Ancestor Tree Manager

Person list

An overview of all entered persons can be displayed with Go To Person list.

Sorting

The list can be sorted on up to three columns at the same time. The first chosen column is the primary sort column, indicated by the black arrow (up or down, depending on the sorting direction). The secondary column has a lighter colored arrow, the tertiary column an even lighter arrow.

Sorting can be adjusted in different ways:

• Right-clicking on the column name displays a context menu that allows you to adjust the sorting for that column.
• Left-clicking the column name places sorting on that column and removes sorting from other columns.
  Clicking the left mouse button again changes the sorting direction.
  Shift + left mouse button on a column name that is sorted removes the sorting.
  Shift + left mouse button on a column name that is not sorted adds the column to the sort, unless the maximum number of sorting columns has already been reached.

Show person in the main window

To show a person in the main window there are three possibilities:

• Click with the left mouse button followed by the Enter key
• Double click with the left mouse button
• Via the context menu that is shown when clicking with the right mouse button

Search for persons

There is a function to search the list of persons.

Select the desired search strategy by clicking the relevant bullet and entering the search text. If desired, you can search with wildcards and/or case sensitivity.

When searching by ID number (where wildcards and case sensitivity are obviously irrelevant) a maximum of one match will be found.

Searching by name searches for a person whose full name (including patronymic) matches the specified search text.

The general search function can be used to search in all table columns.

When searching with wildcards, the specified pattern must completely match.
When searching without wildcards, a partial match is sufficient.

The first match is selected in the list of people and with and you can search further until you find the desired one person has been found.

Columns

Which columns are visible can be set via on the toolbar.

The order of the columns can be adjusted by clicking on a column name and dragging it to the desired location.

Filtering of persons

When working with a large database, it can be useful to temporarily shorten the list by filtering the persons. A dialog box appears via on the toolbar:

With the check boxes on the left hand side you can select which items are active.
Next you can enter the filter criteria.
If desired, filtering can be done using wildcards and/or case sensitivity.

When filtering with wildcards, the specified pattern must completely match.
When filtering without wildcards, a partial match is sufficient.

At the bottom of the table you can see whether filtering is active: it will say something like 540/9788 persons.
When you close the program, the filtering is not remembered.

Wildcards

A wildcard allows flexible searches:

• An asterisk (*) is used to represent any string (0, 1 or more) of characters
• The question mark (?) is used to represent exactly 1 random character