RM10 used to set the selected person on the left (primary position), currently sets person to direct descendant of person selected - if they have one - could this be re-instated in RM11 ? or is there an option somewhere for this.
It can get annoying after having it in 10, now I have to keep an eye out as, if looking at people with same name, the one you select may not be the primary (LHS) one - may be son of same name, and with being use to having it on 10, right click primary person (without looking) and Jump to ancestry sends to wrong person obviously.
See previous discussions about this topic here and here. Another discussion that’s closely related but not exactly the same may be found here. There may be other previous discussions, but those are the ones I could find quickly.
The RM7 way of doing it was always to place the selected person in the leftmost position of Pedigree View. Starting with RM8 and continuing through RM11, sometimes the selected person is placed in the leftmost position but more commonly the selected person is placed as the parent of the left most position. I’m not persuaded whether the logic is totally the same throughout RM8 through RM11 because I have never been able to figure out what logic is used.
The RM7 way of doing it meets my needs much better than the RM8 through RM11 way of doing it, so I would like to have the RM7 way of doing to be restored. But what I really want is something better than either one. Namely, I want an option where I can choose either the left most position or the parent of the leftmost position for the position of the highlighted person. The option should be on the Pedigree View screen, just like the option to pick 5 or 6 generations is on the Pedigree View screen itself. And the option should be a one click change. Then RM would not be using any logic or doing any analysis of which way to do it. I would always know which way it was doing it because it would be doing it according to my preference.
I saw the old posts about a similar issue, but assumed that it had been sorted over the years. I started RM with version 9 and moved onto 10. Both of my versions did put the selected person as the primary person, hence my confusion with 11 etc.