There are a lot of subtleties related to “Re-ordering” in Gramps. These are the items that came to mind quickly. What other implications should be covered ? This posting has been converted to a “Wiki”. It is open to editing. [Stock reorder.png] Re-order entry in the Gramps Glossary To change th…

I just realized that re-ordering data is lost with a backup and restore cycle. Is that something that could be resolved?

[image] emyoulation: Is that something that could be resolved? Maybe Gramps dateobject could be expanded to support “Sort Dates” like used TMG & Family Historian 7 as just mentioned by me should I raise a feature request?

Yes, a feature request seems appropriate. Thanks @anon44746896 @Nick-Hall is the Child Order and Event Order stored in the Gramps Data model as the child_ref_list and event_ref_list ? If so, does the export write the data in that order and so that the import could rebuild the reference lists pres…

Yes, the child_ref_list and event_ref_list contain ordered lists. They should be preserved during an export and subsequent import.

Ok, thanks. I will do some tests. Hopefully find a repeatedable case with a small tree. If that it works for test files, I will have to isolate what is causing the ordering loss on my big tree.

For documenting the next enhancement release: Add drag’n’drop and GUI arrow buttons for re-ordering of Rule in custom filters. Controls order of operations when applying the rules, allowing slower rules to be applied later … after winnowing datasets. …

Re-ordering data in Gramps (topic expansion outline for wiki)

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Re-ordering data in Gramps (topic expansion outline for wiki)

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