Individual Documentation Cover Sheet

RootsMagic
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Hi,

For my non-digital archive I would like to print “Individual Documentation Cover Sheets” with only the Name (both Given and Surname) and Birthdate of the selected Individual(s), one individual per page.

The easiest way would to be able to do this from RootsMagic , but can’t find a way to create such “Individual Documentation Cover Sheets”

Could someone please guide me into to the wright direction to achieve this (as I presume / hope that this is possible in RootsMagic)

Thank you

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While you might contrive a RM Custom Report that looks ok when one individual is selected to Generate, I don’t think there’s a page feed control to print a fresh page for each individual if a bunch is selected. If you’re ok with selecting one person at a time, then that is where I would start. That said, you may run into unexpected issues, e.g., people with multiple birth dates, people with no birth date, undesirable format…

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Thanks for the reply.
I had been looking at Custom Reports, but they all seem to be column-based and I was thinking more at something like a Title Page.

Is there no way in RM to create a document from scratch (with the fields needed) ?

Having to select one person at a time isn’t a problem, I won’t need those pages for all individuals.

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Here is a Custom Report:

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The two lines receive the same font setting as though they are the same row, even though when designing it in the editor, they are different ‘rows’. Seemingly inconsistent terminology in the RM user interface.

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Another approach might be a variant of the Individual Summary. Why not have more information on the cover sheet? That it follows a pattern helps set it off as a divider.

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Yes , your first example is exactly what I need !
Could you tell what you used (witch template) to create that ?
What’s the blue line on top of it ? Removeable ?

Of course the Individual summary variant might be an option too, but I prefer not to have any data on the sheet to avoid confusion, as the sheet will remain but the data might evolve.

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Custom Report with no Header, no Footer, Custom report row set to 25pt and designed:

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  • just 1 column, centered.
  • can’t remove the bar (or I’ve yet to find a way)
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Thank you very much !
This really helped me, I’ve got it customized and … without the blue line (I’ve set the List Header to “no color”)

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Just wondering how to choose for a row between the “Custom Report Row” style&font and the “Custom Report ALT Row” style&font

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That’s the inconsistent terminology I mentioned. The “Custom Report ALT Row” seems to apply actually to the alternate person when alternate row shading is turned on. “Row” here seems to mean person, not “row” as in the Custom Report Designer.