Hello everyone,
I need your advice on how to effectively use location data associated with people.
I am documenting places that have a connection to people. I added images, an history of the place, place details, and other information.
My problem is knowing how to better associate the information and images of this place with the person so that, for example, I could generate a scrapbook of the person including images of the place or acces to place informations from the people screen
Today, it is possible to associate a place with a fact, but viewing the person’s information does not seem to allow the person’s images to be viewed with the images of the place. Place details are not displayed.
You can tag any image to any item in RM, and by “item” I mean a person, family, event, source, citation, place, place details, name, task, or association. But as far as printing, you are pretty much limited to one photo per person per report for things like narrative reports and family group sheets and individual summaries- namely, one primary photo associated with the person. You can mark photos tagged to any other items as primary, but such marking doesn’t seem to do anything.
Just to be complete, other reports that support the “one primary photo per person” concept are box charts and photo trees.
The only way to print all your media files is via scrapbook reports. A scrapbook report only prints photos and doesn’t include any of the same text you see in narrative reports and family group sheets. You probably can’t produce reports from RM that are exactly what you are thinking about, but you might be able to come pretty close by combining the “one photo per person” reports with the scrapbook reports. You could just print them out separately on paper and combine the paper, you could combine the reports together in RM making a book report. RM’s book reports include chapters, where each chapter can be a standard RM report.
Scrapbooks are funny creatures. There is nothing that prevents you from tagging a picture of a person to a place or from tagging a picture of a place to a person. That might have to be the way you build up your scrapbooks for the kind of report you want to create. Also, just tagging a photo to an item doesn’t inherently include the photo in the scrapbook for that item. You have to mark each item to be included in the scrapbook or not.
As I said, scrapbooks are funny creatures. For example, you might think of tagging a bunch of wedding photos to the Marriage fact for a couple and including them in the scrapbook for the Marriage fact. Then you might think of printing a scrapbook report for that Marriage fact. But you would discover that you can’t print scrapbook reports for Marriage facts. That’s not the way scrapbooks work.
There are only scrapbooks for people, families, sources, and places. But a scrapbook for people includes their individual facts such as Birth and Death A scrapbook for a family is really a scrapbook for a couple and not for their children, and it includes their couple facts such as Marriage and Divorce. A scrapbook for sources in includes its subordinate citations. And a scrapbook for places includes its subordinate Place Details.
You can print a scrapbook report just for an item, or for an item and also for all its subordinate items. But you can’t print a scrapbook report for just one subordinate item. So you can’t print a scrapbook report for a Marriage fact but you can print a scrapbook report for a couple that includes the photos for the Marriage fact. The trouble is, it would include photos from any other couple facts they might have. I think you also need to be able to specify specific subordinate items when printing scrapbook reports.