Managing Report Files

Deleting Reports
Editing Reports
Batches of Reports

Deleting Report Files

If you have numerous practice or outdated reports, you should consider deleting some of the report files. To remove unneeded report files...

  1. Quit Reunion.
  2. Locate the report files in the Finder.
    By default, they are located in Home/Documents/Reunion Files/Reports.
  3. Drag the desired files to the trash in the Dock.

If you're unfamiliar with the technique of trashing files, see the Macintosh Help.

How did I get so many report files?

Each time you create a report, Reunion saves a report file to disk in the Report folder specified in the Folder Settings. As you might imagine, you could easily accumulate lots of report files.

To check the number of report files on disk...

  1. Quit Reunion.
  2. Locate the files in the Finder and open the folder where your reports files are being saved.
    By default, they are located in Home/Documents/Reunion Files/Reports.
  3. The number of files should appear in the bottom of the Finder window.

Editing Reports

Reports are considered "output" — they are used to display information previously entered in your family file. Not vice versa. If you edit a report in your word processor, your changes will not be reflected on the corresponding record in Reunion. Any editing (of facts, dates, notes, etc.) you wish to save should be performed in the family file via the various data entry windows in Reunion.

Batches of Reports

Person sheets and family group sheets can be automatically created for marked people. This option and the option to sort reports for marked people appear when you select either...

If you choose to create reports for marked people and the destination is your word processor or Text File, Reunion creates the desired reports, combines them into one file, and saves it to disk. In effect, a single report file is created. If your destination option is your word processor, Reunion will also attempt to open the report in your word processor for display, editing, and printing. The convenience of this feature is that you omit the steps of displaying and saving individual reports.

Here is an example of how to create a batch report — person sheets for all of your direct ancestors.

Here is a similar batch report example — creating a family group sheet for the families of your direct ancestors.