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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lisa
@lisa
9 years ago
126 posts
It's exactly what I have been doing! Thanks! I didn't know if there was something I could create or do differently! Thanks, Brian! Loving this program!
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
lisa:
It's exactly what I have been doing! Thanks! I didn't know if there was something I could create or do differently! Thanks, Brian! Loving this program!

Sounds like you're doing it right, so you should be good :)

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

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