Persuading FTV (beta) to display children in a particular order
Gramps v6.0.1 with FTV v0.1.162 on Windows 10 and 11
I realise this is non-standard so I doubt there is a workaround…
I have created two dummy children in a family. Once called ‘seven children’, the other called ‘two children’. I’ve done that because that’s more or less all I know about these people. In between these two dummy children there is a real child. The Gramps IDs of the three are not sequential but that of ‘seven children’ is less than that of the real child, which in turn is less than that of ‘two children’ The birth dates of ‘seven’ and ‘two’ are spans, from 1796 to 1810 and from 1816 to 1819 respectively. The birth date of the real child is a regular date in 1814.
If I view this family in FTV then the two dummy children are both shown to the left of the real child but in the (Topola) Interactive Family Tree they appear either side of the real child. They also appear either side of the real child in the Life Line Descendant chart and are listed before and after the real child in the Pedigree chart.
I presume they appear in the ‘correct’ order in views that sort children on Gramps ID but it looks like FTV relies on birth dates but doesn’t pull out the start date of spans/ranges so it lists them out of order.
This in not a high priority for me but @ztlxltl is addressing this somewhere on your ‘to do’ list?
Thanks