What Is a Flag?
Setting/Changing Flags for People
Adding and Deleting Flags
Saving and Seeing Flags in the Family View
Creating a List of People With a Flag Enabled
Setting Flags for Everybody
In Reunion, a flag is an attribute of a person. It has only two values: checked or unchecked. Depending on the flag's name, this could be interpreted as: on or off, true or false, yes or no. If a flag is "checked," it means the attribute is "on," "true," or "yes" for a particular person.
Flags provide a simple tool for working with subsets of your family file. For example, you could use a "Clergy" flag to track relatives who are clergymen, or a "Military" flag to help track relatives who served in the military. Many more examples of flags appear here.
If the current family view includes some of your flags, you'll see them and, unlike other information in the family view, you can check/uncheck flags directly in the family view by clicking their check box buttons. If you don't see flags with check boxes in the family view, then you'll need to configure a view to include them. Click here for more details.
Another place to set flags is in the Flags section of the Edit Person panel. To get there, just click a person's name (a husband or wife in the family view). Then click the Flags button to see the Flags section, shown below.
The Flags section contains a scrolling list in which you check or uncheck flags relating to a person. By default, a small collection of flags will appear in the list.
Unlike the event, fact, and note fields — which are independent for each person — the same list of flags is shown for everybody in your family file.
If the Flags section of the Edit Person panel is already open, you can add to the list of available flags (that will be shown for everybody) by clicking the
button (at the bottom of the list of flags).To add or remove flags, close the Edit Person panel (if it is open) and then....
For more explanation of creating and defining your own flags, click here.
When you are finished setting flags, exit the Edit Person panel by clicking
, clicking , or choosing an item in the navbar or sidebar. Reunion will save your changes.The flags you've edited will appear in the family view if the current family view includes flags. If not, then you need to change or customize the family view.
Creating a List of People With A Flag Enabled
To see a list of everybody with a particular flag enabled...
The Results sidebar will appear, with a list of people who have the selected flag enabled.
To see a list of people who match multiple criteria (for example, all people with a certain surname who also have a particular flag enabled) use the Advanced Find feature.
If you need to set or clear a flag for all people, marked people, or unmarked people...
This opens the Set Flags panel shown below. Using the
button, you can choose a flag or define a new flag on the spot.If you decide to add a new flag (from the abbreviation, narrative form, and GEDCOM tag for the new Flag.
pop-up menu), then a small window will appear. In this window, enter the flag name,